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unusual facts about English Army


Henry Jones of Oxfordshire

In September 1667 Parliament passed an act that forbade Roman Catholics being officers in the English Army and on the 26th of that month all Roman Catholics officers were dismissed.



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1380s in England

5 August - Battle of Otterburn: a Scottish army, led by James Douglas, defeats an English army, capturing the their leader, Harry Hotspur.

Alfred Pollard

Alfred Oliver Pollard, English Army Officer, decorated World War I hero and author

Anthony Morgan

Anthony Morgan of Freshwater (died 1729) English army officer, a Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Wight, and a Member of Parliament.

Battle of Morlaix

Kelly DeVries 'Infantry Warfare in the Early 14th. Century' seems to follow the existing chronicle sources more closely than the Burne and Sumption and he gives a different account of the deployment of the English army.

Battle of Stamford Bridge

Outside the city they defeated a northern English army led by Edwin, Earl of Mercia and his brother Morcar, Earl of Northumbria at the Battle of Fulford on 20 September.

Ferniehirst Castle

An English army led by the Duke of Rutland recaptured the castle in June 1549, but the war was nearly over.

George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham

In 1544, he occupied a high position in the English army that invaded Scotland; later that year, he was appointed commanding officer of English-controlled Calais.

Gwenllian of Wales

A few months after Gwenllian's birth, north Wales was encircled by the English army of King Edward I.

James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt

The two chief staff officers, Generals Estcourt and Airey, were held by the public to be especially responsible for the sufferings of the English army during the first winter in the Crimea; but Lord Raglan defended them in the strongest terms in his despatches of 15 January and 3 March 1855.

John Calcraft

John Calcraft the elder (1726 – 23 August 1772), of Rempstone in Dorset and Ingress in Kent, was an English army agent and politician.

Sir George Rawdon, 1st Baronet

Sir George Rawdon, 1st Baronet (1604–1684), of Moira, County Down which he founded, was an English army officer and politician.

William Elliot

William Elliot of Wells (1696–1764), English army officer, courtier and MP