Charles
II
James II
Oliver
Cromwell
New Model
Army
General
George Monck
"Fifth
Monarchy Men"
Lord General's
Regiment of Foot Guards (Coldstream Guards)
Catherine
of Braganza
Tangier
Duke of Monmouth
William III
Glorious
Revolution
Louis XIV
John Graham
of Claverhouse ("Bonnie Dundee")
War of
the League of Augsburg ("King William's War")
Duke of
Siege of
Week
2.
War of
Spanish Succession
Captain-General
John Churchill, Duke of
Louis XIV
Philip
of
Leopold
I
Grand
Regiment of Horse (Cavalry)
Regiment of Foot (Infantry)
Dragoons
Board of
Ordnance
Platoon Fire
Louis William,
Margrave of
Maximilian,
the Elector of
Marshal
Duke Francois de Villeroi
Marshal
Count Camille de Tallard
Week
3. George I, George II, and the War of Austrian Succession, 1713-47
George I
John Erskine, Earl of Mar
"The Fifteen"
Prince
James Francis Edward Stuart ("Old Pretender")
George
II
Maria Teresa
of
Frederick
II of
Pragmatic
Army
Duc de
Noailles
William
Augustus, the Duke of
Marshal
Count Maurice de Saxe
Fontenoy
Lieutenant
Colonel Lord Charles Hay
Prince
Charles Edward Stuart ("Young Pretender" or "Bonnie Prince Charlie")
"The
Forty-Five"
Lieutenant
General Sir John Cope
Prestonpans
Lieutenant
General George Murray
Lieutenant
General Henry Hawley
The Battle of Minden, August 1, 1759, where six British and three
Hanoverian infantry battalions
drove off masses of French cavalry and pierced the middle of the
enemy line.
Week
4. The Seven Years War, 1754-63
Seven Years
War
Lieutenant
Colonel George Washington
Major General
Edward Braddock
Braddock's
Defeat (or Battle of the Monongahela)
Marquis
de Montcalm
William
Pitt the Elder
Major General
James Abercromby
Lord George
Augustus Howe
Major General
Jeffrey Amherst
Siege of
Louisbourg
Major General
James Wolfe
Siege of
Lieutenant
Colonel William Howe
Prince
Ferdinand of
Marquis
Louis de Contades
General
Spörcken
Lieutenant
General George, Lord Sackville
Lieutenant
General John Manners, Marquis of
Honorable
East India Company
Surajah
Dowla
Robert
Clive
A portrait miniature of an unknown officer of the 17th
Regiment of Foot, circa 1775. The 17th Foot was sent
from Ireland to fight in the Thirteen Colonies at the
outset of the American War of Independence.
Lieutenant
General Thomas Gage
Lord George
Germain (a.k.a. Lord George Sackville)
General
Sir William Howe
General
George Washington
Governor
Sir Guy Carleton
Lieutenant
General John Burgoyne
Major General
Horatio Gates
Siege of
Siege of
Lieutenant
General Sir Henry Clinton
Siege of
Lieutenant
General Charles, Second Earl Cornwallis
Battle
of King's Mountain
Major General
Nathanael Greene
Siege of
Comte de Rochambeau
Week
4. The Wars against the Mahrattas and
Hyder Ali
Tipu Sultan
Governor
Charles, Lord Cornwallis
Third
Governor
General Richard Wellesley (Lord Mornington)
General
George Harris
Siege of
Seringapatam
Major General
David Baird
Baji Rao
II
Major General
Arthur Wellesley
Week
5. Early Campaigns against Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Frederick
Augustus, Duke of
General
Jean Nicolas Houchard
Purchase
System
Light Infantry
95th
Rifles
Major General
Sir John Moore
Shorncliffe
Camp
"Blue Water" Policy
General
Sir Ralph Abercromby
General
Napoleon Bonaparte
Admiral
Horatio Nelson
(Left) Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton, one of the Duke of Wellington's
hardest
fighting generals in the Iberian Peninsula who fell at the Battle
of Waterloo, June 18,
1815. (Right) A dapper officer of the 95th Rifles, the elite
regiment that greatly
enhanced the Duke of Wellington's skirmishing capacity in both the
Peninsular War
and Waterloo.
William Pitt the Younger
Napoleon I
General
Andoche Junot
King Joseph
(Bonaparte) of
Lieutenant
General Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Viscount Wellington, and still later
the Duke of Wellington)
Convention
of Cintra
Lieutenant
General Sir John Moore
Marshal
Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult
Battle
of Corunna
General
Gregorio de la Cuesta
Marshal
Claude P. Victor
Battle
of Talavera
General
William C. Beresford
Caçadores
Lieutenant
Colonel Henry Shrapnel
Marshal
Andre Massena
General
Auguste F. Marmont
Siege of
6. Peacetime
Economy and the Conquest of
Lord Hastings
Conquest
of
First Afghan War
Shah Shujah
Major General
William G. K. Elphinstone
Major General
Sir George Pollock
First Sikh
War
Ranjit
Singh
Khalsa
General
Sir Hugh Gough
General
Harry Smith
Treaty
of
Second
Sikh War
British troops search a battlefield for their wounded during the
Indian Mutiny of 1857-58.
Wounded mutineeers were usually executed on the spot.
Crimean
War
Czar Nicholas
I
Field Marshal
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, First Baron Raglan
Prince
Menschicoff
"Thin Red
Line"
Charge
of the Heavy Brigade
Charge
of the Light Brigade
Siege of
William
Howard Russell
Colonel
Carmichael Smyth
3rd
Light Cavalry
Siege of
Chief Commissioner
John Lawrence
General
Sir Hugh Wheeler
Nana Sahib
Sir Henry
Lawrence
Siege of
Lord Canning
Major General
Henry Havelock (later Sir Henry Havelock)
Relief
of
General
Sir Colin Campbell
Brigadier
General Archdale Wilson
Brigadier
General John Nicholson
Sir Hugh
Rose