The British Army in the Age of Victoria

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Introduction

• The Role of the Victorian Army
• Cardwell's Army Reforms, 1870-81
• The Organisation of the British Army
• The Rank Marks of the British Army
• Colonel Herbert Harrington Roberts' reminiscences of mid-Victorian army life
• Uniforms of the British Army in 1855
• "Volunteer Sham Fight on Whit Monday"

Aldershot

• Aldershot Military Town, Hampshire
• The Prince Consort's Library, Aldershot
• Royal Garrison Church of All Saints, Aldershot

Conflict at home and abroad

• The Peterloo Riots and Massacre (pre-Victorian)
• The Chinese Opium Wars, 1839-60
• The Crimean War, 1853-56
• The Indian Mutiny of 1857
• Zulu War of 1879
• The Boer Wars of 1880-81 and 1889-1902
• John Hope's Water Rates

The Army and literature

• Rudyard Kipling, poet laureate of the common soldier

The British Military and the visual arts

• The Artists Rifles
• War Monuments
• Waterloo — Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler), England's greatest military painter
• The Army in British India
• The Boer War — English and Boer views
• The Crimean War
• The British Navy

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Last modified 21 November 2019