North West Frontier [1959] [DVD]

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Regarding the Indian Army, I read that one of the post-Mutiny precautions was to ensure that the British Army battalions stationed in India always had a rifle more advanced than that issued to the sepoys in the Indian Army. So, by the late 1890s, the Indian troops had Martini-Henrys, but the British had Lee Metford, forerunner of the Lee Enfield, a magazine rifle capable of a greater rate of fire. I wonder if you can spot a bolt-action magazine rifle in 15mm scale! probably! The shaping power of Hollywood was not only apparent in the understanding of genre, but also in other aspects of production and reception. The British director of the film, J. Lee Thompson, had dreamed since childhood of being ‘an American film director’, and moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s (Chibnall, 2000, 278). The production company — Rank — had announced a policy of only producing films that had international entertainment value in 1956 and, in their determination to get films into the American market, had established Rank Film Distributors of America in 1957 to penetrate the American market and bypass the American distributors (Porter, 1997, 129). North West Frontierwas titled Flame Over Indiafor American distribution and Empress of Indiafor Australian. It starred Lauren Bacall as the American governess, investing a British adventure landscape with the glamour and modernity associated with Hollywood.

Barthorp, Michael (1982). The North-West Frontier, New Orchard (first edition, later edition below). Between the wars imperial epics displaying expansive adventure landscapes were produced by the British film industry, including the Korda trilogy of Sanders of the River(1935), The Drum(1938), and The Four Feathers(1939) – the latter two in Technicolor. In the late 1930s Hollywood also made a number of films that celebrated the British empire and bore some resemblance to Westerns, but ceased making such films after the Second World War. While the empire genre in British film continued, there were considerable changes that modernised imperial identity and changed the presentation of imperial heroes and adventure landscapes to bring them into line with the ideal of a Commonwealth of equal nations.

Designated 130th Baluchis in 1903, the subsidiary title was restored in 1910. [68] Artillery [ edit ] Howard Thompson (23 February 1964). "New Chapter For A Manhattan Hollywood Queen". The New York Times. At the beginning of the Second Afghan War in 1878, the Guides Infantry, together with the 1st Sikh Infantry, PFF, took part in forcing the Khyber, and were prominent in seizing the fortress of Ali Masjid. [56] For this and subsequent efforts the Corps of Guides was awarded the battle honours A LI M ASJID, K ABUL 1879, and A FGHANISTAN 1878–80.

Roger, Alexander (2003). Battle Honours of the British Empire and Commonwealth Land Forces 1662–1991. Crowood Press. Marlborough, Wiltshire. ISBN 1-86126-637-5.

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Spared the same fate, the 4th Sikh Infantry was employed in the expedition of 1895 earning the honour C HITRAL. [101] By 1819 only Sindh and the Sikh Empire remained outside the company's control. Napoleon was vanquished, but the Empire of the Tsars had begun to expand south and east. Russian influence grew likewise, and by the early 1830s Qajar Irān was within the Tsar's sphere. Attempts by Irān to recover Herat in 1834, and again in 1837, raised the spectre of Russian armies on the road to Kandahar, whence direct access to India through the Khojak and Bolan passes. [11]