query: military_branch john frederick maurice
supports: The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA), is the artillery arm of the British Army. Despite its name, it comprises a number of regiments. A military academy or service academy (in "American English") is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps of the army, the navy, marine corps, air force or coast guard. It normally provides education in a military environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned. Major - General Sir John Frederick Maurice ( 1841 -- 1912 ) was an English soldier , born in London . He studied at the Royal India Military College , Addiscombe , and the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich , and entered the Royal Artillery in 1861 . He was private secretary to Sir Garnet Wolseley in the Ashanti Campaign of 1873 -- 1874 ; served in the Zulu War in 1880 ; was deputy assistant adjutant general of the Egyptian expedition in 1882 ; and was brevetted colonel in 1885 . In 1885 -- 1892 Maurice was professor of military history at the Staff College and in 1895 he was promoted to major general . Later in his career he was commander of the Woolwich District until 1902 . His reputation depends chiefly on his military writings , which include : Hostilities without Declaration of War ( 1883 ) Popular History of Ashanti Campaign ( 1874 ) a life of his father , John Frederick Denison Maurice ( 1884 ) The Balance of Military Power in Europe ( 1888 ) War ( 1891 ) National Defenses ( 1897 ) The Franco - German War , 1870 -- 1871 ( 1900 ) Diary of Sir John Moore ( 1904 ) History of the War in South Africa , an official account ( four volumes , 1906 -- 1910 ) Artillery is a class of large military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry's small arms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach fortifications, and led to heavy, fairly immobile siege engines. As technology improved, lighter, more mobile field artillery developed for battlefield use. This development continues today; modern self-propelled artillery vehicles are highly mobile weapons of great versatility providing the largest share of an army's total firepower. A regiment is a military unit. Their role and size varies markedly, depending on the country and the arm of service. The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom. The force was initially administered by the War Office from London, which in 1964 was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence. The professional head of the British Army is the Chief of the General Staff. 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. RMA Woolwich was commonly known as "The Shop" because its first building was a converted workshop of the Woolwich Arsenal. The Royal Corps of Signals (often simply known as the Royal Signals - abbreviated to R SIGNALS) is one of the combat support arms of the British Army. Signals units are among the first into action, providing the battlefield communications and information systems essential to all operations. Colloquially referred to by some as "Siggies".
  Royal Signals units provide the full telecommunications infrastructure for the Army wherever they operate in the world. The Corps has its own engineers, logistics experts and systems operators to run radio and area networks in the field. It is responsible for installing, maintaining and operating all types of telecommunications equipment and information systems, providing command support to commanders and their headquarters, and conducting electronic warfare against enemy communications. The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the "Sappers", is one of the corps of the British Army. It is highly regarded throughout the military, and especially the Army.
candidates: air force army artillery british army infantry navy regiment royal artillery royal engineers
answer: british army