Despite his subsequent defeat by the Prussians, Russians and British allies, exile and death, no victorious power has reversed that decision or tried to remove Corsica from France.

" Saville stated that British paratroopers " lost control ", fatally shooting fleeing civilians and those who tried to aid the civilians who had been shot by the British soldiers.

Pinochet tried to defend himself by referring to the State Immunity Act of 1978, an argument rejected by the British justice.

Biographer Christopher Sandford writes, " Over the years, most British rockers had tried, one way or another, to become black-by-extension.

The British and Danish Conservatives tried to maintain a group of their own called the European Democrats ( ED ), but lack of support and the problems inherent in maintaining a small group forced ED's collapse in the 1990s, and its members crossed the floor to join the EPP Group.

However, where the insurgents dominated the routes by which the British tried to funnel reinforcements into the city, there was fierce fighting.

The third major scene of combat during the week was at North King Street, behind the Four Courts, where the British, on Thursday, tried to take a well-barricaded rebel position.

After the Federation of the West Indies collapsed in 1962, the British government tried to form a small federation out of its remaining dependencies in the Eastern Caribbean.

With war in Europe increasingly likely, the British tried to placate the Arab population of Palestine.

Across Europe Bricha (" flight "), an organization of former partisans and ghetto fighters, smuggled Jewish holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe to Italy, where small boats tried to breach the British blockade of Palestine.

In Dublin, the " Squad " and elements of the IRA Dublin Brigade were amalgamated into the " Active Service Unit ", under Oscar Traynor, which tried to carry out at least three attacks on British troops a day.

As part of a dual strategy to avoid war via deterrence and appeasement of Germany, British leaders warned that they would go to war if Germany attacked Poland while at the same time tried to avoid war by holding unofficial talks with such would be peace-makers like the British newspaper proprietor Lord Kemsley, the Swedish businessman Axel Wenner-Gren and another Swedish businessmen Birger Dahlerus who attempted to work out the basis for a peaceful return of Danzig.

Ribbentrop tried to convince Matsuoka to urge the government in Tokyo to attack the great British naval base at Singapore, claiming the Royal Navy was too weak to retaliate due to its involvement in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Therefore, the British tried to encourage Chinese opium use to enhance their balance, and they delivered it from Indian provinces under British control.

He added steeplechase to his program, although he had only tried the event twice before, the latest being a two-mile steeplechase victory at the 1922 British Championships.

Bennett tried to combat the depression by increasing trade within the British Empire and imposing tariffs for imports from outside the Empire, promising that his measures would blast Canadian exports into world markets.

Although the British discovered the presence of the Argentine base in 1978, protested and tried to resolve the issue by diplomatic means, no effort was made to remove them by force until after the Falklands War.

Ezra Lee, Continental Army ) tried and failed to sink the British warship HMS Eagle, flagship of the blockaders in New York harbor on September 7, 1776.

During his discussions with George Hammond, first British Minister to the U. S. from 1791, Jefferson tried to achieve three important goals: secure British admission of violating the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) ; vacate their posts in the Northwest ( the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River north of the Ohio ); and compensate the United States to pay American slave owners for the slaves whom the British had freed and evacuated at the end of the war.

In 1958, the United Kingdom tried to establish an independent West Indies Federation comprising most of the former British West Indies.

A 2005 study in the British Medical Journal found that learning and practising the didgeridoo helped reduce snoring and obstructive sleep apnea by strengthening muscles in the upper airway, thus reducing their tendency to collapse during sleep.

In the United States Declaration of Independence, the British government is cited to have been reducing the American people under absolute despotism: " But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security ".

* 1908 5 August – The British Ambassador in Madrid informed the Spanish Minister of State ' as an act of courtesy ', of the British Government's intention to build a fence along the line of British sentries on the isthmus to prevent smuggling and reduce sentry duty.

While each German ship was more expensive than the last, the British managed to reduce the cost of the succeeding generations of Bellerophon and St. Vincent class battleships.

In April 2005 the British Government announced plans to construct an airport on Saint Helena to bolster the Island's economy, and reduce the dependence on boats to supply the Island.

Counter-battery fire to reduce British artillery fire were to be increased to protect the Eingreif divisions as they advanced.

His refusal threatened to damage British attempts to gain influence in Persia, but Edward resented his ministers ' attempts to reduce the King's traditional powers.

Lloyd George engaged in almost constant intrigues to reduce the power of the generals, including trying to subordinate British forces in France to the French General Nivelle.

Since the disastrous election result in 1924 the Liberals were now very much the third party in British politics, but still Lloyd George was able to release money from his fund to finance candidates and ideas for public works to reduce unemployment ( as detailed in pamphlets such as the " Yellow Book " and the " Green Book ").

Raeder's strategy which was a modified version of the " double pole " strategy he had devised before the war called for the Panzerschiffe, auxiliary cruisers and submarines to attack British merchantmen all over the world to force the Royal Navy to divert its strength while at the same time the main surface ships would make frequent raids into the North Sea to gradually reduce the Royal Navy's strength.

Weatherization ( American English ) or weatherproofing ( British English ) is the practice of protecting a building and its interior from the elements, particularly from sunlight, precipitation, and wind, and of modifying a building to reduce energy consumption and optimize energy efficiency.

The South Sea Company was a British joint-stock company founded in 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of national debt.

In February he told British diplomat Anthony Eden that he planned to reduce the SA by two thirds.

Both Salisbury and Chamberlain wanted to maintain China's integrity lest partition reduce the country's value as a market for British goods.

* It was thought that adding south facing conservatories to British houses would reduce energy consumption by providing extra insulation and warmth from the sun.

Mitchel through his paper called for resistance against British rule in Ireland, through the non-payment of rents, and preventing the export of food from the country and became the most vocal in highlighting how the British, in his opinion, deliberately exasperated and mismanaged the Irish Potato Famine to reduce the population ( which the British Government considered to have a surplus ) to more manageable levels.

Pattullo was also a great advocate for British Columbia, and suggested such things as the annexation of Yukon by BC, and the construction of the Alaska Highway to reduce the power of eastern Canada over BC.

By 1849 " a central part of British capital's import strategy was to reduce the cost of food through cheap foreign imports and in this way to reduce the cost of maintaining labour power "( van Houten ).

* 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.

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

To this end, in the early 1880s, he purchased numerous newspapers in England, all of which were to advocate the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of " the British Republic ".

In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in West Germany and eventually included all of the American, British, and French zones, excluding those three countries ' zones in Berlin, while the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Germany.

The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans with the aims of ending British rule in Ireland and establishing the Irish Republic at a time when the British Empire was heavily engaged in the First World War.

FNC is carried in the Republic of Ireland by the British Sky Broadcasting ( BSkyB ) satellite-television network ( Sky ), which is 40-percent owned by FNC's parent ( News Corporation ).

In the United Kingdom, this is known as British Summer Time ( BST ); in the Republic of Ireland it is called Irish Standard Time ( IST )— officially changing to GMT in winter.

When William of Orange, ruler of the Dutch Republic, occupied the British throne with his wife Mary in what has become known as the Glorious Revolution, gin became vastly more popular, particularly in crude, inferior forms, where it was more likely to be flavoured with turpentine as an alternative to juniper.

In 1949, the three western occupation zones ( American, British, and French ) were combined into the Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG, West Germany ).

On 1 July 1997, sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), ending over one and a half centuries of British rule.

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, and formerly a British crown colony.

After World War II, Hamburg was in the British Zone of Occupation and became a state of the then Federal Republic of Germany in 1949.

In 1983, British journalist Anthony Grey published a controversial book in which he claimed that Holt had been an agent for the People's Republic of China and that he had been picked up by a Chinese submarine off Portsea and taken to China.

Today there are an estimated 700, 000 people of Irish ancestry in Argentina, approximately 15. 5 % of the Republic of Ireland's current population ; however, these numbers may be far higher, given that many Irish newcomers declared themselves to be British, as Ireland at the time was still part of the United Kingdom and today their descendants integrated into Argentine society with mixed bloodlines.

The Sinn Féin MPs withdrew from the British Parliament and declared an Irish Republic, with themselves as the legitimate government.

The most contentious areas of the Treaty for the IRA were abolition of the Irish Republic declared in 1919, the status of the Irish Free State as a dominion in the British Commonwealth and the British retention of the so called Treaty Ports on Ireland's south coast.

All of the European colonies on the Indian subcontinent which were not part of the British Raj have been annexed by the Republic of India since it gained its independence from the British Empire.

* Republic Day, celebrates the independence of Somalia from Italy and the unification of British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland to form Somali Republic.

* 1900 – The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces during the Second Boer War resulted in a British defeat.