Awarded for Valour_ A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of the British Concept of Heroism
32 AWARDED FOR VALOUR plans for offensive operations in the Black Sea. After one of his customary exhibitions of political pouti ...
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF HEROISM IN BRITAIN 33 Others were concerned with Panmure’s intellectual capacity. Lord Clarendon wro ...
34 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Civil/Military Army Board similar to the Admiralty. Victoria tried to barter her support for the measure i ...
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF HEROISM IN BRITAIN 35 a British ‘Order of Merit’ similar to the Médaille Militaire recently created ...
36 AWARDED FOR VALOUR whose ‘arduous’ duty it was to stand in line against a charge of cavalry, or by those who cut their way, u ...
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF HEROISM IN BRITAIN 37 I confess it does not seem to be right or politic that such deeds of heroism a ...
38 AWARDED FOR VALOUR commanders? Have we not done all the troops could do under such difficult circumstances?’^68 On the subjec ...
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF HEROISM IN BRITAIN 39 after the Queen wrote to Newcastle granting permission for the announce- ment ...
40 AWARDED FOR VALOUR the Crimean War alongside her soldiers. Even when news of the suicidal insanity at Balaklava reached Brita ...
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF HEROISM IN BRITAIN 41 War Office were in agreement as to the wording of the warrant and the design o ...
42 AWARDED FOR VALOUR signing of the royal warrant. What remained was to make the Queen’s pleasure a reality by creating an inst ...
THREE Teething Problems, 1856–1867 T he Royal Warrant of 29 January 1856 created the award, but it was up to the War Office and ...
44 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Exactly what constituted a ‘signal act of valour or devotion’ was the question that exercised Horse Guards ...
TEETHING PROBLEMS, 1856–1867 45 Of more immediate importance, however, was the fact that the warrant did not specifically state ...
46 AWARDED FOR VALOUR acquaint you in reply that his Lordship finds himself unable to receive any application for this decoratio ...
TEETHING PROBLEMS, 1856–1867 47 at this point. The volume of the recommendations apparently surprised the Duke of Cambridge as t ...
48 AWARDED FOR VALOUR outraged at the thought that a British soldier might need or desire an award to proclaim his martial prowe ...
TEETHING PROBLEMS, 1856–1867 49 imply thatallthe soldiers of the regiment were distinguished simply by the fact that they belong ...
50 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Queen Victoria would serve in the minds of some as a limiting factor to the number granted to the other ra ...
TEETHING PROBLEMS, 1856–1867 51 any mention of the existence of the Victoria Cross. It is clear that Daubeney was already trying ...
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