* 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.

* 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.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

Dio says that at the outset Boudica employed a form of divination, releasing a hare from the folds of her dress and interpreting the direction in which it ran, and invoked Andraste, a British goddess of victory.

As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.

Throughout the week, Aboukir Bay was surrounded by bonfires, lit by Bedouin tribesmen in celebration of the British victory.

By contrast, the British press were jubilant ; many newspapers sought to portray the battle as a victory for Britain over anarchy, and the success was used to attack the supposedly pro-republican Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Also encouraged by the British victory were the Austrian Empire and the Russian Empire, both of whom were mustering armies as part of a Second Coalition, which declared war on France in 1799.

In spite of the overwhelming British victory in the climactic battle, the campaign has sometimes been considered a strategic success for France.

" The British did not know quite what to make of President Woodrow Wilson and his conviction ( before America's entrance into the war ) that the way to end hostilities was for both sides to accept " peace without victory.

The declaration of independence by the 13 British colonies of North America, and the victory of the French Revolution of 1789, influenced early Cuban liberation movements, as did the successful revolt of black slaves in Haiti in 1791.

* Lord Beginner's song " General Election " was inspired by Attlee's victory in the 1950 British general election.

These peoples captured territory in the east and south of England, but at about the end of the fifth century, a British victory at the battle of Mons Badonicus halted the Anglo-Saxon advance for fifty years.

" In August 1777, General Sir William Howe led a British army through Delaware on his way to a victory at the Battle of Brandywine and capture of the city of Philadelphia.

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

These groups captured territory in the east and south of England, but at about the end of the fifth century, a British victory at the battle of Mons Badonicus halted the Anglo-Saxon advance for fifty years.

The Conscription Crisis of 1918 further intensified public support for Sinn Féin before the general elections to the British Parliament on 14 December 1918, which resulted in a landslide victory for Sinn Féin, whose MPs gathered in Dublin on 21 January 1919 to form Dáil Éireann and adopt the Declaration of Independence.

* 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, ( later 1st Earl of St Vincent ) and Horatio Nelson ( later 1st Viscount Nelson ) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.

* 1806 – Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.

José Froilán González gave the team its first F1 victory at the 1951 British Grand Prix.

Washington was not involved in any other major fighting on the expedition, and the British scored a major strategic victory, gaining control of the Ohio Valley, when the French abandoned the fort.

Washington followed up his victory at Trenton with another over British regulars at Princeton in early January.

The Continental Army having been funded by $ 20, 000 in French gold, Washington delivered the final blow to the British in 1781, after a French naval victory allowed American and French forces to trap a British army in Virginia.

A British end-run through Norway, made for unclear reasons — possibly for either Swedish iron ore through Narvik or Norwegian naval bases ( or both ) — fails spectacularly.

A diplomatic operation ensues on the part of the British, who fail spectacularly to prove that the incident was an aberration.

The Mahdi's forces had grown spectacularly, and by 1883 British sources placed their size at 200, 000, although that is almost certainly an overestimate.

In the agreement, the relations between the British Indian and Afghan governments, as previously arranged, were confirmed ; and an understanding was reached upon the important and difficult subject of the border line of Afghanistan on the east, towards India.

According to the Botanical Society of the British Isles ' most recent Atlas, there has been only one confirmed record since 2000.

They both viewed the work of British landscape artists John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, which confirmed to their belief that their style of open air painting gave the truest depiction of light and atmosphere, an effect that they felt could not be achieved in the studio alone.

In June 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there .< ref > In October 2007 the all-party Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey.

Abdur Rahman had confirmed the Treaty of Gandamak, leaving the British in control of the territories ceded by Yaqub Khan and ensuring British control of Afghanistan's foreign policy in exchange for protection and a subsidy.

The British Mandate ( in effect, British rule ) of Palestine, including the Balfour Declaration, was confirmed by the League of Nations in 1922 and came into effect in 1923.

It was said that this was in preparation for a tour of duty in Afghanistan, where Canadian and British forces were participating in the NATO led Afghan War ; rumours that were confirmed in February the following year, when the British Ministry of Defence revealed that Harry had secretly been deployed as a Forward Air Controller to Helmand Province in the Asian country.

St James's Palace has confirmed that the prince was in the photographs and it contacted the PCC after the palace had heard a number of British newspapers were considering publishing the photographs.

* 1922 – The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations ; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.

In January 1946, Adenauer initiated a political meeting of the future CDU in the British zone in his role as doyen ( the oldest man in attendance, Alterspräsident ) and was informally confirmed as its leader.

" The drivers were proved right, trials on modern British tanks confirmed that Molotov and SIP grenades caused the occupants of the tanks " no inconvenience whatsoever ".

If the remains are confirmed to be those of Richard, British historian and MP Chris Skidmore has called for the late King to be reburied with a full state funeral.

This boundary was confirmed in a 1 June 1912 note from the British General Staff in India, stating that the " present boundary ( demarcated ) is south of Tawang, running westwards along the foothills from near Ugalguri to the southern Bhutanese border.

British and American scientists met this news with skepticism, since they were far from reaching that benchmark ; they remained suspicious until laser scattering tests confirmed the findings a few years later.

This Act is not to be confused with the British North America Act, 1949 later renamed the Newfoundland Act in 1982-which confirmed the terms of union between Newfoundland and Canada and which made Newfoundland the tenth province.

The British Racketball Association was formed on 13 February 1984, and confirmed by the English Sports Council as the sport's governing body on 30 October 1984.

* 1783-Treaty of Paris ends Revolutionary War ; U. S. boundaries confirmed as British North America on north, Mississippi River on west, Florida on south.

Britain's First Sea Lord Admiral Fisher argued the Japanese victory at Tsushima confirmed the importance of large guns and speed on modern battleships, and in October 1905 the British began construction of HMS Dreadnought, which upon her launching in 1906 began a dreadnought naval arms race between Britain and Germany in the years before 1914.

* Lord Mansfield ( William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield ) ( 1705 – 1793 ), British jurist, presided over the Somersett Case, which confirmed slavery was not recognised by English law

Skulls were collected, these were compared to known skulls at the Smithsonian Institution, American Museum of Natural History, and British Museum, and confirmed identification of a single species, the Asiatic Black Bear, showing no morphological difference between ' tree bear ' and ' ground bear.