The British believed Africans were essentially ... SOLDIER'S POINT OF VIEW "I got into the French army during the colonial period...and first I was a private, then I became a sergeant in the ...

See how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British army to build a powerful dictatorship in Uganda. Through a combination of populist charm and brutal violence, he ruled for eight years ...

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, occurred when the British Indian army fired on civilians in the Punjabi city in 1919. More than 300 Indians were killed and 1,200 ...

Roy’s The Army in British India is an excellent overview of the history and character of the Indian Army, stripped of much of the colonial fiction. Note: The Army in British India is also available in ...