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From the British side the camp was attended by Mortimer Durand and Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, Political Agent Khyber.
During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.
On 1 April 1923, Shaikh Ahmad al-Sabah wrote the British Political Agent in Kuwait, Major John More, " I still do not know what the border between Iraq and Kuwait is, I shall be glad if you will kindly give me this information.
* 1914 – Eddie Chapman, British World War II spy and double agent, aka Agent Zigzag ( d. 1997 )
Examples are Ashenden or: the British Agent ( 1928 ) by W. Somerset Maugham, about counter-revolutionary British espionage against Bolshevik Russia, and The Mystery of Tunnel 51 ( 1928 ) by Alexander Wilson whose novels conveyed an uncanny portrait of the first head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the original ' C '.
* British Agent ( 1934 ), based on the memoirs of Bruce-Lockhart, portraying the Russian Revolution
* Secret Agent ( 1936 film ), British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Kitchener then returned to Egypt as British Agent and Consul-General ( de facto administrator ).
Kitchener then returned to Egypt as British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt ( the job formerly held by Lord Cromer ) and of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ( 1911 – 1914, during the formal reign of Abbas Hilmi II as Khedive ( nominally Ottoman monarch ) of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, of the Sudan, of Kordofan and of Darfur ).
F. L. Lucas's novel The English Agent – A Tale of the Peninsular War ( 1969 ), about the Battle of Bailén and its aftermath, is the account of a British Army officer who, gathering information before the first British landings, buys a Frenchwoman at auction to save her from the Spanish mob.
In February 1998, the British Ministry of Defence accused Iraq of having stockpiled large amounts of a glycolate anticholinergic incapacitating agent known as Agent 15.
# A British Agent shall be allowed to reside in Zululand, who will see that the above provisions are carried out.
) ( 1962 ), playing sadistic Lieutenant Scott-Padget, co-starring Sir Alec Guinness ; I Could Go On Singing ( 1963 ), co-starring Judy Garland in her final screen role ; Hot Enough for June, ( aka " Agent 8¾ ") ( 1964 ), a James Bond-type spy spoof co-starring Robert Morley ; Modesty Blaise ( 1966 ), a campy spy send-up playing archvillain Gabriel opposite Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp and directed by Joseph Losey ; The Fixer ( 1968 ), based on Bernard Malamud's novel, co-starring Alan Bates ; Sebastian ( 1968 ), as Sebastian, a mathematician working on code decryption, who falls in love with Susannah York, a decrypter in the all-female decoding office he heads for British Intelligence, also co-starring Sir John Gielgud, and Lilli Palmer, co-produced by Michael Powell ; Oh!
Cox met ibn Saud and Major John More, the British Political Agent to Kuwait.
The Creek Indians of Georgia and Alabama had become divided into two factions: the Upper Creeks ( or Red Sticks ), a majority who opposed the American expansion and sided with the British and Spanish during the War of 1812, and the Lower Creek, who were more assimilated, had a stronger relationship with the US Indian Agent Benjamin Hawkins, and sought to remain on good terms with the Americans.
From the British side, the camp was attended by Mortimer Durand and Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, Political Agent Khyber Agency representing the British Viceroy and Governor General.
The historian Donald C. Simmons thinks that Benjamin may have considered joining his brother Joseph Benjamin, Colin J. McRae, the former Confederate Financial Agent in Europe, and other Confederates at New Richmond, British Honduras, in the Confederate settlements.
James Pond, also known as James Pond: Underwater Agent, is a platform video game that was developed by British video game developers Vectordean Ltd and Millennium Interactive, and published by Millennium Interactive and Electronic Arts for numerous home computers and consoles in 1990.
The film opens with a fantasy sequence in which Johnny English ( Atkinson ), an inept British Intelligence agent, is " Agent One ".
Danger Man ( titled Secret Agent, Destination Danger and John Drake in non-UK markets ) is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968.
John Drake was the debonair and duty-bound secret agent played by Patrick McGoohan in the British television series Danger Man ( 1960 – 1962, 1964 – 1966 ) ( known in the US as Secret Agent ).

British and Consul
* 1898 – 700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
Gifts and purchases from Henry Salt, British Consul General in Egypt, beginning with the Colossal bust of Ramesses II in 1818, laid the foundations of the collection of Egyptian Monumental Sculpture.
William Sunley, a planter and British Consul from 1848-1866, was an influence on Anjouan.
The report of the British Consul Roger Casement led to the arrest and punishment of white officials who had been responsible for cold-blooded killings during a rubber-collecting expedition in 1903, including one Belgian national for causing the shooting of at least 122 Congolese natives.
1, 083 Christian slaves and the British Consul were freed and the US ransom money of $ 10, 000 was repaid by the Ottoman pasha.
In 1861 Severn was appointed British Consul in Rome during the ferment over Italian unification.
Although the official position of the British government on " The Roman Question " was neutrality and nonintervention, Severn often took diplomatic action that his superiors viewed as exceeding his mandate as Consul.
In September 1937, the British Consul in Munich, writing about the group Ribbentrop had brought to the Nuremberg Party Rally, reported that there were some " serious persons of standing among them " and that an equal number of Ribbentrop's British contingent were " eccentrics and few, if any, could be called representatives of serious English thought, either political or social, while they most certainly lacked any political or social influence in England ".
During the October Crisis of 1970, the Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnapped British Trade Consul James Cross at his residence on the fifth of October.
Budge's plan to return to the museum with the papyrus was unacceptable to the British Consul and to the Egyptian Service of Antiquities so he resorted to desperate measures.
In Israel there are two ceremonies, the first being in Jerusalem, at Mount Scopus Commonwealth Cemetery on the Saturday before Remembrance Sunday, organized by the British Consul in Jerusalem.
In 1801, the British government issued statements blaming the French Consul for not supplying sufficient clothing ( the British government had paid the French for all English prisoners held in France and French colonies to be clothed ).
It is, however, based on the fact that there were widespread demonstrations in the area, sparked off by the arrival of the Potemkin in Odessa Harbour, and both The Times of London and the resident British Consul reported that troops fired on the crowds with accompanying loss of life ( the actual number of casualties is unrecorded ).
The French First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte, first made truce proposals to British foreign secretary Lord Grenville as early as 1799.
In response, on 22 May 1803 ( 2 Prairial, year XI ), the First Consul suddenly ordered the imprisonment of all British males between the ages of 18 and 60 in France, trapping many travelling civilians.
" A 1936 report went further, proclaiming her " more Nazi than the Nazis " and stated that she gave the Hitler salute to the British Consul General in Munich, who immediately requested that her passport be impounded.
Following the election and an increased majority for Palmerston, the voices within the Whig faction who were in support of China were hushed, and the new parliament decided to seek redress from China based on the report about the Arrow Incident submitted by Harry Parkes, British Consul to Guangzhou.
During the 1820s, the British Consul General to Egypt, Henry Salt, sent several further portraits to Paris and London.
The British Consul at Canton, Harry Parkes, protested against this insult to the flag and demanded an apology.
The Ford Taunus 17M of 1957 was as long as ( though significantly narrower than ) the British Consul Mk2, but a different car.
The report of the British Consul Roger Casement led to the arrest and punishment of white officials who had been responsible for killings during a rubber-collecting expedition in 1903 ( including one Belgian national for causing the shooting of at least 122 Congolese people ).
Roger Casement, then the British Consul at Boma ( at the mouth of the Congo River ), delivered a long, detailed eyewitness report which was published in 1904.

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