* ' BT ' is also an abbreviation of British metalcore band Bury Tomorrow.

Bullet for My Valentine, from Wales, broke into the top 5 in both the U. S. and British charts with their metalcore, a mixture of metal and hardcore, with Scream Aim Fire ( 2008 ).

* Architects ( British band ), a metalcore band from Brighton, UK.

* The Animals, a British rock band

* Atomic Rooster, a British progressive rock band

Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

* Atmosfear, a British jazz-funk band active in the 1970s

* ANS ( album ), a box set from the British band Coil

* ANS ( single ), a single by the British band Coil

More recently, the horn section of Antibalas have been guest musicians on TV On The Radio's highly acclaimed 2008 album Dear Science, as well as on British band Foals ' 2008 album, Antidotes.

In recent times, it has become customary to invite units from France's allies to the parade ; in 2004 during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, British troops ( the band of the Royal Marines, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Grenadier Guards and King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ) led the Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time, with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

* Benz ( group ), British band

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

* Blitz ( band ), a British punk rock band

The " British brass band " group of instruments fall into this category.

In 2009, Charles formed the Fantasy Funk Band, from the leading British musicians in the genre, and has presented the band at festivals, including Glastonbury.

* Cyan was a British progressive rock band from the 1980s and 1990s.

* Cleopatra ( band ), a British girl group

* Cradle of Filth, a popular British extreme metal band, has produced an album called Dusk ... and Her Embrace inspired by " Carmilla ", and have also recorded an instrumental track titled " Carmilla's Masque ".

* The Chords, 1970s British mod revival band

British style brass band ensembles consist completely of brass instruments ( except for the percussion section ).

* The Creation ( band ), a British band

In 1985, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion achieved their only UK Number One album-and the best-selling album of their career-with Misplaced Childhood, a concept album featuring lyrics by frontman Fish which were partly autobiographical.

* Clone ( Threshold album ), a 1998 album by British progressive metal band Threshold

In the Hauran in Syria, where timber is scarce the doors were made in stone, and one measuring by is in the British Museum ; the band on the meeting stile shows that it was one of the leaves of a double door.

* Discharge ( band ), British hardcore punk band

In spring 2011, Bach was interviewed by British metal band Asking Alexandria in the March / April issue of Revolver.

* Asking A Shadow To Dance: 35 Young British Poets For Oxfam-2009 ( DVD )

*" Hiatus ", a song by British Metalcore band Asking Alexandria

The French initially reported just 11 British ships, as Swiftsure and Alexander were still returning from their scouting operations at Alexandria, and so were to the west of the main fleet, out of sight.

Nelson's plan, shaped through discussion with his senior captains during the return voyage to Alexandria, was to advance on the French and pass down the seaward side of the van and centre of the French line, so that each French ship would face two British ships and the massive Orient would be fighting against three.

* 1882 – The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.

* 1801 – The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.

Meanwhile, British troops defeated the French in Egypt in 1801, and the original stone came into British possession under the Capitulation of Alexandria.

When Hutchinson claimed all materials were property of the British Crown, a French scholar, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, said to Clarke and Hamilton that they would rather burn all their discoveries — referring ominously to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria — than turn them over.

Eventually an agreement was reached, and the transfer of the objects was incorporated into the Capitulation of Alexandria signed by representatives of the British, French and Ottoman forces.

* July 11 – British troops occupy Alexandria and the Suez Canal.

* August 28 – Alexandria, Virginia, offers surrender to the British fleet without a fight.

On 26 October, a Brotherhood member, Mohammed Abdel Latif, attempted to assassinate Nasser while he was delivering a speech in Alexandria, celebrating the British withdrawal.

* 1941: The Italian Navy's Decima Flottiglia MAS using oxygen rebreathers and manned torpedoes, attacks the British fleet in Alexandria harbor.

* Alexandria, British Columbia

Hobsbawm was born in 1917 at Alexandria, Egypt, to Leopold Percy Hobsbaum, a British colonial officer of Polish-Jewish descent, and Nelly Grün, who was from a middle-class Austrian Jewish family background, and his early childhood was spent in Vienna, Austria, and Berlin, Germany.

It is speculated by the publication, the town is named after Arabi Pasha ( a mis-transliteration of his actual name Ahmed ' Urabi ) who torched Alexandria, Egypt in 1882 while fighting for independence from the British.

A large Ottoman-Egyptian fleet, which had been warned by the British and French to stay away from Greece, left Alexandria on 5 August 1827 and joined other Ottoman units at Navarino on 8 September.

British admiral Codrington ( centre ) negotiating with Muhammad Ali Pasha in the latter's palace in Alexandria, Egypt ( 1828 ).

The Battle of Alexandria or Battle of Canope, fought on March 21, 1801 between the French army under General Menou and the British expeditionary corps under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, took place near the ruins of Nicopolis, on the narrow spit of land between the sea and Lake Abukir, along which the British troops had advanced towards Alexandria after the actions of Abukir on March 8 and Mandora on March 13.

The British position on the night of March 20th extended across the isthmus, the right wing resting upon the ruins of Nicopolis and the sea, the left on the lake of Abukir and the Alexandria canal.

The British advanced upon Alexandria and laid siege to it.

In addition the British Mediterranean Fleet based at Alexandria, which controlled the eastern end of the Mediterranean, there was a need to replace French naval power in the west.