Great Britain also entered a team at the Olympics Games in 1900 and in 1908, but they were organised separately from the Lions.

He entered the storyline as a young radical, reflecting the youth of 1960s Britain, where figures like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and the model Twiggy were to reshape the concept of youthful rebellion.

Not long after Agricola's recall from Britain, the Roman Empire entered into war with the Kingdom of Dacia in the East.

In 1941, however, the German invasion of the Soviet Union failed, and after the United States entered the war, Britain became the base for massive Anglo-American bombings of German cities.

Before the war broke out, Poland entered into a full military alliance with Britain and France ; the western powers lacked the will to confront Nazi Germany and their ( false ) assurances of imminent military action were only intended as pressure applied to deter Hitler.

After a failed attempt to sign an anti-German military alliance with France and Britain and talks with Germany regarding a potential political deal, on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

Malaysia has been a member of the Commonwealth since independence in 1957, when it entered into the Anglo-Malayan Defence Agreement ( AMDA ) with the United Kingdom whereby Britain guaranteed the defence of Malaya ( and later Malaysia ).

On 25 August, surprising Hitler, Britain entered into a defense pact with Poland.

After Germany entered a Tripartite Pact with Japan and Italy, Ribbentrop wrote to Stalin, inviting Molotov to Berlin for negotiations aimed to create a ' continental bloc ' of Germany, Italy, Japan and the USSR that would oppose Britain and the USA.

According to tradition, the Saxons ( and other tribes ) first entered Britain en masse as part of a deal to protect the Britons from the incursions of the Picts, Gaels, and others.

The first commercial electrical telegraph was co-developed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone, and entered use on the Great Western Railway in Britain.

Pitt was particularly frustrated that, due to the isolationist policies of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, Britain had not entered the War of the Polish Succession which broke out in 1733 and he had not been given a chance to test himself in battle.

These were then forwarded to Britain, where they entered the market in the late 1760s.

People began to prepare the fruit and spice filling months before it was required, storing it in jars, and as Great Britain entered the Victorian age, the addition of meat had, for many, become an afterthought ( although the use of suet remains ).

In other words, on the continent of Europe, dialectics has entered intellectual culture as what might be called a legitimate part of thought and philosophy, whereas in America and Britain, the dialectic plays no discernible part in the intellectual culture, which instead tends toward positivism.

The output of raw sugar slumped between 1986 and 1989, and as a result the government entered into a management agreement with Booke and Tate of Great Britain in August 1991 ; a World Bank loan of US $ 1. 9 million was utilized to provide financial stability.

A long-standing plan of the French had been the concept of an invasion of Great Britain which they hoped would lead to a swift end to the war if it was successful: in 1779 Spain entered the war on the side of France, and the increasingly depleted state of British home forces made an invasion more appealing and Amherst organised Britain's land defences in anticipation of the invasion which never materialised.

In China, France took part in the Second Opium War along with Britain, and in 1860 French troops entered Peking.

French, Spanish, enslaved Africans, and French-Canadians from Acadia expelled after the Seven Years War won by Great Britain, had all entered the area by the end of the 18th century.

Toorians suggests that the name entered Britain during the large settlement of Flemings in Wales in the early 12th century.

In April Austria's navy was on its way to attack Copenhagen and Palmerston saw the Austrian ambassador and informed him that Britain could not allow their navy to sail through the English Channel if their intent was to attack Denmark, and if it entered the Baltic the result would be war with Britain.

Due to consistent ship crashes along the coast, King Osman Mahamuud of the Majeerteen Sultanate, which controlled much of the northeastern Somali seaboard during the 19th century, entered into an informal agreement with Britain.

Bristol Sycamores entered service in 1953 and 16 aircraft were dispersed in Britain for ASW.

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.

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

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.

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 ".

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.