By 1783 her legions had managed to annex the Crimea amid scenes of wanton cruelty and now, in this second combat with the Crescent, were aiming at suzerainty over all of the Black Sea's northern shoreline.

By the time the war ended ( 1783 ) Newport's population had fallen from over 9, 000 ( according to the census of 1774 ) to less than 4, 000.

By 1783, it had grown to almost.

By 1783, with the end of the British blockade, the new nation was regaining its prosperity.

By 1783, the Chews concluded that the political situation was safe enough for their family to return to Philadelphia.

By 1783, when received a patent of precedence, he had earnt enough to pay off all his debts and accumulate £ 8 – 9, 000.

By July 1783, Potemkin had engineered the peaceful annexation of the Crimea and Kuban, capitalizing on the fact that Britain and France were fighting elsewhere.

By the end of the war he had become a resident of New Jersey, serving as a member of the New Jersey Legislative Council ( now the New Jersey Senate ) from 1781 to 1783 and delegate from that state to the Continental Congress in 1784 and 1785.

By 6 February 1783, the siege was over.

By 1783 he had amassed of rich, unoccupied land in the west, but it was tied up in litigation.

By October 1783, a lime kiln, hospital, barracks, officers ' quarters, storehouses, and a bakehouse were completed on the site of the old fort.

By 1783 it became clear to Greg that his business needed an increasing quantity of good quality yarn.

By June 1783 each regiment was again recruiting throughout the country, although the county names were to remain.

By the end of 1783, the great 18th century wars which saw the British and French battle from Europe to North America and from the Mediterranean to India, resulted in the British being in complete control of the city's regional and most of South India area.

By 1783 he led the City interest on the company's court, and in 1786 he was reckoned its most able member.

" By 1783, an anti-slavery movement to abolish the slave trade throughout the Empire had begun among the British public.

By February 1783, with peace appearing to near, most of the state's ships had been sold and its sailors dismissed.

By 1783 she was married to Thomas West ( d. 1823 ), a yeoman farmer from Leicestershire.

By early June 1783 the siege was under way.

By the Naturalisation Act 1870, it was made possible for British subjects to renounce their nationality and allegiance, and the ways in which that nationality is lost are defined.

But By the Way was one of the few features kept continuously running in the often seriously reduced Daily Express throughout World War II, when Morton's lampooning of Hitler, including the British invention of bracerot to make the Nazi's trousers fall down at inopportune moments, was regarded as valuable for morale.

By 16: 00, Alexander and Swiftsure were also in sight, although some distance from the main British fleet, and Brueys gave orders to abandon the plan to remain at anchor and instead for his line to set sails, although Blanquet protested the order on the grounds that there were not enough men aboard the French ships to both sail the ships and man the guns.

By 18: 00, the British fleet was again under full sail, Vanguard sixth in the line of ten ships as Culloden trailed behind to the north, and Alexander and Swiftsure hastened to catch up to the west.

By 24: 00 only Tonnant remained engaged, as Commodore Aristide Aubert Du Petit Thouars continued his fight with Majestic and fired on Swiftsure when the British ship moved within range.

By contrast, the British press were jubilant ; many newspapers sought to portray the battle as a victory for Britain over anarchy, and the success was used to attack the supposedly pro-republican Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

By resigning Laws became the shortest serving Minister in modern British political history with less than 18 days service as a Cabinet Minister.

By the last years of the 19th century, The British Museum's collections had increased so much that the Museum building was no longer big enough for them.

By the mid-1950s the system was being used in at least sixty British libraries and in a hundred by the 1970s.

By 1888, over 3, 000 British public houses, grocers and chemists were selling Bovril.

By the end of 1971, 29 barricades were in place to prevent access to what was known as Free Derry, 16 of them impassable even to the British Army's one-ton armoured vehicles.

By the time the inquiry had retired to write up its findings, it had interviewed over 900 witnesses, over seven years, making it the biggest investigation in British legal history.

By 1951 about 20 % of the British economy had been taken into public ownership.

By the 1870s, British physicist William Crookes and others were able to evacuate tubes to a lower pressure, below 10 < sup >− 6 </ sup > atm.

By the mid-19th century, however, the powerful British Empire gave up mercantilism and trade restrictions and introduced the principle of free trade, with few restrictions or tariffs.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

By the late 1970s, two and a half million British homes received their television service via cable.

By the end of the summer however, the plan had changed ; now the British alone would impose the pliant Shuja Shah.

By 1854 the British wanted to resume relations with Dost Mohammad, whom they had essentially ignored in the intervening twelve years.

By the time Sher Ali had established control in Kabul in 1868, he found the British ready to support his regime with arms and funds, but nothing more.

By the end of October, Allen was again off New York, where the British, having secured the city, moved the prisoners on-shore, and, as he was considered an officer, gave Allen limited parole.

By 1949, the United States and British intelligence organizations were working with King Zog and the mountain men of his personal guard.

By the end of the week, British strength stood at over 16, 000 men.

By the end of the week, the British had taken some of the buildings in the Union, but others remained in rebel hands.

By the time British reinforcements arrived in the west, the rising there had already disintegrated.