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  • Thumbnail for Pattern 1853 Enfield
    The Enfield Pattern 1853 rifle-musket (also known as the Pattern 1853 Enfield, P53 Enfield, and Enfield rifle-musket) was a .577 calibre Minié-type muzzle-loading...
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  • following day. United Kingdom portal British and U.S. military ranks compared British Army Other Ranks rank insignia British Army officer rank insignia "Ranks"...
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  • 1920 major's sleeve rank insignia (general pattern) 1902 to 1920 major's sleeve rank insignia (Scottish pattern) During World War I, some officers took to...
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  • following day. 1856 to 1880 captain's rank insignia 1881 to 1902 captain's rank insignia 1902 to 1920 captain's rank insignia (general pattern) 1902 to 1920...
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  • Thumbnail for British military rifles
    by British light infantry regiments in the Seven Years' War. In January 1776, 1,000 rifles were ordered to be built for the British Army. A pattern by...
    49 KB (6,605 words) - 23:25, 7 October 2024
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    the Indian pattern, was manufactured in British India from 1787 to 1832, for use by officers of the East India Trading Company and British Indian Cavalry...
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  • Thumbnail for British Empire
    British Empire became the global hegemon was later described as Pax Britannica (Latin for "British Peace"). Alongside the formal control that Britain...
    156 KB (17,879 words) - 21:25, 7 November 2024
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    Burberry (category British companies established in 1856)
    Burberry Group plc is a British luxury fashion house established in 1856 by Thomas Burberry and headquartered in London, England. It designs and distributes...
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    A pattern coin is a coin which has not been approved for release, but produced to evaluate a proposed coin design. They are often off-metal strike (using...
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    "Crimean War 1853–1856". Reader's Guide to British History. 1: 318–319. Markovits, Stefanie (2009). The Crimean War in the British Imagination. Cambridge...
    137 KB (17,372 words) - 13:35, 3 November 2024
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    The British Raj (/rɑːdʒ/ RAHJ; from Hindustani rāj, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, lasting...
    273 KB (29,511 words) - 23:38, 7 November 2024
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    British Railways' by Dr Richard Beeching in March 1963. The East Somerset Railway Company was incorporated under the East Somerset Railway Act 1856 (19...
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  • Colonel (Col) is a rank of the British Army and Royal Marines, ranking below brigadier, and above lieutenant colonel. British colonels are not usually field...
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  • Thumbnail for 1860s replacement of the British copper coinage
    circulation. The state of the copper coinage was ascertained by a survey in 1856 and 1857 in connection with the Royal Commission on Decimal Coinage. Though...
    32 KB (4,131 words) - 00:05, 30 October 2024
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    British and French ships and, if necessary, to complete their destruction. The Royal Marines were the last to leave Gallipoli, replacing both British...
    102 KB (10,096 words) - 12:01, 7 November 2024
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    Kong wore Canadian pattern KD; the I Canadian Corps troops in Italy wore KD supplied in theatre by the British, generally of British, Indian or US (War...
    54 KB (6,998 words) - 14:32, 24 October 2024
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    a three-fold pattern within the gem, reflect incoming light into the star pattern. Mineralogist and Tiffany gem expert George Kunz (1856–1932) was commissioned...
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  • Thumbnail for List of former equipment of the New Zealand Army
    "Enfield Pattern 1853 Rifle Musket". Collections Online. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 2022-05-25. "Enfield Pattern 1856 Rifle Musket...
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  • Thumbnail for Royal Small Arms Factory
    manufactured at Enfield before 1853, see British military rifles#Early Enfield rifles The RSAF, Enfield, was famous for its Pattern Room which was a collection, or...
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  • Universities in British Overseas Territories are not considered UK Universities and are not recognised as UK degree-awarding bodies by the British government...
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