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Kenilworth Castle
Kenilworth castle (War.) combined strong fortifications with palatial residential accommodation. From the first the castle seems to have included extensive water defences and these were enlarged during John's reign when it was in royal hands. The effectiveness of the defences was demonstrated when... Read more |
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Defence of the Realm Acts
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Royal Naval Air Service
Royal Naval Air Service. When the Royal Flying Corps was founded in 1912 it had a military and naval wing. The latter soon adopted the name Royal Naval Air Service, which was officially recognized in July 1914. It then possessed 39 aircraft, 52 seaplanes, and 7 airships. Their main responsibility... Read more |
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Irish Volunteers
Irish (National) Volunteers, a militia founded 25 November 1913 at the Rotunda in Dublin, often seen as a direct response to an article by Eoin MacNeill in the Gaelic League paper Claidheamh Soluis. In this article nationalists were called upon to arm themselves in defence of home rule as the... Read more |
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Abwehr
Abwehr (‘defence’), German military intelligence and counter-intelligence organization formed after the First World War. Although the Versailles settlement of 1919 had prohibited Germany from establishing an intelligence organization, a counter-espionage group was set up within the... Read more |
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veritable
VERITABLE, codename for an operation carried out by Crerar's First Canadian Army, with the British 30th Corps under command, to clear the Germans from east of Nijmegen in the Netherlands south-east to the Lower Rhine in preparation for the Rhine crossings. After a preliminary operation (BLACKCOCK)... Read more |
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Harlech castle
Harlech castle was built for Edward I as one of a series of fortifications intended to secure his conquest of north Wales. Begun in May 1283, it was largely completed in seven years and is one of the greatest achievements of its architect, Master James of St George. It combines powerful defences,... Read more |
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MI5
MI5, British security service which in the Second World War, as in the First, shared with MI6 and the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police the responsibility of evaluating, and advising the British government on, intelligence relating to national security, this being defined as ‘the... Read more |
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Odo of Bayeux
Odo of Bayeux (c.1036–97) was half-brother to Duke William II of Normandy (later William I of England). He was destined for an ecclesiastical career, receiving the bishopric of Bayeux from William in about 1049, when he was perhaps 13 years old, the first of many acts of patronage that... Read more |
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Louis Pierre edouard Bignon
France For the fighting in France, see France, fall of, after this entry; for details of the activities of the Free French,see de Gaulle.1. IntroductionThe declaration of war against Germany at 1700 on 3 September 1939 by the government of Edouard Daladier was received by the French with a... Read more |
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