He played the leading role in negotiating the treaty with Great Britain that ended the Revolution, and directed America's foreign affairs throughout the Confederation period.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

chief engineer of the radio set division of Electric and Musical Industries, Ltd., the largest electronic equipment manufacturer in Great Britain ; ;

director of engineering at Philco of Great Britain, Ltd., and vice president in charge of production and assistant to the president at The Brush Development Co., Cleveland, Ohio.

He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.

Numerous cooperating individuals in Great Britain, Holland, the United States, and Belgium have contributed editorially or by making calculations.

Besides the editors there were many contributors in the United States and Great Britain to Volumes 1, and 2.

For the first three weeks, the ship skirted up the east coast of Great Britain, then turned westward.

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.

On July 14 the Security Council -- with France and Great Britain abstaining -- voted the resolution which drew the U.N. into the Congo.

Secretary-General Hammarskjold decided that it would be preferable if the U.N. troops sent into the Congo were to come from African, or at least nonwhite, nations -- certainly not from the U.S., Russia, Great Britain or France.

The Trent Affair of late 1861 threatened war with Great Britain.

Category: 1729 in Great Britain

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

With the expansion of the British Empire, and hence the growth of Anglicanism outside Great Britain and Ireland, the Communion sought to establish new vehicles of unity.

* 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

* 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.

* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The best-known and longest-running of these events is the rugby league rivalry between Great Britain and Australia ( see rugby league " Ashes ").

The Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and North America, but perhaps most especially in Great Britain and in New England, led to a proliferation of manufacturing and invention.

Tin was rare, however, being found mostly in Great Britain.

* 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* A small influx of Long-tailed Tits of the white-headed northern race caudatus in the early part of the year gave many British birders their first opportunity to observe this form in Britain.

After the war the bodies were recovered ; 14 were reburied at Blue Beach Military Cemetery and 64 were returned to Britain.

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When under attack by Napoleon in 1805, Karl Wilhelm may have had the French Blue recut to disguise its identity ; in this form, the stone could have come to Britain in 1806, when his family fled there to join his daughter Caroline of Brunswick.

While the diamond had disappeared for several decades, there were questions whether this recovered diamond in Britain was exactly the same one as had belonged to the French king, but subsequent scientific investigation in 2008 confirmed " beyond reasonable doubt " that the Hope Diamond and that owned by the French king were, in fact, the same gemstone in the sense that the Hope Diamond had been cut from the same material as the French Blue.

The city has a variety of sporting and cultural activities and houses several schools including The Blue School, a state coeducational comprehensive school originally founded in 1654 and the independent Wells Cathedral School, which was founded in 909 and is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in Britain.

Nocturne: Blue and Gold-Old Battersea Bridge ( 1872 ), Tate Britain, London, England

Danot made a longer film, Pollux et le chat bleu, in 1970 which was also adapted by Thompson and shown in Britain as Dougal and the Blue Cat.

As the eventual replacement for Blue Steel, he opted for Britain to join the American Skybolt missile development project.

As part of deciding how to implement Blue Streak inconspicuously, the British inadvertently arrived at the concept of the missile launch facility ( missile silos ), although none were actually built in Britain.

Britain then withdrew from ELDO, to concentrate on the Black Arrow, but was committed to supplying ELDO with two Blue Streak rocket stages a year until 1976.

The album and its two singles " Every Shade of Blue " and " Take Me to Your Heart " were only released in some European countries, North America, Japan and Australia, and not in Britain.

With the failure of the 1942 campaign in the east ( Case Blue ), and the buildup of US forces in Africa and Britain, Germany was on the strategic defensive from 1943 onwards.

* Hugh Dowding-commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain in 1940, Blue Plaque at 3 St Mary's Road

* Pre-adhesive mail also called pre-stamp mail is mail used before the issuance of the Penny Black and Two pence Blue stamps on 6 May 1840 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and in other countries, mail used prior to the postal authority adopting their own adhesive labels.

Korats first appeared in Britain under the name " Blue Siamese " in 1889 and 1896, but as these solid blue cats did not conform to the cat show judges ' perception of a Siamese cat they disappeared by 1901.

However, there were some brewpubs which continued to brew their own beer, such as the Blue Anchor in Helston, Cornwall, England, which was established in 1400 and is regarded as the oldest brewpub in Britain.

The British Federation of Musicians would not permit him to perform there because no agreement existed for British show bands to travel to America in exchange for the Blue Boys playing in Britain.

The Penny Blue is an unissued type of postage stamp of Britain.

Blue Underground toured an uncut print around Britain without a BBFC certificate, with Southampton City Council granting the uncut version its own 18 certificate.

It is believed to have descended from the black and tan terrier-type dogs of Britain and Ireland, just like the Kerry Blue and Irish Soft-haired Wheaten Terriers in Ireland or the Welsh, Lakeland and Scottish Terriers in Great Britain.

* Blue ( co-production with BBC Radio 3 and Arts Council of Great Britain )

The Blue Danube premiered in the United States in its instrumental version on 1 July 1867 in New York, and in Great Britain in its choral version on 21 September 1867 in London at the promenade concerts at Covent Garden.