Yet it could not have been more than a matter of seconds, and then the front of the British army came into view.

He returned in command of an international army of Gurkhas, Indians, Africans, Chinese and British.

And in the role of Will Danaher, Philip Bosco roars and sneers sufficiently to intimidate not only one American but the whole British army, if he chose.

Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend ( 1814 ), and the British at the Battle of New Orleans ( 1815 ).

Cerdic, who is of both Germanic and British descent and raised as a Roman citizen, served in his army as a young man.

In Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers Prince Ambrosius Aurelianus of Arfon drives out the Saxons by training his British army with Roman techniques and making effective use of cavalry.

* 1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II.

To one who had been a man of war from his youth, who had won and lost many fights, the rout of a detachment and the forcible seizure of some debatable frontier lands was an untoward incident ; but it was not a sufficient reason for calling upon the British, although they had guaranteed his territory's integrity, to vindicate his rights by hostilities which would certainly bring upon him a Russian invasion from the north, and would compel his British allies to throw an army into Afghanistan from the southeast.

The second Battle of Doiran, with general Vladimir Vazov as commander, inflicted a heavy blow on the numerically superior British army, which suffered 12, 000 casualties against 2, 000 from the opposite side.

In addition, The Verse Account of Nabonidus ( British Museum tablet 38299 ) states, " entrusted the army (?

The British army at least once attempted to use smallpox as a weapon, when they gave contaminated blankets to the Lenape during Pontiac's War ( 1763 – 66 ).

In 1799, British ships harassed Bonaparte's army as it marched east and north through Palestine, and played a crucial part in Bonaparte's defeat at the Siege of Acre, when the barges carrying the siege train were captured and the French storming parties were bombarded by British ships anchored offshore.

In 1801 the demoralised remains of the French army in Egypt were defeated by a British Expeditionary Force ; the Royal Navy used their dominance in the Mediterranean to invade Egypt without the fear of ambush while anchored off the Egyptian coast.

The French and the British used tanks in their pre-blitzkrieg ' traditional ' role of assisting infantry and dispersed across the whole army so there was not concentration of tanks, while the blitzkrieg method of concentrating tanks, even less in number and less capable in ability, led to victorious success.

After the defeat of the French forces under Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile in 1801, the Egyptian antiquities collected were confiscated by the British army and presented to the British Museum in 1803.

The soldiers of Wellington's army who died besieging the citadelle in 1813 are buried in the nearby English Cemetery, visited by Queen Victoria and other British dignitaries when staying in Biarritz.

The army also involved itself in numerous wars meant to pacify the borders, or to prop-up friendly governments, and thereby keep other, competitive, empires away from the British Empire's borders.

The British Army was heavily involved in the Napoleonic Wars in which the army served in multiple campaigns across Europe ( including continuous deployment in the Peninsular War ), the Caribbean, North Africa and later in North America.

The war between the British and the First French Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte stretched around the world and at its peak, in 1813, the regular army contained over 250, 000 men.

The British army also lagged behind other nations in some aspects of their military.

In the Far East, the British army battled the Japanese in Burma.

The Second World War saw the British army develop its Special Air Service, Commando units and the Parachute Regiment.

The Indians and Pakistanis are chafing under similar restrictions on the British market for similar reasons.

Persons who from having been born within British territory are British subjects, but who at birth became under the law of any foreign state subjects of such state, and also persons who though born abroad are British subjects by reason of parentage, may by declarations of alienage get rid of British nationality.

* 1812 – British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

It is noted that most of the engines run on steam, and that an even larger one is under construction at the British Capital in Delhi.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.

* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

He was born in Karachi ( then under British colonial rule ), to Aga Khan II and his third wife, Nawab A ' lia Shamsul-Muluk, who was a granddaughter of Iran Fath Ali Shah of Persia ( Qajar dynasty ).

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

The house was restored to the U. S. in 1818, though the fur trade would remain under British control until American pioneers following the Oregon Trail began filtering into the port town in the mid-1840s.

Tank or " landship " development, originally conducted by the British Navy under the auspices of the Landships Committee was sponsored by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and proceeded through a number of prototypes culminating in the Mark I tank prototype, named Mother.

The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works ( IIC ) was incorporated under British law in 1950 as " a permanent organization to co-ordinate and improve the knowledge, methods, and working standards needed to protect and preserve precious materials of all kinds.

In terms of ultra vires actions in the broad sense, a reviewing court may set aside an administrative decision if it is unreasonable ( under Canadian law, following the rejection of the " Patently Unreasonable " standard by the Supreme Court in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick ), Wednesbury unreasonable ( under British law ), or arbitrary and capricious ( under U. S. Administrative Procedure Act and New York State law ).

The Bonapartes moved to Marseille but in August Toulon offered itself to the British and received the protection of a fleet under Admiral Hood.

12. 5 % () of British Columbia is currently considered protected under one of the 14 different designations that includes over 800 distinct areas.

After appeals by the Batswana leaders Khama III, Bathoen and Sebele for assistance, the British Government on 31 March 1885 put " Bechuanaland " under its protection.

Shortly after establishing the settlement at Port Jackson, on 15 February 1788, Phillip sent Lieutenant Philip Gidley King with 8 free men and a number of convicts to establish the second British colony in the Pacific at Norfolk Island.

The first British person to see Darwin harbour appears to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: 3, 000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.

* Sir Arthur Currie, Lieutenant General, British Army, commanding Canadian Corps

* Sir Frederick E. Morgan, Lieutenant General, British Army

For example, in each Canadian province the role is fulfilled by the Lieutenant Governor, whereas in most British Overseas Territories the powers and duties are performed by the Governor.

A watercolor from the mid-1830s portrays New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor Sir Archibald Campbell and his family in the company of British soldiers on skates engaged in stick-on-ice sport.

John Graves Simcoe ( February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806 ) was a British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 – 1796.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.

In June 1845 75 members of the Auckland Militia under Lieutenant Figg became the first unit to support British Imperial troops in the Flagstaff War, serving as pioneers.

( Norfolk King went on to become the first British Naval officer born in Australia, and was a Lieutenant, commanding the schooner Ballahoo when an American privateer captured her.

* 1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach ( best known as " Blackbeard ") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.

For example, Lieutenant J. Paterson, of the Bengal establishment, persuaded the British Government that sugar cane could be cultivated in British India with many advantages and at less expense than in the West Indies.

* October 9 – War of 1812: American naval forces under Lieutenant Jesse Duncan Elliott capture two British warships, and HMS Caledonia.

The battle was tactically inconclusive but strategically a major defeat for the British, since it prevented the Royal Navy from reinforcing or evacuating the blockaded forces of Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia.

In 1895, a plan was hatched with the connivance of the Cape Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes, Johannesburg gold magnate Alfred Beit, and Sir Alfred Milner ( British High Commissioner for South Africa and Lieutenant Governor of the Cape ) to liberate Johannesburg from the control of the Transvaal government.

The office replaced the previous Lord Lieutenant, who had headed English and British administrations in Ireland since the Middle Ages.

On October 6, 1777, a combined force of roughly 2, 100 Loyalists, Hessians, and British regulars led by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton attacked forts Montgomery and Clinton from the landward side ( where the defenses were only partially completed ).

While the British maintained their forces spread across the Caribbean between Portobelo and Cartagena, in Spain there was an event that would have a decisive value after: started from the gallego port of Ferrol Galicia vessels and San Carlos carrying Lieutenant General of the Royal Armies gift Sebastián de Eslava y Lazaga would replace Don Pedro Hidalgo as governor of Cartagena de Indias.

** Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia

Still, the existence of a Canadian Royal Family is contested, mostly by individuals in Canada's republican movement, but also by former Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia Iona Campagnolo.

Lieutenant John Clarkson was sent to Nova Scotia in British North America to register immigrants to take to Sierra Leone for the purpose of starting a new settlement.

Shearer is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ), a Deputy Lieutenant of Northumberland, a Freeman of Newcastle upon Tyne and an honorary Doctor of Civil Law of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities.

* Tom Wilkinson as Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis: A general of the British army.