The British general moved his forces north from Philadelphia to Chestnut Hill, near the right wing of the patriot encampment.

Besides helping to prevent the movement of the British to the west, Valley Forge also obstructed the trade between Howe's forces and the farmers, thus threatening the vital subsistence of the redcoats and rendering their foraging to obtain necessary supplies extremely hazardous.

He had been a corps commander during the disastrous defeat and retreat of 1942 when the ill-prepared, ill-equipped British forces `` were outmaneuvered, outfought and outgeneraled ''.

* 1812 – British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.

* 1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.

* 1942 – Indian leader Mohanda Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.

* 1971 – The Troubles: The British security forces in Northern Ireland launch Operation Demetrius.

* 1940 – World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.

* 1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland.

* 1916 – World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondicherry.

* 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.

* 1812 – Peninsula War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.

* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1763 – Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run – British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.

* Paul Revere's Ride alerted Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, " Paul Revere's Ride.

British and American forces also deployed vehicles designed for a close support role, but these were conventional tanks whose only significant modification was the replacement of the main gun with a howitzer.

* 1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II.

After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.

Rommel's forces had to withdraw urgently lest their retreat through the British minefields be cut off.

In 1897, the British sacked the city.

During the American Revolutionary War, Port Republic provided refuge to the residents of the nearby community of Chestnut Neck when the British Army sacked their town on October 6, 1778.

Under the direction of Gate Gourmet's HR Director Andy Cooke, according to BBC: " Gate Gourmet sacked more than 600 staff last week in a working practices row, prompting a walkout by British Airways ground staff that paralysed flights and stranded thousands of travellers in the UK.

Tensions increased in 1874 during the Second Ashanti War ( 1873 – 1874 ) when the British sacked the Ashanti capital of Kumasi.

During the War of 1812 the village was sacked by British and Canadian troops.

In 1897, the British launched a Punitive Expedition, sacked Benin city and exiled Oba Ovonramwen, taking control of the area in order to establish the British colony of Nigeria.

As part of his modernisation of the British armed forces, he sacked three prominent members of the Imperial General Staff, replacing them with fresher minds.

* 1837-The British troops sacked and burned the village of Saint-Benoît.

In both cases the British navy won, and in 1814 they sacked the town of Bangor.

The British army crossed the river and sacked every Rajput village in the area.

The elderly British employees of the Permanent Assurance Company, a staid London firm which has recently been taken over by the Very Big Corporation of America, rebel against their corporate masters when one of them is sacked.

A British Airways pilot was sacked for shouting at an intoxicated female passenger who claimed there was a bomb on board a flight from London to Barbados.

In 1780 during the American Revolutionary War, Kekionga was sacked by a force of French Americans led by Colonel Augustin de la Balme, who planned to take Detroit from the British.

The incident caused uproar in the British media with calls for Aragonés to be sacked.

He is the author of The Desert Generals, a book that attacked the perceived cult of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and assessed the roles of his sacked predecessors as commanders in the North Africa campaign, including Richard O ' Connor, who drove the Italians from Cyrenaica in late 1940, and Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck ( whom he called " The Victor of Alamein "), who forced Rommel to a halt at the First Battle of El Alamein, only to be dismissed by Winston Churchill for his pains.

As British trade in Bombay increased, Surat ( which had been sacked by Shivaji in 1670 ) began its relative decline.

Peter Eckersley was the first Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Company, Limited from 1922 to 1927 and Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Corporation until 1929 when he was sacked by John Reith after divorcing his wife ( Reith was a deeply religious man and would not tolerate the ' scandal ' of having a divorced man working for him ).

Following a scandal at court resulting from a conspiracy between anglophile José de Carvajal and the British ambadassor to Spain, he was arrested by the king's order on July 20, 1754, and was sacked as prime minister upon Carvajal's death ( see Enlightenment Spain ).

In sympathy with the sacked workers, British Airways staff at the airport walked out, and mass pickets of Gate Gourmet were organised by the Transport and General Workers ' Union.

A newspaper headline reading " Mackay sacked " was used as a visual prop in the British television situation comedy Porridge, which featured a prison officer named Mackay.