Hist. 2803
SOLDIERS, WARS, AND SOCIETY: THE BRITISH ARMY
British infantrymen on maneuvers in England, circa 1880.
Textbook Terms
for the Final Exam
Edward Cardwell
Localization Bill of 1872
Hugh Childers
Field Marshal Garnet Joseph, Viscount Wolseley
The Soldier's Pocket Book
Lord Esher
Richard Burdon Haldane
Territorial Force
Officers' Training Corps (OTC)
Major General Horatio Herbert Kitchener
Khalifa
Ayub Khan
Maiwand
General Sir Frederick Roberts
Colonel T. E. Lawrence
Aqaba
Pals Battalions
"Shells Scandal"
Munitions of War Act
David Lloyd George
Ministry of Munitions
Military Service Act of 1916
Military Service Act (No. 2) of 1918
A wounded Canadian soldier is carried to the rear during the bitter fighting at Passchendaele, November 1917.
J. F. C. Fuller
B. H. Liddell Hart
Neville Chamberlain
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Lt. Gen. Miles Dempsey
Operation MARKET GARDEN
Lt. Col. John Frost
Operation PLUNDER
Lt. Gen. Sir William Slim
Maj. Orde Wingate
Kohima
Imphal
Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke
National Service Act (No. 2) of 1941
Auxiliary Territorial Service
General Sir Edmund Ironside
"Colonel Blimp"
P'eng Te-huai
1st Commonwealth Division
Malayan Races Liberation Army
Operation MUSKETEER
British Army of the Rhine (BAOR)
Duncan Sandys
Special Air Service (SAS)
22 SAS
David Stirling
Options for Change
Essay Questions
for the Final Exam
1) Why were Boer farmers able to repeatedly defeat and humilate trained British regulars in the First Boer War of 1880-81 and the Second Boer War of 1899-1902?
2) What major reforms did Lord Edward Cardwell and Lord Richard Burdon Haldane try to introduce to the British Army during their respective terms as Secretary of State for War, and what effects did those reforms have on the army and its performance?
3)What kind of general was Sir Douglas Haig during World War I?What aspects of his military thinking and conduct smacked more of the 19th century than the 20th?
4)What factors help account for the poor performance of so many British generals from the start of World War I to its end?
5)Why was the massive British attack along the River Somme on July 1, 1916, such a colossal failure and why did it result in so many British casualties?
6)How
did the British Army improve its battlefield performance in
7)How did Field Marshal Herbert, Lord Kitchener, meddle with Richard Burdon Haldane's prewar plans for the British Expeditionary Force and British manpower mobilization immediately after he became Secretary of State for War at the start of World War I?
8)What failings did Sir John French exhibit during his tenure as the first commander of the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-15?How did he finally lose his job?
9)Why
did the British attempt to knock
10)What caused the stagnation and decay that afflicted the British Army in the two decades that followed World War I, a situation that inhibited its performance in the first few years of World War II?
11)What were Bernard Law Montgomery's strengths and weaknesses as both a general and a man as seen in his conduct during World War II?
12)What was the purpose of Operation MARKET GARDEN, September 17-26, 1944, and why did it fail?
13)Summarize the British Army's involvement in the Korean War and that conflict's impact on British military policy.
14)How
did the British Army win its long, twelve-year war (1948-60) against Chin Peng
and his Communist Malay Races Army in the jungles of