A Soldier's History
Author : Great Britain Army
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : Great Britain Army
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 1988
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 14,80 MB
Release : 1973*
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Gt. Brit. War Office. Royal Highland Fusiliers
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Great Britain. Army. Royal Highland Fusiliers
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 1960*
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Author : Great Britain. Army. Royal Highland Fusiliers
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 1973*
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Author : Walter - Bean
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Page : 11 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Trevor Royle
Publisher : Random House
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1780572522
The Royal Highland Fusiliers came into being in 1959 as a result of the amalgamation of two regiments, both of which had strong connections with Glasgow and the west of Scotland: The Royal Scots Fusiliers, founded in 1678 by Charles Erskine, fifth Earl of Mar; and The Highland Light Infantry, or HLI, created in 1881 as a result of the amalgamation of the 71st Highlanders and the 74th Highlanders. Two distinctive infantry traditions can be found in the names of these regiments, which have helped to form the line infantry regiments of the British Army. Fusiliers were armed with the flintlock fusil instead of the more common matchlock musket, and light infantry came into being during the Napoleonic Wars to provide the army with a corps of skirmishing sharpshooters similar to Austrian and German Jäger troops. Amongst those who have served as fusiliers or light infantrymen are Hugh Trenchard, who became Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Winston Churchill and David Niven, who joined the HLI from Sandhurst in the inter-war years. All these traditions and personalities went into the making of a regiment whose name lives on in the 2nd battalion of The Royal Regiment of Scotland, which was formed in 2006 as a result of the restructuring of the infantry regiments of the British Army.
Author : Great Britain. Army. Royal Highland Fusiliers
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File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
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Page : 11 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 1991
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