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The Treaty of Amiens was signed on 25 March 1802 and concluded the series of conflicts known as the French Revolutionary Wars fought between the United Kingdom's coalition allies and France. Unfortunately, the Peace of Amiens lasted only one year and hostilities with the French Empire, led by Emperor Napoleon, began on 18 May 1803.
In mid-January 1916, the 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Rifles was in the line opposite the German trenches in Le Touquet, a quiet sector near Armentières. The Battalion planned a large scale 45-minute raid. The raiding party, splint into north and south groups, consisted of nine officers and 220 other ranks including a party of Royal Engineers. Raiding tasks included identifying the German unit in Le Touquet, killing as many enemy as possible, destroying machine-gun emplacements and, as mining was suspected, deploying the Engineers to destroy any mine shafts and tunnels.
The Tripartite, or Berlin, Pact was signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940.
Tsar Nikolas II, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, was forced to abdicate when he lost the support of the Russian Army amid growing political unrest and widespread demonstrations. In October 1917, the Bolsheviks overthrew Alexander Kerensky's moderate provisional government. Following the harsh peace treaty with Germany in March 1918, Russia erupted into civil war. On 17 July 1918, as anti-Bolshevik 'White' Russian forces approached Yekaterinburg, the Tsar and his family were murdered. The Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin, almost certainly gave the order to shoot them.
The Tyrone Militia was formed with Lord Abercorn as its Colonel and one of his first acts was to apply for the distinction ‘Royal’ for his regiment. This was granted quickly and the unit became the Royal Tyrone Regiment of Militia from 17 April 1793. In August that year the regiment was embodied and remained so until May 1802.
The battalions called out in response to the IRA bomb attacks on service married quarters in Northern Ireland were 1/9 UDR, 3 UDR, 7/10 UDR and 11 UDR.
*The exact date of this event is not known but it is known to have occurred in December 1988.
The 3rd Battalion The Ulster Defence Regiment mounted the first of a series of operations with The Royal Navy. In conjunction with the Bird Class patrol vessel HMS Cygnet, and utilising their own fast boat teams, the Battalion searched twenty-one islands in Carlingford Lough.
The 3rd Battalion, with its long County Down shoreline, was experienced in such operations, as demonstrated in 1972, during a visit by Margaret Thatcher before she became Prime Minister.
Battalions of the Ulster Defence Regiment with areas of operational responsibility along the border with the Republic of Ireland were deployed in response to a potential threat from 'Loyalists' during the visit of Pope John Paul II to the Republic of Ireland.
During a period of extensive flooding, the 6th and the 11th Battalion The Ulster Defence Regiment were deployed to assist the public by evacuating those stranded by the floods. Soldiers provided sandbags, pumps, food, heaters and put out fires caused by electrical short circuits. Over 500 UDR soldiers were deployed over a 30-hour period.
