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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.
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.
Learn how Sandhurst became the world-renowned military college for British Army officers since 1802, and how military history was part of its curriculum. Explore the origins of Sandhurst and its predecessors, such as the Royal Military Academy Woolwich, and the challenges and reforms it faced over time.
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 was founded at Woolwich in 1741. From 1776 redundant naval vessels were moored offshore to accommodate prisoners who would otherwise have been sent to the American colonies, then in rebellion against the Crown. Convict labour was used to build new wharves and to dredge silt from the river.
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.
