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THE NEW ANNUAL ARMY LIST, MILITIA LIST, 1854: (BEING THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL VOLUME), CONTAINING THE DATES OF COMMISSIONS, AND A STATEMENT OF THE WAR SERVICES AND WOUNDS OF NEARLY EVERY OFFICER IN THE ARMY, ORDNANCE, AND MARINES. CORRECTED TO 30 December 1853. WITH AN INDEX. MAJOR H. G. HART, 49TH REGT. JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, LONDON 1854 Ripley, Tim (10 December 2008). "UK Army Air Corps received Dauphins". Jane's Defence Weekly. 45 (50): 10. After 1700, British continental policy was to contain expansion by competing powers such as France and Spain. Although Spain was the dominant global power during the previous two centuries and the chief threat to England's early transatlantic ambitions, its influence was now waning. The territorial ambitions of the French, however, led to the War of the Spanish Succession [36] and the Napoleonic Wars. [37] British Army Training and Support Unit Belize: The British Army has maintained a presence in Belize since its independence. Currently the British Army Training Support Unit in Belize enables close country and tropical environment training to troops from the UK and international partners. [180] a b Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "1. – New Zealand wars – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand". www.teara.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 3 April 2017 . Retrieved 17 March 2017.

Omani-British Joint Training Area: A training area for combined arms battlegroup training, jointly maintained with the Royal Army of Oman. [190] In 1939, estimates of the Army's strength range between 174,000 and 200,000 soldiers, smaller than that of Portugal's, which ranked it 17th or 19th in the world in size. General George C. Marshall became Army chief of staff in September 1939 and set about expanding and modernizing the Army in preparation for war. [36] [37] U.S. soldiers hunting for Japanese infiltrators during the Bougainville Campaign UK Armed Forces Quarterly Manning Report (PDF). United Kingdom: Ministry of Defence. 4 March 2010. p.13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2014 . Retrieved 5 July 2016. (Table 2a – Strength of UK Armed Forces1

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