For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.

For instance member nations of the Commonwealth where English is not spoken natively, such as India, often closely follow British English forms, while many American English usages are followed in other countries which have been historically influenced by the United States, such as the Philippines.

For many years he was the British postmaster for the colonies, which enabled him to set up the first national communications network.

For example, he approved of the occupation of Egypt by British forces in 1882.

For instance, John Stuart Mill famously suggested that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".

For example, John Yarwood of Melbourne is the first person to take a serious interest in British military money ( especially tokens ).

For instance, the British spelling of the word cheque probably relates to Canada's once-important ties to British financial institutions.

For instance prior to 1914 most officers of British cavalry regiments came from a socially privileged background and the considerable expenses associated with their role generally required private means, even after it became possible for officers of the line infantry regiments to live on their pay.

For example, in the Opium War in China, during the 19th century, British battleships bombarded the coastal areas and fortifications from afar, safe from the reach of the Chinese cannon.

For example, it is correct British English or American English usage to say: " None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.

For example, in British Columbia, Justice of Peace can only issue summon to the offender for Contempt, for which will be dealt with by a judge, even if the offence was done at the face of the Justice.

For political reasons, analyzing these varieties as " languages " or " dialects " yields inconsistent results: British and American English, spoken by close political and military allies, are almost universally regarded as dialects of a single language, whereas the standard languages of Serbia and Croatia, which differ from each other to a similar extent as the dialects of English, are being treated by some linguists from the region as distinct languages, largely because the two countries oscillate from being brotherly to being bitter enemies.

For instance, Idi Amin Dada, who had been a British army lieutenant prior to Uganda's independence from Britain in October 1962, subsequently styled himself as " His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada,,, Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular ".

For over a century, British and American lexicographers glossed the pronunciation of Taoism as, but more recently they changed it to, and added Daoism entries.

Strand produced films for the MOI ; Thomas scripted at least five films in 1942, This Is Colour ( a history of the British dyeing industry ) and New Towns For Old ( on post-war reconstruction ).

For the British it had come at a time when they were still recovering from the First World War.

For the British Empire and colonies, a determination of the date of Easter Sunday using Golden Numbers and Sunday letters was defined by the Calendar ( New Style ) Act 1750 with its Annexe.

For the period from 1877 to 1947 when British Emperors ruled colonial India as the pearl in the crown of the British Empire, see above.

For 20 years, Yale was part of the British East India Company, and he became the second governor of a settlement at Madras ( now Chennai ), India, in 1687, after Streynsham Master.

For their influences the new generation of film-makers looked to Italian neorealism, the French Nouvelle Vague and the British New Wave but combined this eclectically with references to the well-established genres of Hollywood cinema.

For example, according to a 2008 study by Ipsos, the number of British fantasy sports players aged 16 – 64 is estimated to range between 5. 5 and 7. 5 million.

For a brief period in the 1790s the British attempted to establish a rival foothold on an offshore island, at Bolama, but by the 19th century the Portuguese were sufficiently secure in Bissau to regard the neighbouring coastline as their own special territory.

For instance, there have been two Presidential Commissions on higher education since World War 2.

For a period after World War I, Steiner was extremely active and well known in Germany, in part because he lectured widely proposing social reforms.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.

For the remainder of the War on the Western Front cavalry had virtually no role to play.

For this reason, among others, Khrushchev made West Berlin the central battlefield of the Cold War.

For example, there were no more than five civil wars underway simultaneously in the first half of the 20th century, while over 20 concurrent civil wars were occurring at the end of the Cold War, before a significant decrease as conflicts strongly associated with the superpower rivalry came to an end.

For instance, many periodization schemes use the First Opium War as the starting point for the modern period.

For example, the Central Committee voted for or against signing a peace treaty with the Germans between 1917 and 1918 during World War I ; the majority voted in favour of peace when Trotsky backed down in 1918.

For seventy-four years ( 1689-1763 ) there were six colonial wars, which involved continuous warfare between New England and Acadia ( see the French and Indian Wars as well as Father Rale's War and Father Le Loutre's War ).

For example, President Wilson proposed the Treaty of Versailles after World War I after consulting with allied powers, but this treaty was rejected by the U. S. Senate ; as a result, the U. S. subsequently made separate agreements with different nations.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.

For Hitler himself, this explanatory model for World War I was of crucial personal importance.

For assistance against the Order, the Confederation asked for help from King Casimir IV of Poland ; Casimir's subsequent claiming of Prussia led to the Thirteen Years ' War.

For this reason land warfare played a secondary role in the First Punic War.

For example, boric acid was widely used as a food preservative from the 1870s to the 1920s, but was banned after World War I due to its toxicity, as demonstrated in animal and human studies.

For example, in February 1988, Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly ethnic Armenian region in the Azerbaijan SSR, passed a resolution calling for unification with the Armenian SSR, which sparked the Nagorno-Karabakh War.

* For Whom the Bell Tolls, an Ernest Hemingway novel which tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer attached to a guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War.

For Hungary, this is a history of more than 400 years of domination by great powers — the Ottomans, the Habsburg dynasty, the Germans during World War II, and the Soviets during the Cold War -- and a geography of regional instability and separation from Hungarian minorities living in neighboring countries.

For this action, Philoctetes or Poeas received Heracles ' bow and arrows, which were later needed by the Greeks to defeat Troy in the Trojan War.

For example, prior to World War I, unrestricted submarine warfare was considered a violation of international law and ostensibly the casus belli for the United States ' declaration of war against Germany.

* Medal " For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 "