He played the leading role in negotiating the treaty with Great Britain that ended the Revolution, and directed America's foreign affairs throughout the Confederation period.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

chief engineer of the radio set division of Electric and Musical Industries, Ltd., the largest electronic equipment manufacturer in Great Britain ; ;

director of engineering at Philco of Great Britain, Ltd., and vice president in charge of production and assistant to the president at The Brush Development Co., Cleveland, Ohio.

He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.

Numerous cooperating individuals in Great Britain, Holland, the United States, and Belgium have contributed editorially or by making calculations.

Besides the editors there were many contributors in the United States and Great Britain to Volumes 1, and 2.

For the first three weeks, the ship skirted up the east coast of Great Britain, then turned westward.

The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.

On July 14 the Security Council -- with France and Great Britain abstaining -- voted the resolution which drew the U.N. into the Congo.

Secretary-General Hammarskjold decided that it would be preferable if the U.N. troops sent into the Congo were to come from African, or at least nonwhite, nations -- certainly not from the U.S., Russia, Great Britain or France.

The Trent Affair of late 1861 threatened war with Great Britain.

Category: 1729 in Great Britain

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

With the expansion of the British Empire, and hence the growth of Anglicanism outside Great Britain and Ireland, the Communion sought to establish new vehicles of unity.

* 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

* 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.

* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The best-known and longest-running of these events is the rugby league rivalry between Great Britain and Australia ( see rugby league " Ashes ").

The Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and North America, but perhaps most especially in Great Britain and in New England, led to a proliferation of manufacturing and invention.

Tin was rare, however, being found mostly in Great Britain.

* 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Great Britain also entered a team at the Olympics Games in 1900 and in 1908, but they were organised separately from the Lions.

When the team first emerged in the nineteenth century it represented one nation-state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* Columbus Wood Bats, Great South League minor league baseball team

Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.

Because the Cubs lost two seasons to the Great Chicago Fire, the Braves have played more seasons, although the Cubs hold the record for oldest team still in its original city.

A Great Britain national Australian rules football team | British Bulldog player is chased down and tackled by a Nauru national Australian rules football team | Nauru Chief opponent as he tries to get a kick away.

The term has also been used to taunt non-Irish-born players who choose to play for the Republic of Ireland national football team, fans of Irish teams, who are members of supporters clubs outside of Ireland, and other Irish individuals living in Great Britain.

In the years 1953 – 66 the Colts played in the NFL Western Conference ( also known as division ), but were never known to have a significant rivalry with any of the other franchises in that alignment, seeing as they were the eastern-most team and the rest of the division included the Great Lakes franchises Green Bay, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and after 1961, the Minnesota Vikings.

In 1957, Rodney Young and a team from the University of Pennsylvania opened a chamber tomb at the heart of the Great Tumulus ( in Greek, Μεγάλη Τούμπα )— 53 metres in height, about 300 metres in diameter — on the site of ancient Gordion ( modern Yassihöyük, Turkey ), where there are more than 100 tumuli of different sizes and from different periods.

This was followed by a pulsed system demonstrated in May 1935 by Rudolf Kühnhold and the firm GEMA in Germany and then one in June 1935 by an Air Ministry team led by Robert A. Watson Watt in Great Britain.

Paramount Pictures ' Bob Hope was Caught In The Draft, Warner Brothers told Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante You're In The Army Now, Columbia Pictures put Fred Astaire in the army declaring You'll Never Get Rich, Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of William Tracy and Joe Sawyer Tanks a Million and 20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of Laurel & Hardy going Great Guns.

The most famous example was Stroller, who only stood but was nonetheless an Individual silver medal winner and part the Great Britain show jumping team in the 1968 Summer Olympics, jumping one of the few clean rounds in the competition.

* Great Taste Coffee Makers, also known as Presto, a Philippine Basketball Association team

* The Chicago Fire, a Major League Soccer team, was founded on October 8, 1997, the 126th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire.

His final appearance in the checkers arena was when Hellman played on the U. S. checkers team in the third International Match between the U. S. and Great Britain at Bournemouth, England.

It has been host to the University of Memphis NCAA basketball team, the Memphis Grizzlies NBA team, the Great Midwest Conference basketball tournament, the Southeastern Conference basketball tournament, the Conference USA basketball tournaments, and the 2003 Conference USA women's basketball tournament.

The Canadian ice-hockey team finished their qualifying round with 4 wins, and had a total score of 110-3 against Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, and Great Britain.

This took place after McKinley sent a team to Europe to try to figure out a silver agreement with France and Great Britain.

For example, in the late 1780s, a team from the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, originally under General William Roy began the Principal Triangulation of Britain using the specially built Ramsden theodolite.

While their anthem changed to " God Save the Queen " after the dissolution of the Great Britain side in 2007, it is still tradition for the team to use " Land of Hope and Glory " as their walk-out theme.