Mutiny Act Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
... Act Before the Glorious Revolution , James II had collected a large army on Hounslow Heath to intimidate London. The Bill of Rights in 1689 declared that a standing army in peacetime was illegal without parliamentary consent and the procedure was adopted of passing an annual Mutiny Act which authorized the imposition of military...
Mutiny Act Reference library
J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
... Act . Before the Glorious Revolution , James II had collected a large army on Hounslow Heath to intimidate London. The Bill of Rights in 1689 declared that a standing army in peacetime was illegal without parliamentary consent and the procedure was adopted of passing an annual Mutiny Act which authorized the imposition of military discipline. The navy had been under statutory authority since 1661 and was less politically delicate since the fleet could hardly be used to threaten public liberties. In 1784 the Fox–North coalition toyed with the...
Royal Titles Act
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James W. C. Pennington
Slave Resistance
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Royal Titles Act Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
...Titles Act , 1876 . After the Indian mutiny in 1857 , sovereignty in India was transferred to the crown and the governor‐general became a viceroy. The elevation of Wilhelm I to be Emperor (of Germany) seems to have upset Victoria, who asked her private secretary in 1873 , ‘why have I never officially assumed this title?’ The change of prime minister in 1874 from Gladstone to Disraeli enabled the measure to go ahead. By the Royal Titles Act (39 & 40 Vic. c. 10) the queen became Empress of...
East India Company Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
...after the battle of Plassey in 1757 , and the defeat of the Maratha empire in 1818 gave it undisputed supremacy. Territorial conquest, however, brought about more direct parliamentary control through the Regulation Act of 1773 and the India Act of 1784 . It survived as a quasi‐department of the British state until the Indian mutiny of 1857 , whereafter it was abolished and its powers vested in a secretary of state for...
Indian Mutiny Reference library
Lynne Macedo
The Oxford Companion to Black British History
...to recapture the city until 16 March 1858 . On 20 September 1857 Delhi was stormed by the British, but it was not until the following June that the Mutiny was finally ended with the decisive British victory at Gwalior. After Gwalior all mutineers and those suspected, often incorrectly, of aiding them were dealt the most severe penalties by the British authorities. The EIC was then abolished by an Act of Parliament and the government of India was transferred to the Crown. As a further precaution the Indian Army was reorganized, with the sepoys relegated...
Bentinck, Lord William Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
...Lord William ( 1774–1839 ). Soldier and administrator . In 1803 he became governor of Madras but was recalled after being held responsible for the sepoy mutiny at Velore in July 1806 . He subsequently saw action in the Mediterranean, commanding the British forces in Sicily ( 1811 ) and conducting a successful expedition against Genoa ( 1814 ). From 1827 to 1835 Bentinck acted as governor‐general of Bengal. He instituted reforms to eradicate debts, reorganized the legal system, abolishing such practices as suttee (widow‐burning), improved...
legislative independence Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
... Grattan 's amendment to the address to the throne asserting Ireland's constitutional rights. The British Declaratory Act was repealed on 21 June , Yelverton's Act ( 27 July ) modified Poynings's Law , and other measures secured the independence of judges, declared the Irish House of Lords a court of final appeal, and made the legal basis of army discipline dependent on regular parliamentary renewal by limiting the duration of the Mutiny Act. Contemporaries, and later constitutional nationalists, liked to speak of the ‘constitution of 1782’. In fact the...
Dungannon, conventions of Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...), an attempt to revive the flagging patriot agitation, was attended by delegates from less than half the Ulster Volunteer corps. Its resolutions asserted the exclusive legislative authority of the Irish parliament and called for the amendment of Poyning's Law , a renewable mutiny act (to secure parliamentary control of the army), and security of tenure for judges. Over the next two months these resolutions were endorsed by numerous other public gatherings. However, it remains unclear how far this renewed agitation, as opposed to the fall of Lord North's...
Washington, Madison Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
...interference of the British in America's lawful coastal trade. Just two years after the Amistad slave ship revolt, southern sensitivities were high. The Supreme Court had, in that case, ruled that the slaves had been illegally imported from Africa and should be set free, as the mutiny had occurred in Cuban waters and Spain had abolished the African slave trade in 1820 . To southerners, the crucial difference was that the Amistad slaves had been en route illegally, whereas the Creole slaves were part of a legally sanctioned trade. The U.S. Secretary of...
Morant Bay rebellion Reference library
John Gilmore
The Oxford Companion to Black British History
...not all) of those killed by the rebels were white, while the rebels themselves and the victims of the official repression were black. Governor Eyre claimed that he had acted swiftly to prevent what would otherwise have been a wholesale massacre of the island's white population by the rebels and a recurrence of the Haitian Revolution , while the more recent events of the Indian Mutiny were widely seen as offering another parallel. When the news reached Britain, government and public opinion initially favoured Eyre, but as details of the campaign of...
Mboro, Clement (1920) Reference library
matthew leriche
Dictionary of African Biography
...that violence should be avoided. When the 1955 Torit Mutiny began to spark violent discontent in sections of eastern Equatoria, Mboro worked very hard to avoid a similar mutiny of soldiers and discontent in Bahr al-Ghazal, where he was assistant district commissioner. Thus, the emergent Anyanya forces that were gaining support throughout Equatoria did not fare as well in Bahr al-Ghazal in those initial years. In a twist, and despite working to keep violence to its minimum and to avert mutiny in his area, for his efforts Mboro was arrested and eventually...
Chitepo, Herbert (1923) Reference library
luise white
Dictionary of African Biography
...expanded in Zambia and ZANLA tripled in size. There were constant tensions between moderates and radicals, between new recruits and seasoned cadres, and between educated men and youths who had left school to join the struggle. In December 1974 cadres at the front in Mozambique mutinied. With considerable violence, they marched on Lusaka, where Chitepo and other ZANU officials were involved in talks that Zambia, pressured by South Africa and the United States, had hoped would make Zimbabwe’s liberation armies find common ground. Chitepo was resistant to...
army Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
...came to a head in the reign of James II and played a part in his overthrow. Thereafter the 1689 Declaration of Rights established that a standing army was illegal without Parliament's approval, granted every year in the Mutiny Act until 1953 , when this was replaced by a five‐yearly Armed Forces Act. Particularly after the Act of Union with Scotland of 1707 , and the subsequent defeat of Jacobite uprisings, a large army at home was not required. Instead, the British needed a minimum force to keep order, garrisons for their overseas possessions,...
army Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...by the 1780s. The Catholic Relief Act of 1793 officially permitted Catholics to be enlisted in the ranks and to hold commissions. The Act of Union amalgamated the Irish and British military establishments. However, assimilation was not complete until 1822 when the Irish barrack boards were finally abolished. Prior to this a number of other difficulties had arisen, not least the status of Irish Catholic officers, who held their commissions under the Irish act of 1793 and had to wait for the Army Indemnity Act ( 1817 ) to confirm that these could...
