On 22 and 23 June Chinese soldiers and Boxers set fire to areas north and west of the British Legation, using it as a " frightening tactic " to attack the defenders.

The British army reached the legation quarter on the afternoon of August 14 and relieved the Legation Quarter.

All the nationalities in the international force raced to be the first to liberate the besieged Legation Quarter with the British winning the race.

The British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston and Foreign Secretary Lord John Russell had allowed the Alabama to put to sea from the shipyards of John Laird Sons and Company in Birkenhead, despite the explicit objections of the American Legation in London and charges from the American Minister to Britain Charles Francis Adams that the ship was bound for the Confederacy.

From 1860 to 1863 he was in Persia as secretary to the British Legation, publishing on his return The Journal of a Diplomate.

Around the same time as Trenchard was considering his future, the British Legation and some European diplomatic staff based in Kabul were cut off from the outside world as a result of the civil war in Afghanistan.

A plaque also stands at the former site of the British Legation in Washington, D. C. () where the agreement was negotiated.

Refused aid by the French Legation, Faustin was taken into exile aboard a British warship on 22 January 1859.

Lyons ’ private instructions directed him to give Seward seven days to reply and to close the British Legation in Washington and return home if a satisfactory response was not forthcoming.

Within months of his arrival in Seoul, on 24 June 1950, the city was captured by the advancing North Korean Army and Blake was taken prisoner by the communist forces, while he was at the British Legation.

For the present our envoy to be Dr. Eduard Hempel of the German Legation must ascertain whether De Valera desires support and whether he wishes to have his military equipment supplemented by captured British war material ( guns and ammunition ), which could be sent to him in independent ships.

Gubbins was born in Tokyo on 2 July 1896, the younger son and third child of John Harington Gubbins ( 1852 – 1929 ), Oriental Secretary at the British Legation.

The Smiths initially rented a flat, but later moved in with the diplomat Adam Watson, who was working with the British Legation.

After service in the Diplomatic Corps in Peking, he went to Japan as second secretary to the British Legation at the time of the exciting but difficult Meiji Restoration.

The first from 1895 to 1900 ended due to the Boxer Rebellion, during which Allen was forced to flee to the British Legation in Beijing.

In 1861, he was appointed First Secretary of the British Legation in Japan under Minister Plenipotentiary ( later Sir ) Rutherford Alcock, and might have made a successful diplomatic career if it had not been interrupted, almost at the outset, by a nighttime attack on the legation, in which he nearly lost his life.

He was subsequently Air Attaché at the British Embassy in Rome in early 1940 and thereafter was part of the British Legation in Berne, where he assisted Allied airmen who had escaped into Switzerland.

Aston was appointed in 1864 student interpreter to the British Legation in Japan.

He returned to consular duties in Tokyo as Secretary of British Legation in 1885.

On 24 June 1900 at Peking, China, an attack was made on the British Legation by the Boxers who set fire to the stables and occupied some of the other buildings.

Fraser headed the British Legation in Tokyo as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.

The coffin was carried out of the British Legation at 3. 00 pm, and reached St. Andrew's Church at 4. 00 pm.

The anti-assignment statute was held not to prevent the American corporation from suing for a refund of taxes paid by the British corporation.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Under the influence of several younger scholars, a new approach came to predominate among British anthropologists, concerned with analyzing how societies held together in the present ( synchronic analysis, rather than diachronic or historical analysis ), and emphasizing long-term ( one to several years ) immersion fieldwork.

Anthropology in France has a less clear genealogy than the British and American traditions, in part because many French writers influential in anthropology have been trained or held faculty positions in sociology, philosophy, or other fields rather than in anthropology.

Similarly, the language spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and colonization elsewhere and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, held sway over a population of 470 – 570 million people, approximately a quarter of the world's population at that time.

The Nimrud Lens is held in the British Museum.

* 1924: Prospector Albert Ostman claimed to have been abducted by Sasquatch and held captive by the creatures in British Columbia.

As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.

Today it no longer houses collections of natural history, and the books and manuscripts it once held now form part of the independent British Library.

Two investigations have been held by the British government.

The Widgery Tribunal, held in the immediate aftermath of the event, largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame — Widgery described the soldiers ' shooting as " bordering on the reckless "— but was criticised as a " whitewash ", including by Jonathan Powell.

They also run the Great British Beer Festival, a yearly event held in London at which a large selection of cask ales and ciders are tasted.

Historically the British have been the dominant force, winning 14 times out of the 20 times the event has been held.

Census in Kenya was first held in 1948, when Kenya was still a Colony administrated by the British.

Of these, sixteen were held in London, reflecting then-prevailing views of the Commonwealth as the continuation of the Empire and the centralisation of power in the British Commonwealth Office ( the one meeting outside London, in Lagos, was an extraordinary meeting held in January 1966 to coordinate policies towards Rhodesia ).

This combination of events, coupled with an ongoing decline in British military and economic support to the region as the Home Office favoured newer colonial endeavours in Africa and elsewhere, led to a call among Maritime politicians for a conference on Maritime Union, to be held in early September 1864 in Charlottetown-chosen in part because of Prince Edward Island's reluctance to give up its jurisdictional sovereignty in favour of uniting with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into a single colony.

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.

; Royal prerogative: Reserve powers of the Canadian Crown, being remnants of the powers once held by the British Crown, reduced over time by the parliamentary system.

The cladding of red marble applied to the Aedicule by Komminos has deteriorated badly and is detaching from the underlying structure ; since 1947 it has been held in place with an exterior scaffolding of iron girders installed by the British Mandate.

* 1970 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days.

In the same year in which the British Association held its first meeting, Brewster received the honour of knighthood and the decoration of the Royal Guelphic Order.

The British insisted Abdur Rahman accept sovereignty over this remote region where unruly Kyrgyz held sway, he had no choice but to accept Britain's compromise.