The Copy Book › The Defence of the Realm

There are four posts in The Copy Book tagged The Defence of the Realm. To see all our posts, go to the Archive.

The posts are currently listed with the most recent shown first. You can also list them alphabetically, and shuffle them to see posts you may have missed.

Most Recent A-Z Shuffle

Drake’s Drum

By Sir Henry Newbolt

In time of crisis, so the legend goes, Sir Francis Drake will come to our aid again, as once he did against the Spanish Armada.

The Battle of Trafalgar

By Jawaharlal Nehru

A year into his reign as Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte had much of Europe under his government but the United Kingdom still eluded him.

The Battle of Waterloo

By Clay Lane

The Russians had checked it in the East, but in the West the expansion of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire was far from over.

Britain’s Destiny

By Leslie Howard

In a Christmas broadcast in 1940, actor Leslie Howard explained why British sovereignty was worth fighting for.