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* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

Other awards for excellence in architecture are given by national professional associations such as the American Institute of Architects ( AIA ), the Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ), the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada ( RAIC ) and the Institute of Architects Bangladesh ( IAB ).

Architects in the UK who have made contributions to the profession through design excellence or architectural education, or have in some other way advanced the profession, might until 1971 be elected Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects and can write FRIBA after their name if they feel so inclined.

Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.

*, a British Royal Navy ship.

* 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.

* 1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.

Category: Positions within the British Royal Household

Aalto's awards included the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture from the Royal Institute of British Architects ( 1957 ) and the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects ( 1963 ).

Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.

*, a prestigious ship name in the British Royal Navy, often the name of the Fleet Flagship, has been given to five ships

During the turn of the 20th century British Israelites carried out some excavations of the Hill of Tara in Ireland looking for the Ark of the Covenant – the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland campaigned successfully to have them stopped before they destroyed the hill.

The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 ; she prompted the British Royal Navy to build a counter.

At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.

In the year 1893, during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary between Afghanistan and British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost, Afghanistan.

In addition, the navy contracted in late 1994 to acquire four Type 22 British Royal Navy frigates and three River-class minesweepers for delivery in the 1995-97 period.

In 1796, during the French Revolution and three years after the declaration of war between France and Great Britain, Étienne-Gaspard Robert met with the French government and proposed the use of mirrors to burn the invading ships of the British Royal Navy.

After the First World War Montgomery commanded the 17th Battalion the Royal Fusiliers, a battalion in the British Army of the Rhine, before reverting to his substantive rank of captain ( brevet major ) in November 1919.

Although he still wore a standard British officer's cap on arrival in the desert, he briefly wore an Australian broad-brimmed hat before switching to wearing the black beret ( with the badge of the Royal Tank Regiment next to the British General Officer's badge ) for which he became notable.

* 1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

* Albany ( 1903 Automobile ), an early British automobile

* The Automobile Association, a British motoring organisation

Recognising the value of publicity gained from auto racing, which no other British marque did, in spring, Edge entered an 8 hp ( 6 kW ) Napier in the Thousand Miles ( 1, 600 km ) Trial of the Automobile Club on behalf of Edward Kennard ; driven by Edge, with Kennard along, on a circuit from Newbury to Edinburgh and back, she won her class, being one of only thirty-five finishers ( of sixty-four starters ) and one of just twelve to average the requisite 12 mph ( 19 km / h ) in England and 10 mph ( 16 km / h ) in Scotland.

* IBCAM British Steel Auto Design Award ( Saab 900 2. 0i Coupé )-The Institute of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers, Great Britain

The Automobile Association ( The AA ), a British motoring association founded in 1905 was demutualised in 1999 to become a private limited company which currently provides car insurance, driving lessons, breakdown cover, loans and motoring advice, and other services.

* September 9-WWI: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army

The Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland wanted the race to be hosted in the British Isles, and their secretary, Claude Johnson, suggested Ireland as the venue because racing was illegal on British public roads.

The company went further into decline, and was rescued by a consortium of Trust House Forte, Midland Bank and the Automobile Association that bought the company from the British Government on 26 May 1972.

The Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland wanted the race to be hosted in the British Isles, and their secretary, Claude Johnson ( managing director of C. S.

The Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, also known as Brutinel's Brigade or the Brutinel Brigade, was the first fully mechanized unit of the British Army.

In the United Kingdom in 2001, the Ordnance Survey ( OS ) and the Automobile Association ( The AA ), a British motoring association, reached an out-of-court settlement of £ 20m after deliberate " errors " placed on OS maps were reproduced on maps by the AA.

The Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland wanted the race to be hosted in the United Kingdom, and their secretary, Claude Johnson, suggested Ireland as the venue because racing was illegal on British public roads.

* AA rosette, a mark awarded to fine restaurants by the British Automobile Association ( AA )

The British RAC ( Royal Automobile Club ) horsepower taxation system had the secondary function of excluding foreign vehicles.

In 1896 Adolphe Clément was associated with Lord Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury and ( yet to be convicted ) fraudster Harry John Lawson of the British Automobile Commercial Syndicate Ltd.

In the middle of the decade, SAIC attempted to acquire the ailing British automaker MG Rover but in 2005 was outbid by another Chinese automaker, Nanjing Automobile.

* Alldays ( 1898 Automobile ), an early British automobile

* British Automobile Racing Club

The Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland wanted the race to be hosted in the British Isles, and their secretary, Claude Johnson, suggested Ireland as the venue because racing was illegal on British public roads roads.

* Thruxton Circuit ( British Automobile Racing Club )