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Barracks are buildings used to accommodate military personnel and quasi-military personnel such as police. The English word originates from the 17th century via French and Italian from an old Spanish word barraca 'soldier's tent',but today barracks are usually permanent buildings. The word may apply to separate housing blocks or to complete complexes,and the plural form often refers to a single structure and may be singular in construction.
Outram is a planning area located within the Central Area of the Central Region of Singapore. The area is bordered by these planning areas:Singapore River to the north,the Downtown Core to the east and south,and Bukit Merah to the west. Outram comprises four subzones,China Square,Chinatown,People's Park and Pearl's Hill.
Stanley Fort is a military installation on the south side of Hong Kong Island. Built originally to serve the British Armed Forces,it now houses the Hong Kong garrison of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Ground Force. It has also been used as Kai Chi Children's Centre and the Aberdeen Rehabilitation Centre.
The Public Works Department (PWD) was the State Government Agency of Western Australia,which was charged with providing and maintaining public infrastructure such as dams,water supplies,schools,hospitals,harbours and other public buildings. The department is no longer operational,having its responsibilities reassigned to other State Government Departments and corporate entities since 1985.
Douglas Harbour is located near Douglas Head at the southern end of Douglas,the capital of the Isle of Man. It is the island's main commercial shipping port. The Port of Douglas was the first in the world to be equipped with radar.
A network of military roads,sometimes called General Wade's Military Roads,was constructed in the Scottish Highlands during the middle part of the 18th century in the wake of the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.
The Vellore mutiny,or Vellore Revolution,occurred on 10 July 1806 and was the first instance of a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company,predating the Indian Rebellion of 1857 by half a century. The revolt,which took place in the Indian city of Vellore,lasted one full day,during which mutineers seized the Vellore Fort and killed or wounded 200 British troops. The mutiny was subdued by cavalry and artillery from Arcot. Total deaths amongst the mutineers were approximately 350;with summary executions of about 100 during the suppression of the outbreak,followed by the formal court-martial of smaller numbers.
William Williams was a Welsh Presbyterian missionary to Khasi Hills,northeast India,in the late 19th century. He was a son of a ship captain in Nanternis,a small village in Wales. Following his father's footstep he became a sailor for five years. Then he took a profession in carpentry for two years. After graduating in theology from East London Missionary Training Institute he became a pastor. Pursuing his ambition he became a missionary of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Foreign Mission to Khasi people in India from 1887 until his death. He died of typhoid in 1892.
The British Indian Army Lushai Expedition of 1871 to 1872 was a punitive incursion under the command of Generals Brownlow and Bourchier. The objectives of the expedition were to rescue British subjects who had been captured by the Lushais in raids into Assam—including a six-year-old girl called Mary Winchester—and to convince the hill tribes of the region that they had nothing to gain and everything to lose by placing themselves in a hostile position towards the British Government.
The history of Christianity in Mizoram covers the origin and development of all forms of Christianity in Mizoram since the British occupation at the end of the 19th century until Indian independence. Christianity arrived due to British intervention in tribal warfare,raids of British plantations. The ensuing punitive British military expedition was called the Lushai Expedition of 1871. The subsequent annexation of the erstwhile Lushai Hills to the British Empire opened the gateway for British Christian missions to evangelise the Mizo people.
Colonel John Shakespear was the first Superintendent of the British Lushai Hills serving from 1891 to 1896. He also was an officer of the British Army in India,an Indian Political Service officer,and an author.
Aizawl,formerly known as Aijal,is the capital city and the most populous city of Mizoram,India. It is also the third largest city in northeast India. It is situated atop a series of ridges,with an average elevation of around 1,132 metres above sea level. In 2024,the city has an estimated population of 415,000 people.
The Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889–90 was a British punitive expedition in Burma and India against the tribes of the Chin Hills and Lushai Hills.
British rule in the Lushai Hills,spanning from the late 1889 to the 1947,commenced with the Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90 leading to the formal establishment of the two administrative districts in 1889 and continued through the integration of the regions into the province of Assam with both districts being merged as the Lushai Hills until India gained independence in 1947.
Khalkam was a Lushai chief of the 19th century. He is known for being the son of Sukpilal and for being an enemy of the British,which led to the Lushai Rising. Khalkam was deported to Hazaribagh jail after British capture,where he committed suicide with his brother Lengpunga.
The Lushai Rising was the conflict between the British and the Lushai chiefs in 1890-1895,which began following the annexation of the Lushai Hills after the Chin-Lushai Expedition. It concerned the Western chiefs,the Eastern chief and Southern chiefs separately at different intervals. By 1895,the Lushai resistance and rising was considered over.
Robert Blair McCabe was a British civil servant. He joined the Indian civil service in 1874 and was stationed in Assam in 1876. He is most well known for his pacification of the Naga Hills and the Lushai Hills,particularly the Lushai Rising. McCabe would die in 1897 after being struck by an earthquake.
The Lushai Expedition of 1869 was an abortive punitive expedition against Sukpilal and Kanai Singh. It was arranged by the deputy commissioner of Cachar,John Edgar and led by Colonel Nuthall. Factors such as weather,unpreparedness and diplomatic overtures led to the retreat and failure of the expedition.
Charles Stewart Murray was a superintendent of police in the British Raj. Murray participated in the Chin-Lushai Expedition. Murray assisted John Shakespear,the field officer of the southern column in the expedition. After the annexation of the Lushai Hills,Murray was assigned as the first superintendent of the South Lushai Hills. However,his mishandling of authority with the Lushai tribes,such as Zakapa,would see him transferred to an assistant commissioner of the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Captain Herbert Richard Browne was a British military officer and the first political officer of the North Lushai Hills. Browne was tasked with pacifying the Lushai Hills until he was betrayed by Khalkam and killed on transit to Changsil.