Composition of the Army

Question 1

Men at Arms

Answer 1

Dismounted Knights would sometimes fight on foot

Question 2

Significance of Men at Arms?

Answer 2

They would serve as heavy, well armoured ‘elite’ infantry and would be used to hold vulnerable positions or as a hammer to smash through the oppositions lines.

Question 3

Who used the men at arms?

Answer 3

A strategy used heavily by the English troops in their battles against France in the middle ages.

Question 4

Advantages of pikemen?

Answer 4

. Easy to train and use
. effective against cavalry

Question 5

Mounted Knights?

Answer 5

. used by richer people

Question 6

Ratio of cavalry?

Answer 6

1:2 in 1250 to 1:10 in the 1440s

Question 7

What were pikes replaced by?

Answer 7

bayonet

Question 8

Schiltron

Answer 8

A circular formation of pike men with the pike
facing outside forming an impenetrable circle
of pikes

Question 9

What was a bombard

Answer 9

A type of cannon used to fire large (180kg)
solid stone balls at Castle walls

Question 10

How many men were there by the end of the 17th century?

Answer 10

130,000

Question 11

Role of artillery 1500-1700?

Answer 11

1500- used in sieges
1700- used on battlefields

Question 12

Role of battle of Bicocca

Answer 12

1522
. spanish musketeers defeated swiss pikemen

Question 13

Who were the dragoons?

Answer 13

Mounted infantry Armed with muskets, but riding horses

Question 14

Role of Infantry 1700-1900?

Answer 14

.75% of the Army
. growing to 80% by 1850

Question 15

What was the Brown Bess musket?

Answer 15

It was a muzzle loaded flintlock musket
. could fire a 30g ball of lead
. an effective range of around 100 metres.

Question 16

What did it partner with?

Answer 16

In close combat or in dealing with enemy cavalry a socket bayonet would be attached

Question 17

Role of cavalry 1700-1900?

Answer 17

20% of the Army in 1700
declining to 15% by 1850

Question 18

Light cavalry?

Answer 18

.armed with sabres
.tended to focus on scouting, raiding and gaining intelligence on enemy locations

Question 19

Heavy cavalry?

Answer 19

.armed with swords
. used in a break-through tactic on the battlefield

Question 20

Dragoons in 1700-1900?

Answer 20

Dragoons were still used although they were phased out during the period

Question 21

Artillery in 1700-1900?

Answer 21

5% of the army

Question 22

What were cannons equipped with?
1700-1900

Answer 22

with rifled barrels which would launch artillery shells up to 5 kilometres

Question 23

Size of army change 1849-1899

Answer 23

115,000 in 1849 to 250,000 in 1899.

Question 24

Change in army size 1900-?

Answer 24

This is down to technology being
able to do more and more things
that human beings can do

Question 25

Infantry in 2015?

Answer 25

25% of british army

Question 26

Cavalry in 1914?

Answer 26

10%

Question 27

What replaced cavalry? How many of them in 2015?

Answer 27

.tanks .10%

Question 28

Artillery in 1914 vs 2015?

Answer 28

20% 10%

Question 29

What are specialist troops?

Answer 29

.doctors .engineers .electrcians

Question 30

Specialist troops 1914v2015?

Answer 30

5%-55%

Question 31

Haldane's reforms?

Answer 31

1908 - brouhght in after poor performance in Boer War - permanent force of 150,000 that could sent abroad fast. - 270,000 part time

Question 32

Modern army?

Answer 32

82,000 full time 30,000 part time

Question 33

1940 EODs?

Answer 33

-bomb disposal - 25 units - cleared 420 bombs in 3 months -

Question 34

1945 EODs?

Answer 34

-109 units - defused 25,000

Question 35

2015 EODs?

Answer 35

2000 300 sniffer dogs

Question 36

Army service corps?

Answer 36

1900- provided supplies 1915- 300,000 men 10% of army

Question 37

Role of army service corps at D-Day

Answer 37

4300 ships transported 130,000 men and 20,000 vehicles in one day

Question 38

1993 change?

Answer 38

Royal Logistics corps 15% of army

Question 39

role of RLC in Iraq?

Answer 39

supplied 45,000 with food .73 ships