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:''Hounslow Barracks redirects here. The London Underground station so named is now named Hounslow West tube station.'' Cavalry Barracks is a British Army installation located north of Hounslow Heath in Hounslow, west London. Hounslow was one of 40 new barracks established around London to guard against possible French invasion in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. ==History== The area around Hounslow Heath has been used for centuries to garrison Armies of The Crown because of its proximity to London, Windsor Castle and Hampton Court. In the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell marshalled an army on the heath at the end of the English Civil War in 1647. James II also camped his troops here to hold military exercises in an unsuccessful attempt to intimidate the Parliament in London shortly before the Glorious Revolution. In 1793, the area became a permanent barracks for troops using the heath when permanent buildings were erected because of the possible invasion by the French during the Napoleonic Wars. The barracks became a busy depot for the London military district. Florence Nightingale undertook some of her early training at Hounslow. By 1884, the barracks had its own railway station on the newly created London Underground.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Art on the Underground )〕 In June 1846, Private Frederick John White was flogged after a Court-martial sentenced him to 150 lashes for insubordination at Hounslow Barracks. He died a month later making him the last soldier to die after a flogging in the British Army. White was buried in nearby St Leonard's churchyard, Heston. Calls for abolishment of flogging were made in Parliament; it was eventually outlawed in 1881.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The History of The 7th Queen’s Own Hussars Vol. II, by C.R.B. Barretts )〕 After the Second World War the barracks served as Headquarters Eastern Command until it moved to Wilton Park in 1954.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wilton Park )〕 In 2007, MPs expressed concern in a report that some of the Victorian buildings at Cavalry Barracks were so bad that troops staying in tented camps in Afghanistan had better living conditions than those at Hounslow. Between March 2010 and mid-2011, the MoD has built 396 en-suite bed spaces in six new accommodation blocks to house 354 junior ranks and 42 for senior non-commissioned officers (SNCOs) under the Ministry of Defence's SLAM (single living accommodation modernisation) project to improve military accommodation. Cavalry Barracks is today home to the illustrious 1st Battalion Irish Guards. QS. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cavalry Barracks, Hounslow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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