About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Commandants of Sandhurst, Commander-in-Chief, North America, Chief of the General Staff, Commander-in-Chief, India, Aldershot Command, Hugh Stockwell, Hew Pike, Chief Royal Engineer, Northern Command, Jack Harman, Major-General commanding the Household Division, Master-General of the Ordnance, Philip Ward, John Mogg, Patrick Marriott, Robert Ford, Military Secretary, Adjutant-General to the Forces, Commander British Forces in Hong Kong, Simon Cooper, Quartermaster-General to the Forces, List of Commandants of Sandhurst, Southern Command, Scottish Command, George Gordon-Lennox, Frederick Dobson Middleton, Western Command, Alistair Irwin, Peter Hunt, Bertie Fisher, Andrew Ritchie, Eastern Command, Richard Vickers, Peter Graham, List of Commandants of Berlin Sectors, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, Francis Matthews, Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces, Charles Corkran, Master Gunner, St James's Park, Reginald May, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, David Rutherford-Jones, Jack Deverell, Ralph Eastwood, Geoffrey Howlett, Aylmer Cameron, Storekeeper of the Ordnance, Director Special Forces, Military Secretary to the India Office, Philip Trousdell, General Officer Commanding the Forces, Commander Field Army, Stuart Peter Rolt, Commander Regional Forces, Treasurer of the Ordnance. Excerpt: The office of Commander-in-Chief, North America was a military position of the British Army. Established in 1755 in the early years of the Seven Years' War, holders of the post were generally responsible for land-based military personnel and activities in and around those parts of North America that Great Britain either controlled or contested. The post continued to exist until 1775, when Lieutenant-General Thomas Gage, the last holder of the post, was replaced early in the American War of Independence. The post's responsibilities were then divi...
