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    The Board of Ordnance was a British government body. Established in the Tudor period, it had its headquarters in the Tower of London. Its primary responsibilities...
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  • Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), consisting of the Indian Ordnance Factories, now known as Directorate of Ordnance (Coordination & Services), was an organisation...
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  • Board of Ordnance and itself replaced by the Ordnance Board, now within the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom). Master-General of the Ordnance v t e v...
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    into the British Army when the Board of Ordnance was abolished in 1855. Various other civilian departments of the board were absorbed into the War Office...
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    The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. At its renaming as a Royal Corps in 1918 it was both a supply and repair corps. In...
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    associated with the Board of Ordnance, and later the War Department and the Ministry of Defence. It was exported to other parts of the British Empire,...
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    The Board of Ordnance in the Kingdom of Ireland (1542–1800) performed the equivalent duties of the British Board of Ordnance: supplying arms and munitions...
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  • the Board of Ordnance in 1597. Its head was the Master-General of the Ordnance; his subordinates included the Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance and the...
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    The United States Army Ordnance Corps, formerly the United States Army Ordnance Department, is a sustainment branch of the United States Army, headquartered...
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    Department of the Master-General of the Ordnance. Forces War Records". Archived from the original on 5 October 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021. Board of Ordnance. Naval...
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    1853 under the auspices of the Board of Ordnance. The aim of the survey was to establish precise geographical coordinates of almost 300 significant landmarks...
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    Royal Naval Armament Depot (category Ammunition dumps of the United Kingdom)
    Ordnance Depots, several of which later became RNADs, were built by the Board of Ordnance (an autonomous office of the state, based at the Tower of London)...
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    2015, the Ordnance Survey has operated as Ordnance Survey Ltd, a government-owned company, 100% in public ownership. The Ordnance Survey Board remains accountable...
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    Royal Arsenal (category Royal Ordnance Factories in England)
    constitution of the Board of Ordnance was formalised by Charles II in 1683, two Proof Masters were appointed, under the Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, to ensure...
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    report of then Commander-in-Chief of the Bengal Army, Lieutenant General Sir John Clavering, the Board of Ordnance was established on April 8, 1775. This...
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    Mallet's Mortar (category Mortars of the United Kingdom)
    was taken with the idea and instructed the Board of Ordnance to arrange for the construction of two mortars of Mallet's design. Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding...
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    The Surveyor-General of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance and a member of the Board of Ordnance, a British government...
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    Master of the Board of Ordnance, had provided most of the finance for Roy's Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790). The theodolite is designated as the Board of Ordnance...
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  • United States Code. Chapter 1: Council of National Defense Chapter 2: Board of Ordnance and Fortification (repealed) Chapter 3: Alien Enemies Chapter 4: Espionage...
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    the command of the Board of Ordnance rather than of the Army). In the aftermath of the French Revolution, though, things changed. The size of the army grew...
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  • Robert Hawgood Crew (category People from the City of London)
    1839) was an English civil servant who served as Secretary to the Board of Ordnance during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. His department...
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    period of economic austerity that followed the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the American War of 1812 (when the British Army and the Board of Ordnance military...
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  • Order of battle at the Battle of the Monongahela lists the opposing forces engaged in the Battle of the Monongahela July 9, 1755. Major-general Edward...
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  • bolts'. The RAAOC badge is copied from the Board of Ordnance in the United Kingdom. Members of the ordnance corps will be found serving in most Army units...
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    British Colonial Auxiliary Forces (category Lists of military units and formations of the United Kingdom)
    the Ordnance Military Corps (including the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and Royal Sappers and Miners), administered and funded under the Board of Ordnance...
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    local-service only into the regular army and the Board of Ordnance Military Corps, under terms of service similar to those of the old militia. From 1894, recruitment...
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    built (1717–1721) for the Board of Ordnance. Berwick's name is of the same origin as the word berewick, denoting a portion of farmland which was detached...
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    transport organs were not part of the British Army but of the Board of Ordnance. After the Crimean War, the Board of Ordnance was abolished and these units...
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  • Military Stores Department (New Zealand) (category 19th-century military history of the United Kingdom)
    the activities of the Board of Ordnance and by 1846 offices had been established in Auckland and Wellington; Auckland Office of Ordnance, Princes Street...
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    Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (category History of the Royal Borough of Greenwich)
    first building was a converted workshop of the Woolwich Arsenal. An attempt had been made by the Board of Ordnance in 1720 to set up an academy within its...
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