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prm502
Posts : 30 Join date : 2009-09-29
| Subject: Defenders of Empire? Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:38 am | |
| Hey everyone, bit of an abstract question I know, but I'm just curious about the 'defenders of empire' tag often applied to the soldiery. Was there an increased and general expectation that the private soldier would personally embrace the principles of imperial expansion? After all, until the Battle of Isandlwana, very few people seem to have been aware of events in Zululand! |
| | | Saul David 1879
Posts : 527 Join date : 2009-02-28
| Subject: Re: Defenders of Empire? Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:56 pm | |
| I expect every soldier was expected to embrace the principles of imperial expansion. Whether or not they did would have to be down to the individual soldier. Some idea of the British 'imperial development across the globe' under Victoria can be judged from reading a list of the 'small colonial wars' (as they have euphemistically been called) undertaken during Victoria's reign:
Anti-colonial revolt in Canada, 1837 Capture of Aden, 1838 First Afghan War, 1838-42 Against Boers, South Africa, 1838-48 Opium Wars in China, 1839-42 War in the Levant, 1840 War in Afghanistan, 1842 Conquest of Sind, India, 1843 Gwalior War, India, 1843 First Sikh War, India, 1845-6 Against Native Africans, South Africa, 1846-52 North-West Frontier of India, 1847-54 Second Sikh War, India, 1848-9 Second Burmese War, 1852 Eureka Stockade, Australia, 1854 War with Persia, 1856-7 North-West Frontier of India, 1858-67 Storming of the Taku Forts, China, 1859-60 Maori Wars, New Zealand, 1861-4 Operations in Sikkim, India, 1861 Ambela Expedition, 1863 Yokohama, Japan, 1864-5 Bhutan Expedition, 1865 Expedition to Abyssinia, 1868 Red River Expedition, Canada, 1870 Ashanti War, West Africa, 1874 Expedition to Perak, Malaya, 1875-6 Galekas & Gaikas war, Cape Colony, 1877 North-West Frontier, India, 1878-9 Second Afghan War, 1878 Third Afghan War, 1879 Zulu War, 1879 North-West Frontier of India, 1880-4 Transvaal Revolt or First Boer War, 1880-1 Bombardment of Alexandria, 1882 Expedition to the Sudan, 1884-5 Third Burmese War, 1885 Suakin Expedition, Sudan, 1885 End of the Nile Campaign, 1885 North-West Frontier of India, 1888-92 Minor Operations in India, 1888-94 Siege & Relief of Chitral, India, 1895 Mashonaland Rising, East Africa, 1896 Re-Conquest of Egypt, 1896-8 Tirah Expeditionary Force, India, 1897-8 North-West Frontier of India, 1897-8 Boxer Rising, China, 1900-1 |
| | | Frank Allewell
Posts : 8572 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 77 Location : Cape Town South Africa
| Subject: Re: Defenders of Empire? Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:12 pm | |
| And it still took them untill the 1960's to win the World Cup. |
| | | Mr Greaves
Posts : 747 Join date : 2009-10-18
| Subject: Re: Defenders of Empire? Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:02 pm | |
| What a day that was. |
| | | garywilson1
Posts : 374 Join date : 2009-01-22 Age : 61 Location : Timisoara , Romania
| Subject: Re: Defenders of Empire? Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:09 am | |
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| | | Chelmsfordthescapegoat
Posts : 2593 Join date : 2009-04-24
| Subject: Re: Defenders of Empire? Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:00 pm | |
| Deleted by Admin. CTSG I have sent you a PM. |
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