In addition to battling the armies of other European Empires ( and of its former colonies, the United States, in the American War of 1812 ), in the battle for global supremacy, the British Army fought the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars, and the Boxer Rebellion, Māori tribes in the first of the New Zealand Wars, Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daula's forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Boers in the First and Second Boer Wars, Irish Fenians in Canada during the Fenian raids and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War.

* February 10 – Boxer Mike Tyson, the former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, is found guilty of raping 18-year-old Desiree Washington, Miss Black Rhode Island, by a jury in Indianapolis.

* Gary Mason, former British Heavyweight Champion Boxer, who lived in Wallington before his untimely death on Sandy Lane South whilst riding his bicycle, on 6 January 2011.

California Senator Barbara Boxer in December 2006 withdrew a " certificate of accomplishment " originally given to former CAIR official Basim Elkarra after Boxer's staff looked into CAIR, and she became concerned about some of CAIR's past statements and actions, and statements by some law enforcement officials that it provides aid to international terrorist groups.

He followed that with Jim Sheridan's The Boxer as a former boxer and IRA member recently released from prison.

Rockefeller and Barbara Boxer subsequently wrote to the oversight committee of Dow Jones & Company ( a subsidiary of News Corporation ) to request that it conduct an investigation into the hiring of former CEO Les Hinton, and whether any current or former executives had knowledge of or played a role in phone hacking.

The station's presenters include local snooker hero Steve Davis, Boxer Rebellion drummer Piers Hewitt, and former Carter USM guitarist / songwriter Les " Fruitbat " Carter.

* Zachary Coile ( 1991 ), communications director for California senator Barbara Boxer, former editor at the San Francisco Chronicle.

Though Whitman has contributed to a few Democrats, including Senator Barbara Boxer ; donating $ 4, 000 to her campaign and serving on the " Friends of Boxer " committee in 2004, she donated more than $ 225, 000. 00 during the same period to Republicans, eBay's PAC and to Americans for a Republican Majority, the PAC of former Rep. Tom DeLay.

Although he won the 2004 Republican primary over former U. S. Treasurer Rosario Marin, Jones lost the general election to Senator Barbara Boxer, with 38 % of the vote.

The blog's popularity has attracted the attention of many Democratic senators, members of Congress, governors and candidates who have posted on the site, including Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, former President Jimmy Carter, and President Barack Obama.

* Isidro Garcia ( b. 1976 ), Mexican former professional Boxer

* Shadow BoxerRescuing a down-on-his-luck former boxing champion from arrest and trying to give him powers, Dr. Scarab instead accidentally creates Shadow Boxer due to Glove's interference.

* Travis Simms, Pro Boxer in the Super welterweight division, former Champion

* Rico Ramos American Boxer and former WBA world super bantamweight champion

In the 1992 elections, Dianne Feinstein, a former Democratic mayor of San Francisco, running for the balance of an uncompleted term, beat her opponent with a margin of nearly two million votes, while Barbara Boxer — a 10-year veteran of the U. S. House of Representatives who had joined six of her Democratic women colleagues in a march on the Senate to urge greater attention to Anita Hill's charges — solidly won a full term.

Founded by former social-democrat party strongman Jan Nagel, it was initially held at bay for alderman positions.

* Magnus Samuelsson, a Swedish strongman and former World's Strongest Man

All of the twenty four members of the Sierra Leonean delegation were prominent and well-respected politicians including Sir Milton's younger brother lawyer Sir Albert Margai, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens, SLPP strongman Lamina Sankoh, outspoken Creole activist Isaac Wallace-Johnson, Paramount chief Ella Koblo Gulama, educationist Mohamed Sanusi Mustapha, Dr John Karefa-Smart, professor Kande Bureh, lawyer Sir Banja Tejan-Sie, former Freetown's Mayor Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings educationist Amadu Wurie, and Creole diplomat Hector Reginald Sylvanus Boltman.

Professional boxer and former competitive strongman Arild Haugen, originally from Sirdal, Vest-Agder, lives in Sandnes.

The pro-monarchy leadership, chosen, hidden and finally unleashed at the right moment by the CIA team, led by retired army General and former Minister of Interior in Mosaddegh's cabinet, Fazlollah Zahedi joined with underground figures such as the Rashidian brothers and local strongman Shaban Jafari, to gain the upper hand on 19 August 1953 ( 28 Mordad ).

While former President Jacques Chirac, the right's strongman in normally left-wing Corrèze had always done very well in Corrèze and the surrounding departments, Sarkozy did very poorly and actually lost the department in the 2007 runoff.

Among them is the little brother, Denree ( Joseph Lucien ), of carnival strongman and former Russian sailor One ( Ron Perlman ), who sets out to rescue him with the help of a young, orphaned, thieves ' guild member named Miette ( Judith Vittet ).

Steve is assisted by Gorilla, the strongman ( Ken Gampu ); Gypsy Billy, the " former champion of the world ", Norman Robinson ; The Fly, the mystic ( Stan Schmidt ), and Hotdog, the gimmicky weapon-expert and theoretical comic relief ( Bill Flynn ).

Magnús Ver Magnússon ( born April 22, 1963 ) is a former powerlifter and strongman competitor from Egilsstaðir, Iceland.

Approximately 12 spies were deployed, mostly with little success, including Günther Schütz, Ernst Weber-Drohl ( a former circus strongman ) and Henry Obed, an Indian.

The Juárez couple, in their nineties, subsequently lived under house arrest in the city of Santiago del Estero ; the former strongman died in 2010.

Mariusz Zbigniew Pudzianowski ( born on February 7, 1977 in Biała Rawska ) is a Polish former strongman and current mixed martial artist.

Geoffrey Lewis Capes ( born 23 August 1949 ) is a former athlete, strongman and professional Highland Games competitor.

Although it is true to say that a number of his votes came from British based athletes, ( notably former World's Strongest Man Jamie Reeves being among that number ) he also was named as best strongman of all time by Magnus Ver Magnusson, Jon Pall Sigmarsson and Ted Van Der Parre.

Between former Tory MP André Bachand's departure from politics in June 2004 and January 2006, Nolin surreptitiously became the " Quebec strongman " in the new Conservative Party's parliamentary caucus.

He is the brother of fellow strongman and former holder of the title " Britain's Strongest Man ", Mick Gosling.

Svend Karlsen ( born October 6, 1967 ) is a former Norwegian strongman, powerlifter, and IFBB professional bodybuilder.

When Miguel Mariano Gomez, son of former president José Miguel Gómez won the presidential election, strongman Fulgencio Batista, engineered the impeachment of Gomez in December 1936 for having vetoed a bill to create rural schools under army control.

Like The Shadow, the Escapist is assisted in his quest by specially gifted agents, who include the former circus strongman Big Al, exotic Asian beauty Miss Plum Blossom, and Omar, an East Indian mystic who possesses the power of hypnosis.

Hallie was in love with Achilles Schmidt, a former circus strongman whose legs had been cut off by a train.

* Flemming Rasmussen ( strongman ), former strongman from Denmark

* Arild Hiim, former member of parliament

* Knut Arild Hareide ( born 1972 ), is the leader of Norway's Christian Democratic Party, and a former Minister of the Environment

* Knut Arild Hareide, former Minister of the Environment.

Arild Verner Agerskov " Vern " Mikkelsen ( born October 21, 1928 ) is an American former professional basketball player.

Arild Gilbert Sundgot ( born 17 April 1978 in Ulsteinvik ) is a former Norwegian football striker, who last played for Lillestrøm.