The present attempts of the politicians to contaminate ordinary Britons shows that this British common sense is unwilling to pull somebody else's chestnuts out of the fire by new military adventures ''.

* 1642 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of the British Army.

He escaped custody and fled to the United States, where he successfully defeated legal attempts by the British authorities to have him extradited to face charges arising from the attack and the burning of the Valley House.

" Theorist Basil Liddell Hart considered that the most important aspect of the operation was the degree to which the Ottoman commanders were first denied intelligence on the British preparations for the attack through British air superiority, and then crippled by air attacks on their headquarters and telephone exchanges, paralysing their attempts to react to the rapidly deteriorating situation.

Ideas for a cross-Channel fixed link appeared as early as 1802, but British political and press pressure over compromised national security stalled attempts to construct a tunnel.

Thereafter the Imperial German Navy ceased any serious attempts to engage the British fleet and remained at home as a ' fleet in being '.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

In addition to continuing resistance to New York's attempts to assert control over the territory, Allen was active in efforts by Vermont's leadership for recognition by Congress, and he participated in controversial negotiations with the British over the possibility of Vermont becoming a separate British province.

The day ended once again with the Afrika Korps and Ariete coming off second best to the superior numbers of the British 22nd Armoured and 4th Armoured Brigades, frustrating Rommel's attempts to resume his advance.

Despite some military attempts by the Spanish to retake it in the 18th century, most notably in the Great Siege of 1779 – 1783, the Rock has remained under British control ever since.

In the late 19th Century there were British claims on the island, as well as attempts at setting up mining.

The Nawab of Bengal Siraj Ud Daulah, the de facto ruler of the Bengal province, opposed British attempts to use these permits.

The new dialect approach appears in The Cambridge Guide to English Usage ( Peters, 2004 ) which attempts to avoid any language bias and accordingly uses an idiosyncratic international spelling system of mixed American and British forms ( but tending to prefer the American English spellings ).

Escaped slaves known as Jamaican Maroons established independent communities in the mountainous interior that the British were unable to suppress, despite major attempts in the 1730s and 1790s.

Ribbentrop and Hitler misunderstood the British attempts to provide for a peaceful settlement of the Danzig crisis as a sign that Britain would not go to war for Poland.

* 1916 – World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut ( present-day Iraq ) in the Battle of Dujaila.

In his attempts to unclench British control of Afghan foreign policy, Amanullah sent an emissary to Moscow in 1919 ; Vladimir Lenin received the envoy warmly and responded by sending a Soviet representative to Kabul to offer aid to Amānullāh's government.

After several unsuccessful attempts, Nadir and his brothers finally raised a sufficiently large force — mostly from the British side of the Durand Line — to take Kabul on October 10, 1929.

By the end of the 19th century, a new educated social class which transcended the divisions of race and caste was emerging as a result of British attempts to nurture a range of professionals for the Ceylon Civil Service and for the legal, educational, and medical professions.

During this period, the British made several unsuccessful attempts to affiliate St. Vincent with other Windward Islands in order to govern the region through a unified administration.

Some early attempts were often no more than a field gun or anti-tank gun mounted on a truck-a technique known in the British Army as carrying portee.

His fictional spy network was so efficient and verbose that his German handlers were overwhelmed and made no further attempts to recruit any additional spies in the UK, according to the Official History of British Intelligence in WW2.

After four days, the small British force at the bridge was overwhelmed and the rest of the division became trapped in a small pocket north of the river – where they could not be sufficiently reinforced by the Poles or XXX Corps when they arrived on the southern bank, nor by the RAF's resupply flights.

In the afternoon, the RAF flew its first major resupply mission, using 164 aircraft to fly in of supplies to the British.

Hyder did not prevent the resupply, but shadowed the British back toward Tripassore, offering battle near Sholinghur.

The battle cost the RAF 800 planes and considerable numbers of transport ships, but the cost to the Axis was far higher, with 60 % of Axis supplies sent to Africa sunk thanks to British aircraft, submarines, and destroyers based in Malta, cutting the Axis forces in Africa off from resupply efforts.

Information from Fellers ' messages alerted the Axis to British convoy operations in the Mediterranean Sea, including efforts to resupply the garrison of Malta.

Cruiser warfare around the globe was deemed impractical because Germany had few bases to resupply ships, while the chief need was for as many battleships as possible to take on the British fleet.

The siege began on April 19 after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, when the militia from many Massachusetts communities surrounded Boston and blocked land access to the then-peninsular town, limiting British resupply to naval operations.

Following the death of the Marquis de Montcalm and the fall of Québec on 18 September-after the colonel's aborted attempt to resupply the besieged city-Bougainville was dispatched to the western front by his new commanding officer, the Chevalier de Lévis and attempted to stop the British advance from his entrenchments at Île-aux-Noix.

He continued that, despite this, the British government ( who publicly backed the U. S. attack ) refused requests " to resupply chloroquine in emergency relief until such time as the Sudanese can rebuild their pharmaceutical production ".

In fact, the British were well aware that C-130 flights continued to use the airfield and attempted to interdict these flights leading to the loss of a C-130 on 1 June, which was not, however, engaged in any resupply mission.

His concern was German naval strength and resupply of any landed troops :" To a defending force, cut off and left to its own devices, the topography of the country does not afford us much protection ... without supplies and reinforcements they would soon feel the increasing pressure of British expeditionary force brought over under the protection of British naval power ; sooner or later our own troops would face a situation similar to Namsos or Dunkirk.

* July 23 – During Operation Substance, Italian high-level and torpedo bombers attack a resupply convoy of six fast store ships bound for Malta escorted by a British naval forces including the aircraft carrier.

* June 14 – 16 – German and Italian aircraft join Italian surface warships and submarines in opposing Operation Harpoon, an Allied Malta resupply convoy from Gibraltar escorted by the British aircraft carriers and, and Operation Vigorous, a simultaneous resupply convoy from Alexandria, Egypt ; Royal Air Force and U. S. Army Air Forces aircraft from Malta and North Africa provide support to the convoys.

* August 11 – Axis opposition to Operation Pedestal – an Allied resupply convoy to Malta escorted by the British aircraft carriers,, and, against which 1, 000 Axis aircraft have gathered in Sicily and Sardinia – begins when the German submarine U-73 hits Eagle with four torpedoes in the Mediterranean Sea about 80 nautical miles ( 141 km ) north of Algiers.

On June 15, seven planes assisted the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) in attacking an Italian fleet which had put to sea to intercept a British resupply convoy ( Operation Vigorous ) on its way to Malta.

The British and Commonwealth forces were slightly better equipped than the Italians, and had access to resupply and reinforcements.

At the same time, the British were able to reinforce and resupply their troops on the Niagara.

It was here that he earned his nickname “ the Dunkirk Pirate ”, ignoring his written orders to proceed directly to the American coastline for logistical support and resupply and instead heading directly to Dunkirk to begin his cruise against the British.

Finally, after strong resistance, they broke through British troops sent to the assistance of Greece, taking Larissa on 19 April, and secured a significant British Supply Dump, which the 2nd Panzer Division used to push the attack without waiting for resupply.

Even after the capture of forts Mifflin and Mercer, which had previously prevented the resupply of British-occupied Philadelphia by sea, the British relied heavily upon the overland route between New York City and Philadelphia for the movement of men, supplies and communication.

The Pennsylvania State Navy was responsible for defense of the river when Philadelphia was occupied by British General Sir William Howe, and the Royal Navy wanted to resupply Howe's army.