This distinctive taste is reflected in the British company's marketing slogan: " Love it or hate it.

In 1900, the company's territory came under the control of the British Government, which moved to consolidate its hold over the area of modern Nigeria.

The only British marques currently using a V12 configuration are Aston Martin — whose Cosworth-developed engine was authorized during the company's ownership by Ford Motor Company — and Rolls-Royce.

In 1923 the British government decided not to renew the company's charter ; as a result, Southern Rhodesia was annexed formally and granted self-government in 1923.

In late 2011, the company fired its newly appointed British president, precipitating a scandal that wiped 75 % off the company's stock market valuation.

The company's first major success came when the Weinstein's teamed up with British producer Martin Lewis and acquired the U. S. rights to two concert films Lewis had produced of benefit shows for human rights organization Amnesty International.

Tyrrell had almost adopted Stoddart and European Aviation as a technical partner, and were planning a team wind tunnel at the company's headquarters, when in early 1998, British American Tobacco bought out the Tyrrell family and established its own team, British American Racing.

But Brown's defeat by Turton, one of the company's chief local business rivals, marked the decline of old British enterprises in relation to the rising Creole entrepreneurs with their United States commercial connections.

Between 1965 and 1982 Seneffe was the location of a car plant belonging to British Leyland, which in its later years assembled models including the Mini and the Austin Allegro from crated kits shipped from the company's Cowley facility.

In this case, the parent company was the Associated British Picture Corporation ( ABPC ), which initially did not wish to become involved with the new broadcasting system, but were persuaded to do so by the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) and the manager of their Pathé News subsidiary Howard Thomas, who became the new company's managing director.

News report from the Sunday Times on 6 February 2003 revealed that PCCW made a preliminary takeover approach to Cable & Wireless on December 2002 as the British company's share languished near record lows.

" According to the British newspaper The Guardian, "... the October 1970 plot against Chile's President-elect Salvador Allende ... was the direct result of a plea for action a month earlier by Donald Kendall, chairman of PepsiCo, in two telephone calls to the company's former lawyer, President Richard Nixon.

However continuing problems led to the company's nationalisation, though not as part of British Shipbuilders, in 1977.

This was the beginning of the end for the independent Rover Company, as the Solihull-based company's heritage drowned beneath the infamous industrial relations and managerial problems that beset the British motor industry throughout the 1970s.

The majority of the company's operations are in British Columbia and Alberta ; however, it owns a sawmill and timber harvesting rights in Quebec as well as numerous locations in the southern United States.

London arose from the split in ownership between the British branch of Decca Records and that same company's USA branch ; the American London label released British Decca records in the USA, since it could not use the " Decca " name there.

The company's international expansion began in 1976 when Zumtobel was listed as stock corporation ( Aktiengesellschaft ) and acquired a minority stake in the British company Tridonic Ltd. ( the remaining shares were acquired in 1983 ).

At the same time as the antitrust action in 1911, the company's share in British American Tobacco ( BAT ) was sold.

Also in 1957 / 8, Vanden Plas were asked by Leonard Lord to add luxury fittings to a batch of Austin A105 Westminster cars, beginning the practice of using the company's skills and name for badge-engineered ( and genuinely improved ) luxury versions of many of the BMC ( and later British Leyland ( BL )) cars such as the 1100 / 1300 range and the Allegro ( known as the Vanden Plas 1500 and 1700 ).

In September 1994 American Express ( Amex ) bought the corporate travel interests of Thomas Cook Travel Inc. which represented about ten percent of the British company's total revenue.

In 1984 David Burnside was recruited by the British Airways Chairman Lord King to become the company's head of public relations.

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 ''.

* Armstrong Whitworth Atlas, a British military aeroplane manufactured ( 1927 – 1933 )

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.

In Alfred Duggan's Conscience of the King, a historical novel about Cerdic, founder of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, Ambrosius Aurelianus is a Romano-British general who rose independently to military power, forming alliances with various British kings and setting out to drive the invading Saxons from Britain.

The Assyrian Levies were founded by the British in 1928, with ancient Assyrian military rankings such as Rab-shakeh, Rab-talia and Tartan, being revived for the first time in millennia for this force.

With the House undecided on whether to mobilize for military action against the encroaching British military force, Henry argued in favor of mobilization.

Category: British military personnel of the Irish War of Independence

Category: British military personnel of the 1936 – 1939 Arab revolt in Palestine

* 2004: To commemorate the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, the British led the military parade with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

The beginnings of badminton can be traced to mid-18th century British India, where it was created by British military officers stationed there.

From May 1943 onwards there was very close cooperation between the British and American military intelligence organisations.

While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

British military historians J. F. C.

As well as Bennett, speculation has also focused on Lord Kitchener, who among other things was prominently involved in British military recruitment in World War I.

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.

Later that month, on the first anniversary of the occupation of Jaffa by the British, the Muslim-Christian Association sent a lengthy memorandum and petition to the military governor protesting once more any formation of a Jewish state.

The British army also lagged behind other nations in some aspects of their military.

The War would be the most devastating in British military history, with near 800, 000 men killed and over 2 million wounded.

The Rising initially lacked wide public support within Ireland, and was suppressed by the British military authorities within a week.

Many Boers had German ancestry and many members of the government were themselves former Boer military leaders who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War, which had ended only twelve years earlier.

Under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor, a military column, commanded by Colonel Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and including two battalions of Sara troops, moved north from N ' Djamena ( then Fort Lamy ) to engage Axis forces in Libya, where, in partnership with the British Army's Long Range Desert Group, they captured Kufra.

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

The Rideau Canal was built as a result of the War of 1812 to provide military transportation between the British colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada as an alternative to part of the St. Lawrence River, which was susceptible to blockade by the United States.