In Alfred Duggan's Conscience of the King, a historical novel about Cerdic, founder of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, Ambrosius Aurelianus is a Romano-British general who rose independently to military power, forming alliances with various British kings and setting out to drive the invading Saxons from Britain.

In 60 – 61, while Governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was campaigning in Wales, the southeast of Britain rose in revolt under the leadership of Boudica.

As a consequence, after Munich, Britain was considered to be the main enemy of the Reich, and as a result, the influence of ardently Anglophobic Ribbentrop correspondingly rose with Hitler.

The number of working days lost in the country due to strikes rose sharply to more than 25, 000, 000 in 1984, though most of these were miners on strike, and from then on the number of working days lost in Britain due to strikes remained in the low millions.

Though Britain and its allies were ultimately victorious, the United States and the Soviet Union rose as pre-eminent world powers and the British Empire declined.

The War of 1812 began between Great Britain and the United States, and tensions rose on the northern frontier.

Sarah Churchill ( née Jenyns, spelt Jennings in most modern references ), Duchess of Marlborough ( 5 June 1660 ( old style ) – 18 October 1744 ) rose to be one of the most influential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with Queen Anne of Great Britain.

He then served as ambassador to Prussia ( 1821 ) and the Kingdom of Great Britain ( 1822 ), and even rose to the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs ( 28 December 1822 – 4 August 1824 ).

The first popular recognition of the singer-songwriter in English-speaking North America and Great Britain occurred in the 1960s and early 1970s when a series of blues, folk and country-influenced musicians rose to prominence and popularity.

George Grenville ( 14 October 1712 – 13 November 1770 ) was a British Whig statesman who rose to the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain.

The single beat Warwick's recording into the UK charts and rose to No. 1 in Britain in February 1964 ( spending 3 weeks there ), selling 800, 000 copies in the UK in the process.

The scope for swifter cuts in interest rates was squeezed by an event that few had anticipated when Britain joined the ERM: based on OECD indices of consumer prices, inflation in Germany, which had been 2. 7 % in 1990, rose to 5. 1 % in 1992, whilst in Britain inflation fell from 7. 0 % to 4. 3 %.

As tensions rose between Britain and the colonies in the 1770s, Howe continued to rise through the ranks, and came to be widely regarded as one of the best officers in the army.

Until the Union, the cruciform shields on the reverse showed the arms of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland in order, separated by sceptres and with a central rose, and the legend (" Of Great Britain, France, and Ireland Queen ").

Rose hips of some species, especially Rosa canina ( Dog Rose ) and R. majalis, have been used as a source of vitamin C. During World War II, the people of Britain were encouraged through letters to The Times newspaper, articles in the British Medical Journal, and pamphlets produced by Claire Loewenfeld, a dietitian working for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, to gather wild-grown rose hips and to make a vitamin C syrup for children.

Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton GCB ( August 1758 – 18 June 1815 ) was a Welsh British Army officer who fought in a number of campaigns for Britain, and rose to the rank of lieutenant general.

The end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 brought a renewed flood of both convicts and settlers to New South Wales, as the sea lanes became free and as the rate of unemployment and crime in Britain rose.

As the sport in Britain entered a new era it would be two years before Huddersfield rose again to the top level of the game.

American steel production rose to surpass the combined total of Britain, Germany, and France.

As the sport in Britain entered a new era, it would be ten years before Rovers rose again to the top level of the game.

As the Jurassic period began, Pangaea began to break up, sea levels rose and Britain and Ireland drifted on the Eurasian Plate to between 30 ° and 40 ° north.

About two centuries later, Britain began importing cotton from the USA and as Newmilns by this time had a long-established weaving tradition, the town's handloom industry rose to national prominence.

The college flourished during the 19th century: the Society of Jesus was re-established in Britain at Stonyhurst in 1803, and over the century, student numbers rose from the original twelve migrants from Liège.

The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, later known as the Quasi-War.

Although Louisbourg was captured by New Englanders with British naval assistance in 1745 and by the British again in 1758, Île Royale remained formally part of colonial France until it was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

With the removal of the German High Seas Fleet in 1919, Britain had no naval enemies, and at the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 it was agreed that the USA, Britain and Japan should set their navies in a ratio of 5: 5: 3, with France and Italy maintaining smaller fleets.

When the United States began to expand her navy in the 1930s, she would surpass Britain as the world's premier naval power.

Within days, Philip received a command from his cousin and sovereign, King George II of Greece, to resume his naval career in Britain which, though given without explanation, the young prince obeyed.

* 1922 – The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D. C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.

Furthermore, Anglo – German relations cooled as Germany aggressively tried to build a new empire and engaged in a naval race with Britain ; London refused to agree to the formal alliance that Germany sought.

In 1890, Germany had gained the island of Heligoland in the North Sea from Britain in exchange for the eastern African island of Zanzibar, and proceeded to construct a great naval base there.

Around 396 there were increasing barbarian incursions into Britain, and an expedition — possibly led by Stilicho — brought naval action against the raiders.

* 1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.

Great Britain became the only major power in the Atlantic, and as it increased naval pressure against Napoleon, it inadvertently did the same against American ships.

Churchill – referring to the fact that a German naval victory would have made it impossible for Britain to supply her army in France, or even import food – described Jellicoe later as ' the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon '.

Formally neutral and reluctant to become involved with the great powers except as a last resort, Kuwait turned to the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain for naval protection of its tanker fleet after twenty-one ships were attacked in the gulf since late 1986.

After naval studies in England between 1871 and 1878, Togo's role as Chief Admiral of the Grand Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War made him a legend in Japanese military history, and earned him the nickname ' Nelson of the Orient ' in Britain.

The result was a naval arms race with Britain as the German navy grew to become one of the greatest maritime forces in the world, second only to the Royal Navy.

As British public opinion was turned against Germany, Admiral Sir John Fisher twice – in 1904 and 1908 – proposed using Britain ’ s current naval superiority to ' Copenhagen ' the German fleet, that is, to launch preemptive strikes against the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases as the Royal Navy had done against the Danish navy in 1801 and 1807.

Britain had to maintain a fleet throughout the world and consider other naval powers, whereas the German fleet could be concentrated in German waters.

The policy of commencing what amounted to a naval arms race did not properly consider how Britain might respond.

His attempted solution was to initiate negotiations with Britain for an agreed slow down in naval building.

The effect was to raise concerns in Britain over Germany's expansionist aims, and encouraged Britain to form a closer relationship with France, including naval cooperation.

Adam Smith himself, for instance, praised the Navigation Acts as they greatly expanded the British merchant fleet, and played a central role in turning Britain into the naval and economic superpower from the 18th Century onward.

Debates in Parliament had included expressions of concern about Russian naval expansion in the northern Pacific, pointed out that the sole naval defence consisted of one 24 gun frigate, and the time it would take for Britain to come to the colonies aid.