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British and establishment
To this end, in the early 1880s, he purchased numerous newspapers in England, all of which were to advocate the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of " the British Republic ".
Through hardships and eventual establishment of trade with Britain, the West Indies and other regions, the colonists were able to establish themselves in the American colonies with a cuisine similar to their previous British cuisine.
At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.
An expansion of British central authority and the evolution of tribal government resulted in the 1920 establishment of two advisory councils representing Africans and Europeans.
They have a series of contretemps with British bureaucracy and the artistic establishment, in which the trio generally represents the voice of reason.
In 1882 the Museum was involved in the establishment of the independent Egypt Exploration Fund ( now Society ) the first British body to carry out research in Egypt.
In the following twenty years, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and other smaller republican groups such as the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) mounted an armed campaign against the British, by which they meant the RUC, the British Army, the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) of the British Army ( and, according to their critics, the Protestant and unionist establishment ).
Attlee's first Health Secretary, Aneurin Bevan, fought against the general disapproval of the medical establishment by creating the British National Health Service, a publicly funded healthcare system offering treatment free at the point of use.
The college was allowed to falter however after Ramsay left Halifax shortly after its establishment to serve as the Governor General of British North America.
Also faced with opposition within the British establishment to the treatment of captives taken in North America, King George decreed that the men should be sent back to America and treated as prisoners of war.
The commission proposed the establishment of some form of association with Ethiopia, and the UN General Assembly adopted that proposal along with a provision terminating British administration of Eritrea no later than September 15, 1952.
It stated that the British Government " view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ".
On May 14, 1948, on the day in which the British Mandate over Palestine expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved a proclamation declaring the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.
The establishment of an ' Irish Episcopal Empire ' involved three transnational entities-the British Empire, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Irish diaspora.
Ottoman rule ended with World War I, and Iraq came to be administered by the British Empire until the establishment of the Kingdom of Iraq in 1932.
Imperial Conferences ( Colonial Conferences before 1911 ) were periodic gatherings of government leaders from the self-governing colonies and dominions of the British Empire between 1887 and 1937, before the establishment of regular Meetings of Commonwealth Prime Ministers in 1944.
Originally the rank structure of all three services was similar to that of the British Armed Forces, but some modifications were introduced in light of the small size of the Libyan military establishment.
The ongoing commercial success of the original Land Rover series models, and latterly the Range Rover in the 1970s in the midst of BL ’ s well documented business troubles prompted the establishment of a separate Land Rover company but still under the BL umbrella, remaining part of the subsequent Rover Group in 1988 under the ownership of British Aerospace after the remains of British Leyland were broken up and privatised.
This can clearly be seen in India after the full establishment of British Raj in the 19th century.
This may have been a reference to a report from the British Ambassador in Paris, who had believed that when La Pérouse ’ s expedition set out from Brest in August 1785 it had as one of its objectives the establishment of a settlement in New Zealand to forestall the British.
* 1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the " establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people " with the clear understanding " that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities ".

British and Singapore
* 1867 – Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
After the fall of Singapore, several thousand British and Australian prisoners of war were sent to camps in Borneo.
Particularly common law is in England where it originated in the Middle Ages, and in countries that trace their legal heritage to England as former colonies of the British Empire, including India, the United States, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Canada, Malaysia, Ghana, Australia, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Cyprus, Barbados,
* 1959 – The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
A personal high point was the reception of the Japanese surrender in Singapore when British troops returned to the island to receive the formal surrender of Japanese forces in the region led by General Itagaki Seishiro on 12 September 1945, codenamed Operation Tiderace.
In 1959, when former British crown colony Singapore gained self-government, it adopted the Malay style Yang di-Pertuan Negara ( literally means " head of state " in Malay ) for its governor ( the actual head of state remained the British monarch ).
However, it was the British, who after initially establishing bases at Jesselton, Kuching, Penang and Singapore, ultimately secured their hegemony across the territory that is now Malaysia.
On 31 August 1963, the British territories in North Borneo and Singapore were granted independence and formed Malaysia with the Peninsular states on 16 September 1963.
British Governor Raffles, who the later founded the city of Singapore, ruled the colony the following 10 years of the British interregnum ( 1806 – 1816 ).
The different foreign-policy conceptions held by Hitler and Ribbentrop were illustrated in their reaction to the Fall of Singapore in 1942: Ribbentrop wanted this great British defeat to be a day of celebration in Germany, whereas Hitler forbade any celebrations on the grounds that Singapore represented a sad day for the principles of white supremacy.
Ribbentrop tried to convince Matsuoka to urge the government in Tokyo to attack the great British naval base at Singapore, claiming the Royal Navy was too weak to retaliate due to its involvement in the Battle of the Atlantic.
The presence of British and other Commonwealth troops were crucial to Malaysia's security during the Malayan Emergency ( 1948 – 1960 ) and the Indonesian Confrontation ( 1962 – 1966 ), which was sparked by Malaya's merger with the British colonies of Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo to form Malaysia in 1963.
The British defence guarantee ended following Britain's decision in 1967 to withdraw its forces east of Suez, and was replaced in 1971 with the Five Power Defence Arrangements ( FPDA ) by which Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore agreed to co-operate in the area of defence, and to " consult " in the event of external aggression or the threat of attack on Malaysia or Singapore.
A potato chip ( known as a crisp in British English and Hiberno-English ; as a chip in American, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, Singapore, South African, Jamaican English and as either a chip or wafer in Indian English ) is a thin slice of potato that is deep fried or baked until crunchy.
Menzies sent the bulk of the army to help the British in the Middle East and Singapore, and told Winston Churchill the Royal Navy should strengthen its Far Eastern forces.
Singaporean politics have been dominated by the People's Action Party ( PAP ) since the 1959 general election when Lee Kuan Yew became Singapore's first prime minister ( Singapore was then a self-governing state within the British Empire ).
* 31 October 1971-The last British military forces withdraws from Singapore.
* 1963 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo ( Sabah ) and Sarawak.
Shortly thereafter Japan was granted free passage, and on December 21, 1941, Thailand and Japan signed a military alliance with a secret protocol wherein Tokyo agreed to help Thailand regain territories lost to the British and French ( i. e. the Shan States of Burma, Malaya, Singapore, & part of Yunnan, plus Laos & Cambodia ) Subsequently, Thailand undertook to ' assist ' Japan in its war against the Allies.

British and on
It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.
Now the riflemen and the Marylanders followed up their beginning and closed in on the British, giving them another telling round of fire.
The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.
Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.
Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.
He concluded that selective service would not only prevent the disorganization of essential war industries but would avoid the undesirable moral effects of the British reliance on enlistment only -- `` where the feeling of the people was whipped into a frenzy by girls pinning white feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching hate of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy outrages to make men enlist out of motives of revenge and retaliation ''.
The Queen Mary has long been a symbol of speed, luxury, and impeccable British service on the high seas.
Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.
The Conseil even treated the serious matter of British aggression as its business and, on its own authority, sent to disaffected savages merchandise `` suitable for the peltry trade ''.
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.
But just before luncheon today the fact was announced grimly by the British navy's chief adviser to the cabinet on underwater warfare, Capt. George Symonds.
`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.
The Indians and Pakistanis are chafing under similar restrictions on the British market for similar reasons.
Steel Company of Wales, a British steelmaker, wants to bring in Virginia coal, cut down on its takings of Welsh coal in order to be able to compete more effectively -- especially in foreign markets.
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.
The U. S. Navy illegally intercepted a British merchant ship the Trent on the high seas and seized two Confederate envoys ; Britain protested vehemently while the U. S. cheered.
As a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire resident on a British colonial possession, he was effectively confined to New Guinea for several years.
* Aberdeen Station ( TransLink ), SkyTrain station on the Canada Line in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Almost all of Agatha Christie's books are whodunits, focusing on the British middle and upper classes.
Austin Trevor debuted the role of Poirot on screen in the 1931 British film Alibi.
American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.
* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

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