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Sandhurst

 
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A village of south-central England southeast of Reading. Its famed Royal Military College (now Academy) was founded in the 1790s.

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Royal Military Academy

A training college at Camberley, Surrey, southeastern England, for officers of the British army. It was formed in 1946 from an amalgamation of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in Berkshire, which was established in 1799 and moved to Sandhurst in 1812, and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, London, which was founded in 1741.

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Sandhurst, village, Bracknell Forest, S central England. It is the site of the British army officer-training school, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. The original Sandhurst school, the Royal Military College, merged with the Royal Military Academy, formerly at Woolwich, in the 1940s. Winston Churchill was trained at Sandhurst.


‘sandy wooded hill’, OE sand + hyrst: Sandhurst Bracknell Forest Sandherst (1175). Sandhurst Gloucestershire Sanher [sic] (1086) (DB), Sandhurst 12th cent. Sandhurst Kent. Sandhyrste (c.1100).

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Français (French)
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Deutsch (German)
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中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
桑赫斯特

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 桑德赫斯特

한국어 (Korean)
샌드허스트 (영국 육군 사관학교(royal Military Academy)의 소재지; Berkshire 주에 있음)

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סנדהרסט‬


 
 

 

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Oxford Dictionary of the US Military. The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. Copyright © 2001, 2002 by Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved.  Read more
Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/cup/ Read more
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