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The British forces settled in the northeastern buildings designed by the March brothers in the 1920s, which the Third Reich had used for official sport organisations such as the Reich Academy of Physical Training and extended by 1936, adding the " Haus des deutschen Sports " ( House of German Sports ) and other buildings.
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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.
British and settled
At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.
Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.
British, German, Jewish, and other immigrants also settled in Argentina, all bringing their styles of cooking and favorite foods with them.
The British evacuation of Afghanistan was settled on the terms proposed, and in 1881, the British troops also handed over Kandahar to the new Amir.
The Australia of 1904 saw exactly the same kit as in 1899, and it seemed that the British touring sides had settled on kits particular to the host destination.
These territories were considered to have been settled by British colonists, and therefore the reception of English law was automatic.
British Columbia was considered to be a settled colony and therefore received English law automatically, under the principle set out by Blackstone.
British citizens were by far the most numerous population to migrate to the colonies: 2. 5 million settled in Canada ; 1. 5 million in Australia ; 750, 000 in New Zealand ; 450, 000 in the Union of South Africa ; and 200, 000 in India.
Venezuela claimed more than half of the territory of the British colony of Guyana at the time of the Latin American wars of independence, a dispute that was settled by arbitration in 1899.
By the 19th century, the standardisation of British English was more settled than it had been in the previous century, and this relatively well-established English was brought to Africa, Asia and New Zealand.
The guidelines for the M ' Naghten Rules ( 1843 ) 10 C & F 200, state, inter alia, and evaluating the criminal responsibility for defendants claiming to be insane were settled in the British courts in the case of Daniel M ' Naghten in 1843.
During the early part of the 20th century, the interior central highlands were settled by British and other European farmers, who became wealthy farming coffee and tea.
The I-Kiribati or Gilbertese people settled what would become known as the Gilbert Islands ( named for British captain Thomas Gilbert by von Krusenstern in 1820 ) some time in between 3000 BC and 1300 AD.
During World War II, about 30, 000 Polish refugees migrated to Karachi, at that time under British colonial rule. Many of these Polish families settled permanently in the city.
The standoff was settled only when Australian Prime Minister Joseph Lyons met with members of the Australian Board and outlined to them the severe economic hardships that could be caused in Australia if the British public boycotted Australian trade.
A disagreement regarding the legal status and the portion of the annuities to be paid by the " A " mandates was settled when an Arbitrator ruled that some of the mandates contained more than one State: The difficulty arises here how one is to regard the Asiatic countries under the British and French mandates.
However, the British weathered some of his vociferous talk and Dr. Banda gradually settled for a long slog by opening a medical surgery in Limbe where, to thank John Kadzamira ( one of the main organizers of the Harare NAC Branch ), Dr. Banda dutifully took in Cecilia Kadzamira ( a newly trained nurse from Salisbury Hospital ) as his first nursing staff member!
After the British were defeated in the Thirteen Colonies, its troops helped evacuate approximately 30, 000 United Empire Loyalists ( American Tories ), who settled in Nova Scotia, with land grants by the Crown as some compensation for their losses.
The French explored and settled Polynesia, and the British made three voyages with James Cook to the South Pacific and Australia, Hawaii, and the North American Pacific Northwest.
The state's origins are unique in Australia as a freely settled, planned British province, rather than as a convict settlement.
The area, said to have previously been a slave market, was first settled in 1787 by 400 formerly enslaved Black Britons sent from London, England, under the auspices of the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, an organisation set up by the British abolitionist, Granville Sharp.
Zanzibar was settled as a trading hub, subsequently controlled by the Portuguese, the Sultanate of Oman, and then as a British protectorate by the end of the nineteenth century.
Historically, British people were thought to be descended mainly from the different ethnic stocks that settled there before the 11th century ; pre-Celtic, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman.
Genetic studies in the British Isles of the Y-DNA Haplogroup R1a1, seen also across Scandinavia, have demonstrated that the Vikings settled in Britain and Ireland as well as raiding there.
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