The British Naval Brigade and Royal Marines storm the stockade at Shimonoseki in September 1864. The Royal Marines ( RM) are the marine corps and amphibious Infantry of the United Kingdom and along with the Royal Navy is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It is at the southwestern tip of Honshū, facing the Tsushima Strait and also Kitakyushu Illustrated London News, 24 December 1864. The Illustrated London News was a Magazine founded by Herbert Ingram and his friend Mark Lemon, the editor of Punch Events 563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by Earthquakes Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year

A Naval Brigade is a large temporary detachment of Royal Marines and of seamen from the Royal Navy formed to undertake operations on shore, particularly during the mid- to late-19th century. The Royal Marines ( RM) are the marine corps and amphibious Infantry of the United Kingdom and along with the Royal Navy Seaman as a rate refers to one of the lowest rates in a Navy. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) Seamen were specifically trained in land-based warfare at the gunnery school at HMS Excellent in Portsmouth. HMS Excellent is a Royal Navy shore establishment sited on Whale Island near Portsmouth, Hampshire. History See also History of Portsmouth There have been settlements in the area since before Roman times mostly being offshoots of Portchester, which

The Royal Navy fought only one ship-to-ship action (HMS Shah and HMS Amethyst against the Peruvian ship Husacar in 1877) in the period from 1850 to 1914, so, for much of that period, its only active service was on shore, through Naval Brigades formed from the men aboard its vessels. The first HMS Shah was a 19th century unarmoured iron hulled wooden sheathed Frigate of Britain's Royal Navy designed by Sir Edward Reed History as a warship Huáscar was ordered by the government of Peru from the Laird Brothers shipyards in 1864 for the war against Spain. Naval Brigades were used in engagements including:

• the Burma Wars (1824-85)
• the Crimean War (1854-6)
• the Second Opium War (1856-60)
• the Indian Mutiny (1857-9)
• the Maori Wars (1860-4)
• the Bombardment of Kagoshima and the Battle of Shimonoseki (1863-64)
• the Abyssinian expedition (1867-8)
• the Second Ashanti War (1873-4)
• the Zulu War (1879)
• the Transvaal War (1881)
• the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War
• the Anglo-Sudanese War (1884-5)
• the Boer War (1899-1900)
• the Boxer Rebellion in China (1900)

Naval Brigade guns and gunners at the siege of Sevastopol, during the Crimean War. There have been three Burmese Wars or Anglo-Burmese Wars: First Anglo-Burmese War (1823 to 1826 Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852 The Crimean War, also known in Russia as the Eastern War (Восточная война Vostochnaya Vojna) (March 1854–February 1856 was fought The Second Opium War, the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war of the United Kingdom The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of Sepoys of British East India Company 's army on the 10th of May 1857 in the town of Meerut, The New Zealand Wars, sometimes called the Land Wars and also once called the Māori Wars, were a series of conflicts that took place in New Zealand The Bombardment of Kagoshima, also known as the, took place on 15-17 August 1863 during the Late Tokugawa shogunate. The Bombardment of Shimonoseki (Japanese下関戦争/馬関戦争 Shimonoseki Sensō/Bakan Sensō) refers to a series of military engagements fought in 1863-64, by joint naval The British 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia was a Punitive expedition carried out by Armed forces of the British Empire against the Ethiopian Empire Ashanti, or Asante, are a major Ethnic group of Ashanti Region in Ghana. The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Empire. See also Second Boer War,, South African Wars (1879-1915 The First Boer War ( Dutch: Eerste Boerenoorlog, Afrikaans: The Second Anglo-Egyptian War or the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War occurred in 1882 between Urabi Forces, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain The Mahdist War was a Colonial war of the late 19th century It was fought between the Mahdist Sudanese and the Egyptian and later British See also First Boer War,, South African Wars (1879-1915 The Second Boer War ( Dutch: Tweede Boerenoorlog, Afrikaans: The Boxer Rebellion, or Boxer Movement, was an uprising by members of the Chinese Society of Right and Harmonious Fists against foreign influence

The field gun competition commemorates the participation of a Naval Brigade in the relief of Ladysmith during the Boer War, when 12-pounder guns from HMS Terrible and HMS Powerful were dragged across almost 200 miles of rough terrain from Durban in October 1899. The field gun competition also referred to as Gun Run or the Gun Run was held annually at the Royal Tournament in London from 1907 to 1999 and was contested by teams from the The Siege of Ladysmith was a protracted engagement in the Second Boer War, taking place between 30 October 1899 and 28 February 1900 See also First Boer War,, South African Wars (1879-1915 The Second Boer War ( Dutch: Tweede Boerenoorlog, Afrikaans: Terrible 1898 Trials 60 hours at 1/5 power (20 boilers 5084 ihp = 68 hours at 2/5 power = 60 hours at 3/5 power = Career She was built by Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness and launched on July 24 1895 by the Duchess of Devonshire. Durban (eThekwini is the third most populous city in South Africa, forming part of the EThekwini metropolitan municipality.

A Royal Naval Division, later designated the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, was formed in the First World War, to make use of surplus reserves of the Royal Navy who were not required at sea. The British 63rd (Royal Naval Division was a First World War division of the New Army. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All It included two Naval Brigades and a brigade of Royal Marines, and fought in the defence of Antwerp in 1914, the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915, and the Battle of the Somme in 1916. A brigade is a Military unit Echelon: is ||-||-||-||} Antwerp ( Dutch:, French: Anvers) is a City and Municipality in Belgium and the capital of the The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, fought from July to November 1916 was among the largest battles of the First World War Few naval personnel remained in the Division by July 1916, and it was redesignated as the 63rd Division. The division was demobilised in April 1919.

References

• Information Sheet No. 31, Naval Brigades, from the Royal Naval Museum

See also

• 63rd (Royal Naval) Division
• naval infantry