The German defences in Serre were supposed to have been obliterated by sustained, heavy, British shelling during the preceding week ; however, as the battalion advanced it met with fierce resistance.

The second Battle of Doiran, with general Vladimir Vazov as commander, inflicted a heavy blow on the numerically superior British army, which suffered 12, 000 casualties against 2, 000 from the opposite side.

Conquérant was defeated more rapidly, after heavy broadsides from passing British ships and the close attentions of Audacious and Goliath brought down all three masts before 19: 00.

The most-southerly British ship, Majestic, had become briefly entangled with the 80-gun Tonnant, and in the resulting battle, suffered heavy casualties.

When the German motorized forces were met with a counterattack at Arras, British tanks with heavy armour ( Matilda I & IIs ) created a brief panic in the German High Command.

It should be noted that while the term " armoured engineer vehicle " is used specifically to describe these multi-purpose tank based engineering vehicles, that term is also used more generically in British and Commonwealth militaries to describe all heavy tank based engineering vehicles used in the support of mechanized forces.

The British infantry, having formed infantry squares, took heavy losses from the French guns, while their own cannon fired at the cuirassiers and lancers, when they fell back to regroup.

Eventually, the French ceased their assault, after taking heavy losses from the British cannon and musket fire.

Although the Romans inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, two-thirds of the Caledonian army escaped and hid in the Scottish marshes and Highlands, ultimately preventing Agricola from bringing the entire British island under his control.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

British heavy dragoons made devastating charges against French infantry at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

The rebel position at the South Dublin Union ( site of the present day St. James's Hospital ) and Marrowbone Lane, further west along the canal, also inflicted heavy losses on British troops.

By the mid-twenties the British film industry was losing out to heavy competition from Hollywood, the latter helped by having a much larger home market-in 1914 25 % of films shown in the UK were British, but by 1926 this had fallen to 5 %.

The 1988 British made-for-TV movie More Bad News was another mocumentary about a rock band, in this case an incompetent heavy metal band.

* 1891 17 March – America-bound steamer Utopia slammed in heavy weather into the iron-plated British battleship HMS Anson and sank in the Bay of Gibraltar ; 576 people died.

Czechoslovakia violated the resolution supplying the Jewish state with critical military hardware to match the ( mainly British ) heavy equipment and planes already owned by the invading Arab states.

British heavy cruisers HMS Dorsetshire ( 40 ) | Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall ( 56 ) | Cornwall under Japanese air attack and heavily damaged on April 5, 1942

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.

* 1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: British Royal Navy ships inflict heavy damage against Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of Algeciras.

In the British Army, " heavy " units equipped with the Warrior IFV are described as " Armoured Infantry ", and units with the Bulldog APC as " Mechanised Infantry ".

Though the Nepalese were able to inflict heavy losses to the British army on various fronts, the larger army and the superior weapons of the British proved too strong.

Bolstered by an image overhaul — including bleached-blonde hair, frosted lips, heavy eye make-up and Carnaby Street fashions — Sinatra made her mark on the American ( and British ) music scene in early 1966 with " These Boots Are Made for Walkin '", its title inspired by a line in Robert Aldrich's 1963 western comedy 4 for Texas starring her father and Dean Martin.

* Phantom aircraft, a reported incident during World War II in which a Kampfgeschwader 200 attempted to infiltrate a British heavy bomber formation

* Cradle of Filth, a popular British extreme metal band, has produced an album called Dusk ... and Her Embrace inspired by " Carmilla ", and have also recorded an instrumental track titled " Carmilla's Masque ".

* Clone ( Threshold album ), a 1998 album by British progressive metal band Threshold

In France, Italy and Russia, where large budgets continued to allow major development, both monoplanes and all metal structures were common by the end of the 1920s however those countries overspent themselves and were overtaken in the ' 30s by those powers that hadn't been spending heavily, namely the British, the Americans and the Germans.

In the United Kingdom, at the behest of Neville Chamberlain, ( more famous for his ' peace in our time ' speech ) the entire British aviation industry was retooled, allowing it to change quickly from fabric covered metal framed biplanes to cantilever stressed skin monoplanes in time for the war with Germany.

Modern bullion coins for investment or collector purposes do not require good mechanical wear properties ; they are typically fine gold at 24k, although the American Gold Eagle and the British gold sovereign continue to be minted in 22k metal in historical tradition.

Journalist Kevin Stewart-Panko argues that the American grindcore of the 1990s borrowed from three sources: British grindcore, the American precursors, and death metal.

However, Sharp indicates that they were more inspired by the thrash metal of Dark Angel than the British groups.

Older roads use metal guard rails and newer roads use the British Concrete step barrier.

Typically in British heraldry, the outer surface of the mantling is of the principal color in the shield and the inner surface is of the principal metal, though peers in the United Kingdom use standard colourings regardless of rank or the colourings of their arms.

He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie pop, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, electronic music and dance music.

The image on the front of the British jar shows a " marmite " (), a French term for a large, covered earthenware or metal cooking pot.

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal influenced the UK 82 style of bands like Discharge, and hardcore punk was a primary influence on thrash metal bands such as Metallica and Slayer.

** Geezer Butler, British heavy metal bassist ( Black Sabbath )

** Tony Iommi, British heavy metal guitarist

The album experimented with a variety of musical genres, including British music hall, heavy metal, ballads, ragtime, and Caribbean.

In the early 70s, Queen helped spur the heavy metal genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence ; the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in addition, they fused the music genre with a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed.

* More ( British band ), a 1980s heavy metal band

During this time, Thomas Edison was issued a British patent for a system using compressed air as an amplifying mechanism for his early cylinder phonographs, but he ultimately settled for the familiar metal horn driven by a membrane attached to the stylus.

* Domain ( album ), the debut album by the British metal band Above All

Cumings, and simultaneously the New Zealand neurologist Derek Denny-Brown, working in the United States, first reported effective treatment with metal chelator British anti-Lewisite in 1951.

Other bands such as King Crimson and Rush were also incorporating metal into their music, as well as Uriah Heep, whose " by-the-books progressive heavy metal made the British band one of the most popular hard rock groups of the early ' 70s ".