After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence -- the British government, that is.

* 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.

The battle had begun when a force of between 2, 000 and 3, 000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.

* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

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.

Slavery was introduced to the British colonies in the early 17th century, and enslaved people largely replaced indentured servants as an economic labor force during the 17th century.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.

The British strategic bombing force largely came to an end when the V bomber force was phased out ; the last of which left service in 1983.

Under Grimond ( who retired in 1967 ) and his successor, Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberals regained the status of a serious third force in British politics, polling up to 20 % of the vote but unable to break the duopoly of Labour and Conservative and win more than fourteen seats in the Commons.

The party is keen to maintain its independent identity however, and argues that the need for a modern Liberal force in British politics has never been greater.

As Bonaparte's fleet crossed the Mediterranean, it was pursued by a British force under Nelson, sent from the British fleet in the Tagus, to establish the purpose of the French expedition and defeat it.

Bonaparte, aware of Nelson's pursuit, enforced absolute secrecy about his destination and was able to capture Malta and then land in Egypt without interception by the British force.

When the news became certain, the French press insisted that the defeat was the result both of an overwhelmingly large British force and unspecified " traitors.

The destruction of the French Mediterranean fleet allowed the Royal Navy to return to the sea in force, as British squadrons set up blockades off French and allied ports.

The Avro Blue Steel was a British air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear stand-off missile, built to arm the V bomber force.

The Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879 saw a small British force repel an overwhelming attack by Zulu forces ; eleven Victoria Cross es were awarded for the defence.

Allenby's force, now including Indian Army units which replaced a number of British units sent to the Western Front, captured the southern Jordan Valley in 1918 and carried out two major, but unsuccessful attacks to Amman and Es Salt and occupied part of the Jordan Valley, during preparations for his final successful assault in September at the Battle of Megiddo.

A large force of British troops also remained in Germany, facing the threat of Soviet invasion.

The British Army of the Rhine was the Germany garrison formation, with the main fighting force being I ( BR ) Corps.

The British Army is purely a professional force since National service came to an end.

Each series was set in a different period of British history, beginning in 1485 and ending in 1917, and comprised six half-hour episodes.

The North Borneo Federation, also known as Kalimantan Utara or North Kalimantan was a proposed political entity which would have comprised the British Colonies of Sarawak, British North Borneo ( Sabah ) and the protectorate of Brunei.

Accounts of the Ethiopian artillery deployed at Adwa differ ; Russian advisor Leonid Artamonov wrote that it comprised 42 Russian mountain guns supported by a team of fifteen advisers, but British historians suggest that the Ethiopian guns were Hotchiss and Maxim pieces captured from the Egyptians or purchased from French and other European suppliers.

In September 1914 cavalry comprised 9. 28 % of the total manpower of the British Expeditionary Force in France — by July 1918 this proportion had fallen to 1. 65 %.

Confusingly, END was both a Europe-wide campaign that comprised a series of large public conferences ( the END Conventions ), and a small British pressure group.

At its height, the British Empire covered a quarter of the Earth's land area and comprised a quarter of its population.

Ribbentrop believed the British aristocracy comprised some sort of secret society that ruled from behind the scenes, and if he could befriend enough members of Britain's " secret government ", he could bring about the alliance.

Neville Chamberlain's European Policy in 1939 was based upon creating a " peace front " of alliances linking Western and Eastern European states to serve as a " tripwire " meant to deter any act of German aggression The new “ containment ” strategy adopted in March 1939 comprised giving firm warnings to Berlin, increasing the pace of British rearmament and attempting to form an interlocking network of alliances that would block German aggression anywhere in Europe by creating such a formidable deterrence to aggression that Hitler could not rationally chose that option.

British commercial interests in South America, which comprised a valuable component of the Informal Empire that accompanied Britain's imperial possessions, and the economic importance of the United States as a trading partner, ensured that intervention by Britain's rival European powers could not engage with the Americas.

Reverse Lend-Lease comprised services such as rent on air bases that went to the U. S., and totaled $ 7. 8 billion ; of this, $ 6. 8 billion came from the British and the Commonwealth.

The land originally comprised most of the independent Boer South African Republic, which had existed since 1856, despite two previous failed attempts by the British to establish supremacy.

The spacecraft was derived from the GEOS research satellite built by British Aerospace, and modified with the addition of a dust shield as proposed by Fred Whipple which comprised a thin ( 1 mm ) aluminium sheet separated by a space and a thicker Kevlar sheet.

The gang comprised, in addition to the UVF, rogue elements of the UDR, RUC, SPG, and the regular Army, all acting allegedly under the direction of British Military Intelligence and / or RUC Special Branch.

The Scots-Irish comprised the most numerous group of immigrants from the British Isles before the American Revolutionary War.

Allen, however, continued to develop the Gong mythology from the late seventies up until the nineties in his solo work, and with bands such as Euterpe, Planet Gong ( which comprised Allen and Smyth playing with the British festival band Here & Now ), and New York Gong ( comprising Allen and the musicians who would later become known as Material ), while Smyth formed a separate band Mother Gong, with Jean-Paul Vivini from the band Can AM Des Puig ( author of The Book of AM produced by Daevid Allen ), playing in Spain and England.

The Loyalists, on whom the British had relied too heavily, comprised about 20 % of the population but never were well organized.

The Scots-Irish comprised the largest group of immigrants from the British Isles before the Revolutionary War, and most migrated into the backcountry of the South.

The Commonwealth forces comprised the 6th Australian Division, the New Zealand 2nd Division, and the British 1st Armoured Brigade.

The corps at this time comprised the 41st and 32nd Divisions, engaged in the defense of British New Guinea, the beginning of the New Guinea campaign.

Eavis was educated at the fee-paying Wells Cathedral School, followed by the Thames Nautical Training College after which he joined the Union-Castle Line, which comprised part of the British Merchant Navy, as a trainee Midshipman.

These initially comprised British Aerospace ( BAe ) 748s ( from 1986 ) and subsequently BAe ATPs ( from 1989 ).

This comprised some archive materials and an interview with several well-known stars from the early days of British television.