Ordnance, 37
Oudenaarde, battle of, 34
Palestine, 87, 117, 119, 122, 128, 146
Parliament, 13, 20, 24–27, 30, 51
Passchendaele, battle of, 113, 119, 121
Peasants’ Revolt, 14
Peiwar, Kotal, battle of, 93
Persia (Iran), 84
Philadelphia, 53, 56
Pinkie, battle of, 16
Pitt, William, the Elder, 134
Plymouth, 37, 62
Poitiers, battle of, 12
Polaris missiles, 151
Police, 75
Pollen, A.J., 108–9
Pontiac’s War, 45
Portsmouth, 70, 89
Prestonpans, battle of, 38
Quebec, 42, 52, 60
Quiberon Bay, battle of, 42
Radcot Bridge, battle of, 14
Railways, 96
Ramillies, battle of, 34
Recruitment, 30–32, 38–39, 110, 169
Revolution Settlement, 30
Richard I, 14
Richard II, 14
Richard III, 15
Roberts, Frederick, Earl, 92–93, 100
Romans, 4–6
Roses, Wars of the, 15–16
Roucoux, battle of, 38
Russell, William Howard, 81
Russia, 89
Russian Civil War, 108, 122
Salamanca, battle of, 67–68
Sauchieburn, battle of, 16
Saxon Shore, 6
Saxons, 6
Scotland, 91, 107
Sedgemoor, battle of, 26
Sevastopol, 80–81
Seven Years’ War, 40–44
Shrewsbury, battle of, 14
Sikh Wars, 79–80
Singapore, 136–37, 149–50, 155
Somaliland, 95–98, 118, 121–22, 135,
145–46
Somme, battle of the, 113–14, 121
South Africa, 80
Soviet Union, 139–41, 145–46
Spanish Succession, War of the, 30,
33–36
Spurs, battle of the, 17
St. Quentin, battle of, 18
St. Vincent, 49
Stamford Bridge, battle of, 8
Standard, battle of the, 9
Stephen, King, 13, 15
Stoke, battle of, 15
Strikes, 128
Submarines, 52, 116–17, 139, 142, 144,
171
Sudan, 94–98, 118
Suez Canal, 84, 86, 117–18
Suez Crisis, 147–49, 157, 164
Syria, 87, 134
Talavera, battle of, 67
Tanks, 115, 119, 122, 124, 128–29, 135,
161
Tel-el-Kebir, battle of, 94
Terrorism, 154–55, 167
Thatcher, Margaret, 155, 158
Tibet, 102
Towton, battle of, 15
Trafalgar, battle of, 69–70
United States of America, 85, 89, 102–
3, 115–17, 124–25, 130, 136, 139–40,
145, 151–52, 157–60, 163–64, 166
Victoria Cross, 99
Vietnam War, 146–47, 149, 172
Vikings, 7–8
Vimeiro, battle of, 67
Vitoria, battle of, 67–68
Wandewash, battle of, 43
War of 1812, 70–72, 87
Warrior, 88
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