Yet it could not have been more than a matter of seconds, and then the front of the British army came into view.

They threatened constantly to give the British a hold on this region, from whence they could move easily down the rivers to the French settlements near the Gulf.

The British defending lawyers, who today increased from three to four, demanded to know if they could make the information involved seem of little value to a jury, the chances of their clients would improve.

WBAI is on the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue to demonstrate.

Accordingly, as the law stood before 1870, every person who by birth or naturalisation satisfied the conditions set forth, though he should be removed in infancy to another country where his family resided, owed an allegiance to the British crown which he could never resign or lose, except by act of parliament or by the recognition of the independence or the cession of the portion of British territory in which he resided.

Brazil's push for nationalization of the computer-related industry in the 1970s also began with the navy, which could not decipher the " black box " computerized range-finding and firing mechanisms on the British frigates they had purchased, and did not want to be dependent on imported maintenance.

Although Henry Lumley ’ s British cavalry had managed to cross the marshy ground around the Petite Gheete, it was soon evident to Marlborough that sufficient cavalry support would not be practicable and that the battle could not be won on the Allied right.

Nevertheless, there is a meaningful degree of uniformity in written English within the United Kingdom, and this could be described by the term British English.

Jenkins argued the necessity for a realignment in British politics, and discussed whether this could be brought about from within the existing Liberal Party, or from a new group driven by European principles of social democracy.

British vessels could anchor in those spaces and engage the French without reply.

Brueys may have been hoping that the delay would allow him to slip past the British during the night and thus follow Bonaparte's orders not to engage the British fleet directly if it could be avoided.

Sir Edward Grey replied through the American ambassador that the incident could be grouped together with the Germans ' sinking of the SS Arabic, their attack on a stranded British submarine on the neutral Dutch coast, and their attack on the steamship Ruel, and suggested that they be placed before a tribunal composed of US Navy officers.

This dispute undermines the debate about the abuse of a neutral flag and the British captain's order to attack the German survivors, on the grounds of protecting the freighter and her cargo, which could always be alleged.

However, by 1947, the near-bankrupt British government could no longer maintain its massive overseas commitments.

The treaty gave Britain Florida in exchange for Cuba on the recommendation of the French, who advised that declining the offer could result in Spain losing Mexico and much of the South American mainland to the British.

In 1926, the British physicist Ralph H. Fowler observed that the relationship among the density, energy and temperature of white dwarfs could be explained by viewing them as a gas of nonrelativistic, non-interacting electrons and nuclei which obeyed Fermi-Dirac statistics.

* British mathematician Alan Turing created a theoretical model for a machine, now called a universal Turing machine, that could carry out calculations from inputs,

The British military adopted the Armstrong gun, and was impressed ; the Duke of Cambridge even declared that it " could do everything but speak.

The section of Route 3 between Wimbledon and West Croydon follows the old single-track British Rail route for the most part, which was closed on 31 May 1997 so that it could be converted for Tramlink.

Previously, the Canadian federal constitution could be amended by solitary act of the Canadian or British parliaments, by formal or informal agreement between the federal and provincial governments, or even simply by adoption as ordinary custom of an oral convention or unwritten tradition that was perceived to be the best way to do something.

They both viewed the work of British landscape artists John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, which confirmed to their belief that their style of open air painting gave the truest depiction of light and atmosphere, an effect that they felt could not be achieved in the studio alone.

Labeled by both contemporaries and historians as " the grandest society of merchants in the universe ", the British East India Company would come to symbolize the dazzlingly rich potential of the corporation, as well as new methods of business that could be both brutal and exploitative.

Haydn was instructed to compose an anthem which could rival in merit the British " God save the King ".

The captain of the Admiral Graf von Spee, Hans Langsdorff, believing that his damaged ship was faced with a superior British force, chose to scuttle his ship to spare the lives of his men.

Originally BESK had a British Williams tube 40 bit memory with 40 cathode tubes, and 8 spare tubes.

She was eventually scuttled in the Rufiji delta in July 1915 after running low on coal and spare parts, and was subsequently blockaded and bombarded by the British.

At this time Patmore's father was financially embarrassed ; and in 1846 Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton obtained for Coventry the post of printed book supernumary assistant at the British Museum, a post he occupied for nineteen years, devoting his spare time to poetry.

On 18 October 1860, Elgin, not having received the Chinese surrender and wishing to spare Beijing itself, ordered the complete destruction of the Yuan Ming Yuan ( or Old Summer Palace ) outside Beijing in retaliation for the imprisonment, torture, and execution of almost twenty European and Indian prisoners ( including two British envoys and a journalist for The Times ).

In addition the British tried to barter their spare shipping to make the US put its soldiers into British ranks.

The Territorial Army ( TA ) is the spare time volunteer force of the British Army.

He packed his handlebar bag with socks, a spare shirt, a raincoat that doubled as tent and bedroll, and a pocket revolver ( described as a " bull-dog revolver ", perhaps a British Bull Dog revolver ) and left San Francisco at 8 o ' clock on 22 April 1884.

A substitute teacher in her spare time, she is the 19th British Library agent to earn the codename.

Consequently, as he was an outlaw, when, at the end of his Hundred Days, Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to Captain Maitland of he was not protected by military law or under international law as a head of state, and so the British were under no obligation either to accept his surrender or to spare his life ( although they did so, and exiled him to the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena ).

During this time he spent much of his spare time at Brooklands, then the hub of British aviation, and in June 1912 he got a job as a mechanic for the Sopwith Aviation Company.

It was a spare air group for the British Pacific Fleet based at Nowra.

After graduation, he went on to work for the British Commonwealth Union as political secretary to Sir Patrick Hannon MP, studying law in his spare time.

They took on the licence from the British Post Office to manufacture complete clocks for the telecommunications authorities of Denmark, Sweden and the Republic of Ireland, and a third ( spare ) clock for the British Post Office.

In his spare time he assisted William Elford Leach in arranging the insect collection at the British Museum ( In 1818 he was seconded to the British Museum, and on completion of his work returned to the Admiralty ).

The South African Army used the British Alvis Saracen APC before the acquisition of spare parts become problematic due to the international arms embargo of apartheid South Africa.

The commanding officer agreed to spare the house, but by the time they had returned it had already been set ablaze, however the fire had not yet taken hold and upon hearing the news that the house was to be spared the British marines through frantic efforts were able to put out the flames in time and saved the house from complete ruin.

Clearly keen to keep things positive, a 1950 road test by the British Autocar Magazine, reported that the wipers were " free from the disadvantage of early suction driven wipers that dried up at wide throttle opening ... and spare the battery ".

Mark's odd behaviour is often put down to British eccentricity, rather than the fact that he spends a lot of his spare time helping a videogame superhero protect the world from the forces of evil.

The jets were purchased from the British for 15, 000 tons of crude cotton, as Brazil had no foreign currency reserves to spare.

The Germans suffered little, as the British were under orders to spare their tanks for the coming offensive but they could make no headway either and were heavily shelled.