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The Royal Military Academy ( RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It later also trained officers of the Royal Corps of Signals and other technical corps.
- 1741–1939
- Military academy
- "The Shop"
Die Royal Military Academy Woolwich (offiziell The Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; deutsch: Königliche Militärakademie Woolwich) war eine Militärakademie der British Army, die von 1741 bis 1939 im Londoner Stadtteil Woolwich existierte. Die Einrichtung wurde umgangssprachlich auch als „The Shop“ bezeichnet.
The Royal Military Academy, Woolwich by Paul Sandby (1731-1809) (Royal Collection) shows the Academy buildings about 1770. Sandby was drawing master at the Academy from 1768 to 1796, retiring a few years before English’s arrival.
The first officially sanctioned military college was the Royal Military Academy (RMA), Woolwich, established in 1741 by the Royal Artillery . The RMA focused on the rapidly advancing technical skills that artillery officers required, teaching maths and science as well as more military subjects.
James Wyatt designed the impressive Royal Military Academy at Woolwich (1805), originally for gunnery cadets from the Woolwich Arsenal, now a Grade II* listed building converted to residential use.
THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, WOOLWICH, IN 1809. By Major V. Hodson, Indian Army (retired list). It is not known by whom the following account of the system employed for the maintenance of discipline at the .Woolwich, in the early years of the 19th Century, was compiled. That its author was writing with first-hand knowledge of the routine at the.
The Royal Military Academy, begun in 1721 in the arsenal, was moved to Woolwich Common in 1808, into a building designed by the architect James Wyatt. Many of Britain’s military leaders emerged from this institution, including Lord Kitchener, Charles George Gordon, and Orde Charles Wingate.
