: In this article, inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies of British America that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as " Americans ," with occasional references to " Patriots ", " Whigs ," " Rebels " or " Revolutionaries ".

Colonists who supported the British in opposing the Revolution are usually referred to as " Loyalists " or " Tories ".

The first tank versus tank action took place on 24 April 1918 at Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, when three British Mark IVs met an advance of three German A7Vs, supported by infantry.

This interpretation was supported explicitly by the British government in the 1922 White Paper.

The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against Germany so soon after they had had a long bloody war with the British.

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.

This was a very unpopular commitment and the evacuation of British troops and subsequent handing over of the issue to the UN was widely supported by the public.

Organisations that had previously opposed British nuclear weapons supported CND, including the British Peace Committee, the Direct Action Committee, the National Committee for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Tests and the Quakers.

* 1944 – Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.

Both Belloc and Chesterton opposed British imperialism in general, as well as specifically opposing the Second Boer War, but supported British involvement in World War I.

Later the project was supported by J. Lyons & Co. Ltd., a British firm, who were rewarded with the first commercially applied computer, LEO I, based on the EDSAC design.

The documentary stated that Mountbatten and other members of the British Royal Family supported the plot and were involved in its planning.

The British provinces were isolated, lacking support from the Empire, and the soldiers supported the revolts of Marcus ( 406 – 407 ), Gratian ( 407 ), and Constantine III.

On 16 July, the Australians — supported by British tanks — launched an attack to try to take Point 24 but were forced back by German counter-attacks, suffering nearly fifty percent casualties.

Spanish authors from 1840 have usually favoured theory ( b ) while British ones have supported ( c ).

The British Royal Society of Chemistry claims that British scientist Edward Harrison developed the first practical gas mask for mass production, a claim supported by a thank-you note written by Winston Churchill.

He supported Britain in the First World War, despite his many criticisms of British policy, and opposed, in 1916, moves for an early peace.

Churchill supported the plan but British Military and government opposition led to its rejection.

The Sikhs were supported by the East India Company until they were defeated later by the British forces during the First and Second Anglo-Sikh Wars.

Consequently, the British supported Nasir Jung in this conflict.

* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.

Although the proposal seemed to have been approved, the plans of the British were thwarted by the uprising of Dost Muhammad's son Muhammad Akbar Khan, who defeated and annihilated the British-Indian garrison at Gandamak on its retreat from Kabul in January 1842.

Guest was born in New York City, the son of Peter Haden-Guest, a British United Nations diplomat who later became The 4th Baron Haden-Guest, and his second wife, Jean Pauline Hindes, a former vice president of casting at CBS.

With British forces occupying much of the country, Sher Ali's son and successor, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, signed the Treaty of Gandamak in May 1879 to prevent a British invasion of the rest of the country.

Financial backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer.

There was outright hostility to the Volunteers from the " separation women " ( so-called because they were paid " Separation Money " by the British government ), who had husbands and son fighting in the British Army in World War I, and among unionists.

During the Second Anglo-Mysore War Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan unleashed the Mysorean rockets at their British opponents effectively defeating them on various occasions.

In the Zionist movement the moderate Pro-British ( and British citizen ) Weizmann, whose son died flying in the RAF, was undermined by Britain's anti-Zionist policies.

Habibullah, Abdur Rahman's son and successor, was assassinated in 1919, possibly by family members opposed to British influence.

By the fourth battle, the British have fled to the Isle of Thanet, where Vortigern's son Vortimer there besieges them.

Jackson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of Fiona Jackson

Of Scottish parentage, Anderson was the son of a British Army officer.

* Lud son of Heli, a legendary British king who in Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical Historia Regum Britanniae founded London and was buried at Ludgate

Their other son, George Polanyi, became a well-known British economist.

Mohammed Zahir's father, son of Sardar Mohammad Yusuf Khan, was born in Dehradun, British India, his family having been exiled following the second Anglo-Afghan war.

It has also been suggested that Máel Coluim may have been a son of Owen the Bald, British king of Strathclyde perhaps by a daughter of Máel Coluim II, King of Scotland.

Coincidentally, at the same time, his son Stephen became head of the British Council branch in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The Assyrian Black Obelisk in the British Museum credits Jehu as being the " son of Omri " while the Bible describes him to be " the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi ".

The colony's new name honoured the fourth son of King George III, Prince Edward Augustus, the Duke of Kent ( 1767 – 1820 ), who subsequently led the British military forces on the continent as Commander-in-Chief, North America ( 1799 – 1800 ), with his headquarters in Halifax.

Monroe sent in General Andrew Jackson who pushed the Seminole Indians south, executed two British merchants who were supplying weapons, deposed one governor and named another, and left an American garrison in occupation.

Buoyed by their recent victory over British troops, the Buenos Aires cabildo deposed the Spanish viceroy on May 25, 1810, vowing to rule in the name of Ferdinand VII.

This institutional design reflected the conception of how Americans believed the deposed British system of Crown and Parliament ought to have functioned with respect to the royal dominion: a superintending body for matters that concerned the entire empire.

The Protectorate Ordinances ( passed in the Colony in 1896 and 1897 ) abolished the title of King and replaced it with " Paramount Chief "; chiefs and kings had formerly been selected by the leading members of their own communities, now all chiefs, even paramount ones, could be deposed or installed at the will of the Governor ; most of the judicial powers of the chiefs were removed and given to courts presided over by British " District Commissioners "; the Governor decreed that a house tax of 5s to 10s was to be levied annually on every dwelling in the Protectorate.

Action was also taken against African leaders who refused to agree to British treaties to outlaw the trade, for example against " the usurping King of Lagos ", deposed in 1851.

* March 2 – March 18 – The last King of Ceylon, Sri Vikrama Rajasinha is deposed under the terms of the Kandyan Convention, which results in Ceylon becoming a British colony.

* July 7 – The British East India Company declare Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal, to be deposed.

Schimmelpenninck and Cornwallis negotiated agreements on the status of Ceylon ( to remain British ), the Cape of Good Hope ( to be returned to the Dutch, but open to all ), and the indemnification of the deposed House of Orange-Nassau for its losses.

Two years later, the Persian nationalisation of the petroleum of Iran was halted with Operation Ajax, a British – American coup d ’ état, which deposed P. M. Mossadeq on 19 August 1953, and reinstated the deposed, absolute monarchy of the Pahlavi family.

Prince Louis of Battenberg changed his surname to Mountbatten ( its literal English translation ) during the First World War at the request of King George V. When then-Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ( the royal house of Denmark and Norway and the deposed royal house of Greece ) took British citizenship, he used this surname since he descends from the Battenberg family through his mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg.

Samuel's terms were accepted, he returned to Jerusalem, leaving Captain Alex Kirkbride as the British representative east of the Jordan until the arrival on 21 November 1920 of Abdullah, the brother of recently deposed King Faisal, who marched into Ma ' an at the head of an army of 300 men.

After the Mughal Emperor was deposed by the British East India Company, and after the company itself was dissolved, the title " Empress of India " ( or Kaiser-i-Hind, a form coined by the orientalist G. W.

The new ruler was, however, deposed by his elder brother, and obtained asylum in British territory, with a pension from the Bahawalpur revenues ; he broke his promise to abandon his claims, and was confined in the Lahore fort, where he died in 1862.

In 1953, the British and U. S. spy agencies deposed the democratically-elected government of Mossadegh in a military coup d ' état codenamed Operation Ajax, and restored the Shah as an absolute monarch.

" Jenkins ' arrest was quickly overshadowed by international affairs: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev was deposed on October 14, the British electorate voted Labour into power on October 15, and China successfully tested a nuclear weapon on October 16.

He had been recently deposed by France as King of Syria, and British officials at the Cairo Conference decided to make him the first king of Iraq.

The two sons of the amir Shir Ali Khan, Yakub Khan, who was allowed to succeed his father, but was deposed for not preventing Louis Cavagnari's murder, and Ayub Khan, who defeated the British at Maiwand, are still political prisoners in India, and are not likely to be let loose. England.

The King of Benin was eventually captured by the British consul-general Moor, deposed and sent to live out his days in Calabar.

Canul was deposed and the new Icaiche leaders promised respect and friendship with the British.

In 1941 Reza Shah was deposed and his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was installed by an invasion of allied British and Soviet troops.

King Mwanga was again deposed in 1897 when he rejected British rule and led an unsuccessful fight for independence.

In 1914 as a result of the declaration of war with the Ottoman Empire, of which Egypt was nominally a part, Britain declared a Protectorate over Egypt and deposed the Khedive, replacing him with a family member, Fuad, who was made Sultan of Egypt by the British.

With the outbreak of the First World War, Abbas Hilmi Pasha sided with the Ottoman Empire, which had joined the war on the side of the Central Powers, and was subsequently deposed by the British, who declared Egypt a protectorate, which means formally adding a territory to British sovereignty under a subordinate ruler, while he was on a visit to Vienna.