It was a matter of principle with Churchill, since Britain had declared war in behalf of Poland.

Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939.

On the day that Britain declared war on Germany, he wrote to the Foreign Office about recruiting " men of the professor type ".

In March 1807, Britain, which largely controlled the Atlantic, declared the trans-atlantic slave trade illegal, as did the United States.

CND's declared policies were the unconditional renunciation of the use, production of or dependence upon nuclear weapons by Britain and the bringing about of a general disarmament convention.

* 1649 – The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland.

The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states of the United States of America and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and became the first states in the Union.

Both France and Great Britain were ready to fight for control of the region and both sent troops to North America in 1755 ; war was formally declared in 1756.

* 1779 June – In the midst of the American Revolutionary War, Spain declared war against Great Britain ( as France had done the year before )

One more consequence of the catastrophe at the battle of Edessa was that Gallienus lost control over the two provinces of Germania, Britain, Spain and a large part of Gaul, when another general, Postumus, had declared his own realm ( typically known today as the Gallic Empire ).

The very next day, Britain declared war on Germany, greatly unimpressing the increasingly cynical Gardner.

Britain and France declared war and World War II began – somewhat sooner than the Nazis expected or were ready for.

Britain declared much of the area a Protectorate in 1740, though they exercised little authority as a result of this decision.

The Roman Senate declared a 20-day public holiday in Rome in honour of the unprecedented achievement of obtaining hostages from Britain and defeating Belgian tribes on returning to the continent.

French brigadier general Charles de Gaulle declared himself on Radio Londres to be the head of a rival government in exile, and gathered the Free French Forces around him, finding support in some French colonies and recognition from Britain and the USA.

Prince Charles of Britain surveyed the new site with curiosity, and declared it " marvelous, very exciting ".

China formally declared war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Dowager Empress Cixi.

When World war II started, Viceroy Linlithgow had unilaterally declared India a belligerent on the side of the Britain, without consulting the elected Indian representatives.

" When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, contact with his Soviet controllers was lost and Philby failed to attend meetings.

Britain has closed its embassy ; ECOWAS has declared an embargo against Mali, aiming to squeeze out Malinese oil supplies ; closed Mali's assets in the ECOWAS regional bank and has prepared a potential intervention force of 3, 000 troops.

Britain and France responded by guaranteeing the sovereignty of Poland, so they declared war on Germany on 3 September.

In Die Welt, a communist newspaper published in Stockholm the exiled communist leader Walter Ulbricht opposed the allies ( Britain representing “ the most reactionary force in the world ”) and argued: “ The German government declared itself ready for friendly relations with the Soviet Union, whereas the English-French war bloc desires a war against the socialist Soviet Union.

In 1776, the Thirteen Colonies, acting through the Second Continental Congress, declared political independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution.

#: The United States and Britain declared that they would support the transfer of Königsberg and the adjacent area to the Soviet Union at the peace conference.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

Captain Heard did not communicate with any strange vessels because of the possibility of war between the United States and Britain.

`` U.S. pressure on Britain to foster war hysteria over the status of West Berlin has reached its apogee.

The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.

The Trent Affair of late 1861 threatened war with Great Britain.

Lincoln resolved the issue by releasing the two men and war was successfully averted with Britain.

He then returned to Britain to continue the war against the Saxons.

" It is highly probable that the correct information about the sulphonamide did not reach the newspapers because, since the original sulphonamide antibacterial, Prontosil, had been a discovery by the German laboratory Bayer, and as Britain was at war with Germany at the time, it was thought better to raise British morale by associating Churchill's cure with the British discovery, penicillin.

In 1778 Britain was again at war, and Phillip was recalled to active service, and in 1779 obtained his first command, HMS Basilisk.

There was fear that Britain would soon be at war with these powers as a consequence of the Batavian revolution in the Netherlands.

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.

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.

Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.

However, the French Navy was dominant in the Mediterranean Sea, following the withdrawal of the British fleet after the outbreak of war between Britain and Spain in 1796.

The campaign would sever the chain of communication that connected Britain with India, an essential part of her Empire whose trade links generated the wealth Britain required to prosecute the war successfully.

J. P. Harris states that most Luftwaffe leaders from Goering through the general staff believed as did their counterparts in Britain and the United States that strategic bombing was the chief mission of the air force and that given such a role, the Luftwaffe would win the next war and that:

In 1914, war broke out in Europe between Britain with allies and Germany, Austria-Hungary and later that year, the Ottoman Empire.

Other pre-war processes in Britain were inadequate to meet the increased demand in World War I, and a shortage of cordite would have severely hampered Britain's war effort.

This led to disappointment in Britain, as many believed that Florida was a poor return for Cuba and Britain's other gains in the war.

The war set in motion profound social changes within Britain and led to a popular desire for social reform.

Labour campaigned on the theme of " Let Us Face the Future " and positioned themselves as the party best placed to rebuild Britain after the war, while the Conservatives ' campaign centred around Churchill.