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The British general moved his forces north from Philadelphia to Chestnut Hill, near the right wing of the patriot encampment.
In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.
Julius's work with the ICS brought the family to British India, where his grandfather had been a general in the Bengal Army.
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 ).
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 the British general election the following year, Michael Howard promised to work towards having the prohibition removed if the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats in the House of Commons, but the election was won by Blair's Labour Party.
In 1918, the British Mk V tank was capable of carrying a small number of troops and in 1944, the Canadian general Guy Simonds ordered the conversion of redundant armoured vehicles to carry troops ( generically named " Kangaroos ").
Between the wars the British developed the Birch gun, a general purpose artillery piece on an armoured tracked chassis capable of maintaining formation with their current tanks.
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 the 1920s, the Labour Party permanently replaced the Liberals as the largest opponent of the Conservative Party in British politics, and the Liberals went into decline, which culminated in their winning as few as 6 seats at general elections during the 1950s.
British general John Moore, who met Nelson in Naples at this time, described him as " covered with stars, medals and ribbons, more like a Prince of Opera than the Conqueror of the Nile.
A board of 25 trustees ( with the Director as their accounting officer for the purposes of reporting to Government ) is responsible for the general management and control of the Museum, in accordance with the British Museum Act 1963 and the Museums and Galleries Act 1992.
The Anthropology Library is especially large, with 120, 000 volumes However, the Paul Hamlyn Library, which had become the central reference library of the British Museum and the only library there freely open to the general public, closed permanently in August 2011.
Products are commonly specified as meeting a particular British Standard, and in general this can be done without any certification or independent testing.
Attlee's first Health Secretary, Aneurin Bevan, fought against the general disapproval of the medical establishment by creating the British National Health Service, a publicly funded healthcare system offering treatment free at the point of use.
Although there are often disputes about its organisation and funding, British parties to this day must still voice their general support for the NHS in order to remain electable.
* Lord Beginner's song " General Election " was inspired by Attlee's victory in the 1950 British general election.
When the British general Caractacus was captured in 50, Claudius granted him clemency.
In 1973, British psychologist Glenn Wilson published an influential book providing evidence that a general factor underlying conservative beliefs is " fear of uncertainty ".
There was a general reduction in the number of cavalry regiments in the British, French, Italian and other Western armies but it was still argued with conviction ( for example in the 1922 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica ) that mounted troops had a major role to play in future warfare.
The official birth of the term " stab-in-the-back " itself possibly can be dated to the autumn of 1919, when Ludendorff was dining with the head of the British Military Mission in Berlin, British general Sir Neill Malcolm.
Both Belloc and Chesterton opposed British imperialism in general, as well as specifically opposing the Second Boer War, but supported British involvement in World War I.
The Afghan leader did not follow up this triumph by retaking Peshawar, however, but instead contacted Lord Auckland, the new British governor general in British India, for help in dealing with the Sikhs.

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* J. L. Austin ( 1911 – 1960 ), British philosopher
* 2011: Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema ( Harry Potter series, joined by J. K. Rowling, David Heyman, David Barron, David Yates and Mike Newell, shared with Harry Potter cast and crew )
* 1884 – J. C. Squire, British poet, writer, and historian ( d. 1958 )
British military historians J. F. C.
British theorists J. F. C.
* Turner, Michael J. British Politics in an Age of Reform.
The first computer using a multiprogramming system was the British Leo III owned by J. Lyons and Co .. Several different programs in batch were loaded in the computer memory, and the first one began to run.
In 1897 British physicist J. J. Thomson showed the rays were composed of a previously unknown negatively charged particle, which was later named the electron.
They both viewed the work of British landscape artists John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, which confirmed to their belief that their style of open air painting gave the truest depiction of light and atmosphere, an effect that they felt could not be achieved in the studio alone.
The scheme was first published by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in 1976, although it was later alleged that it had been separately invented a few years earlier within GCHQ, the British signals intelligence agency, by Malcolm J. Williamson but was kept classified.
In 1849, he acted as president of the British Association and was elected one of the eight foreign associates of the Institute of France in succession to J. J. Berzelius ; and ten years later, he accepted the office of principal of the University of Edinburgh, the duties of which he discharged until within a few months of his death.
* 1888 – J. Arthur Rank, British film producer ( d. 1972 )
Later the project was supported by J. Lyons & Co. Ltd., a British firm, who were rewarded with the first commercially applied computer, LEO I, based on the EDSAC design.
It is generally regarded that the British film industry enjoyed a ' golden age ' in the 1940s, led by the studios of J. Arthur Rank and Alexander Korda.
Towards the end of the 1940s, the Rank Organisation, founded in 1937 by J. Arthur Rank, became the dominant force behind British film-making.
* 1935 – J. Henry Birtles, British rugby player ( b. 1874 )
" Between 1945 and 1947, with A. J. Ayer and Bertrand Russell, he contributed a series of articles and essays to Polemic, a short-lived British " Magazine of Philosophy, Psychology, and Aesthetics " edited by the ex-Communist Humphrey Slater.
Within months of British Brigadier A. J.
" J. Edgar Hoover complained that Burgess used British Embassy automobiles to avoid arrest when he cruised Washington in pursuit of homosexual encounters.
Electroluminescence as a phenomenon was discovered in 1907 by the British experimenter H. J.
In this context he discusses the British computer firms J. Lyons and Company, English Electric, and International Computers Ltd.
Though The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature sees modernism ending by c. 1939 ,< ref > Kevin J. H. Dettmar " Modernism ".
while in British literature, The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature sees modernism " ceding its predominance to postmodernism " as early as 1939 .< ref > J.

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