Sources for events after this date are extremely scarce, but a tradition, reported as early as the mid-6th century by a British priest named Gildas, records that the British sent for help against the barbarians to Aetius, a Roman consul, probably in the late 440s.

* Joseph Smith ( 1682 – 1770 ), British art collector and consul at Venice

By 1840, to protect the interests of the various nationals doing business in Zanzibar, consul offices had been opened by the British, French, Germans and Americans.

Footman, the British vice consul at Skopje, addressed a lengthy report for the Foreign Office.

In 1883, a consul of the British Government was accredited to the " Kings and Chiefs of Central Africa " and in 1891, the British established the British Central Africa Protectorate.

" British colonial administrators advocated the spread of the system to the rest of the Commonwealth, the most " persistent " of which was Thomas Taylor Meadows, Britain's consul in Guangzhou, China.

He was a British consul by profession, famous for his reports and activities against human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru and also for his dealings with Germany before Ireland's Easter Rising in 1916.

A British consul was already residing at Apia.

The site was first excavated in 1853 and 1854 by John George Taylor, British vice consul at Basra from 1851-1859.

A chance remark by a passing airman brings up the topic of Hugh Conway, a British consul in Afghanistan, who disappeared under odd circumstances.

In the airplane of the Maharajah of Chandrapore are Conway, the British consul, age 37 ; Mallinson, his young vice-consul ; an American, Barnard ; and a British missionary, Miss Brinklow.

Rather than the next Foreign Secretary, he is an anonymous, mid-level British consul.

In the 19th century a British consul obtained several of the statues from Bodrum Castle ; these now reside in the British Museum.

Indeed, in 1956, antagonism between the Kurdish aghas and the KDP-ICP reached such a height that emissaries for the former contacted the British consul in Mosul requesting arms and finance to establish an " anti-Communist and independent Kurdistan " in northern Iraq.

For example, one potential candidate is the ' consul ' bonds which were issued by the British government in the 18th century.

Much of it is actually the remains of a building remodeled in English Georgian Revival style in 1924 for Harris Hammon, who purchased the estate at Point Breeze as built in 1850 by Henry Becket, a British consul in Philadelphia.

James Hannay as well as being a novelist and journalist spent the last five years of his life as the British consul in Barcelona.

At first his embassy seemed promising, as the Emperor established him at Qorata, a village on the south-eastern shores of Lake Tana, and sent him numerous gifts, as well as having the British consul Charles Duncan Cameron, the missionary Henry Stern, and the other hostages sent to his encampment.

Also, as a British consul in Algiers in 1961 ( before the French withdrawal ), he had been a potential target for assassination by diehard French colonialists.

" British colonial administrators in China advocated the spread of the system to the rest of the Commonwealth, the most prominent of which was Thomas Taylor Meadows, Britain's consul in Guangzhou, China.

* Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.

On January 24, 1776, Henry Knox arrived with artillery captured from Fort Ticonderoga, which enabled Washington to drive the British army out of Boston.

* 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Chosen by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to be commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, Washington managed to force the British out of Boston in 1776, but was defeated and almost captured later that year when he lost New York City.

The great successes, at Boston ( 1776 ), Saratoga ( 1777 ) and Yorktown ( 1781 ), came from trapping the British far from base with much larger numbers of troops.

The British evacuated Boston in March 1776 and Washington moved his army to New York City.

The parade in Boston is closely associated with Evacuation Day, when the British left Boston in 1776 during the American War of Independence.

A large number of indoor rowing competitions are held all over the world, including the indoor rowing world championships ( also known as CRASH-B Sprints ) held in Boston, Massachusetts, United States in February and the British Indoor Rowing Championships held in Birmingham, England in November ; both are rowed on Concept2s.

* 1776 – American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.

The right of the colonists to arms and rebellion against oppression was asserted, for example, in a pre-revolutionary newspaper editorial in 1769 Boston objecting to the British army suppression of colonial opposition to the Townshend Acts:

* March 31 – Intolerable Acts: The British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston, Massachusetts as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.

* March 5 – Boston Massacre: Eleven Americans are shot, five fatally, by British troops in an event that helps start the American Revolutionary War 5 years later.

On June 17, two months into the colonial siege of Boston, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, just north of Boston, British forces are victorious, but only after suffering severe casualties and after Colonial forces run out of ammunition, Fort Ticonderoga is taken by American forces in New York Colony's northern frontier, and American forces unsuccessfully invade Canada, with an attack on Montreal defeated by British forces on November 13 and an attack on Quebec repulsed December 31.

" in which she took a particularly critical approach to the Murrayite theory, explaining its faults, and looking at the history of the hypotheses ' criticism ; within it she remarked that " No British folklorist can remember Dr Margaret Murray without embarrassment.

Heath later remarked that, although he did not personally kill anybody, as the British forces advanced he saw the devastation caused by his unit's artillery bombardments.

When Benjamin Disraeli, future British Prime Minister, visited the city in 1830, he described it as " a city of palaces built by gentlemen for gentlemen ," and remarked that " Valletta equals in its noble architecture, if it does not excel, any capital in Europe ," and in other letters called it " comparable to Venice and Cádiz " and " full of palaces worthy of Palladio.

The British historian Geoffrey Elton once remarked " Calais – expensive and useless – was better lost than kept ".

" It is said that the British General, who paused here on his way to Yorktown, remarked that this spot with its magnificent vista of the James River Valley would make an ideal site for a house.

The British Colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, though sympathetic to the ultimate goals of the Raid, was uncomfortable with the timing of the invasion and remarked that " if this succeeds it will ruin me.

A northern chief, Nopera Panakareao, also early on summarised his understanding of the Treaty as " the shadow of the land is to the Queen, but the substance remains to us ", even as a British official later remarked that the

When Jawaharlal Nehru visited the area in the 1920s, he remarked that the education was superior to British India.

Upon hearing that his cousin had changed the name of the British royal house to Windsor, German Emperor Wilhelm II remarked jokingly that he planned to see Shakespeare's play " The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ", a play on the actual title of Shakespeare's work The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Commenting on the popularity of Time Team, and its role in exposing the British public to archaeology, in a 2010 interview Aston remarked that " My motive was to get as many people as possible interested in archaeology, because we the profession all enjoy it and think it interesting.

In British service, it also had the unofficial nickname of Honey after a tank driver remarked " She's a honey ".

On 15 May, five days after the invasion began, Reynaud contacted his British counterpart and famously remarked, " We have been defeated ... we are beaten ; we have lost the battle ....

The next diplomat to speak, British Foreign Minister Jack Straw, remarked: " Mr. President, I speak on behalf of a very old country, founded in 1066 by the French.

He also remarked that millions of British citizens enjoy alcohol as " a regular and enjoyable social drink ".

The British high commissioner at the time, Lord Selborne, remarked ;

The indigenous British, he remarked, should treat immigrant ethnicities " as equals – and as no more than equals ".

The Gorkha Commissioners had remarked to the British the futility of debating about a few square miles of territory since there never could be real peace between the two States, until the British should yield to the Gorkhali British provinces north of the Ganges, making that river the boundary between the two, " as heaven had evidently designed it to be.

Mr Malik remarked, " The abusive attitude I endured last November I forgot about and I forgave, but I really do believe that British ministers and parliamentarians should be afforded the same respect and dignity at USA airports that we would bestow upon our colleagues in the Senate and Congress.

British reports also remarked that unanticipated clemency was immediately shown the garrison.

British historian William Wilson Hunter in the first volume on the British province of Orissa and the temple of Jagannath has remarked that the aboriginal people worshiped a Blue Stone inside dense forests as Nila Madhava.

Vithalbhai Patel, former Speaker of the Assembly, watched the beatings and remarked, " All hope of reconciling India with the British Empire is lost forever.