The destruction of the French Mediterranean fleet allowed the Royal Navy to return to the sea in force, as British squadrons set up blockades off French and allied ports.

The UK was allied with France ( by the Entente Cordiale ) and Russia, and when the First World War broke out in 1914, the British Army sent the British Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium to prevent Germany from occupying these countries.

British and Afghan National Army | allied forces at Kandahar after the 1880 Battle of Kandahar.

The " Royalist democrats " or monarchiens, allied with Necker, inclined toward organising France along lines similar to the British constitutional model ; they included Jean Joseph Mounier, the Comte de Lally-Tollendal, the comte de Clermont-Tonnerre, and Pierre Victor Malouet, comte de Virieu.

Meanwhile, Japan ( allied to Germany and Italy since September 1940 ) attacked the British in Southeast Asia and the United States in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 ; Germany then completed its over-extension by declaring war on the United States.

Fearing that Britain's victory over France in the Seven Years War ( 1756 – 1763 ) threatened the European balance of power, Spain allied themselves to France but suffered a series of military defeats and ended up having to cede Florida to the British at the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), which ended the Seven Years ' War.

While he waged jihad against Sikhs in North-Western India, his followers fought the British after his death and allied itself with the Indian Mutiny.

* 1740 – A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

The British built fortresses in Jericho during World War II with the help of the Jewish company Solel Boneh, and bridges were rigged with explosives in preparation for a possible invasion by German allied forces.

Gandhi called on the British to leave India ; Nehru, though reluctant to embarrass the allied war effort, had no alternative but to join Gandhi.

After the early explorations, the U. S. government sought to establish control of the region, since trade along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers was still dominated by British and French traders from Canada and allied Indians, especially the Sauk and Fox.

French settlement was hampered by their hostilities with the Iroquois, who allied themselves with the British.

Those Tuscarora who allied with the British in the American Revolution resettled with other Iroquois tribes in present-day Ontario, where they are part of the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation.

* The official " final and corrected " casualty figures for British Army, including the Territorial Force ( not including allied British Empire forces ) were issued on 10 March 1921.

* July 10 – WWII – Allied invasion of Sicily: The allied invasion of Axis-controlled Europe begins with landings on the island of Sicily off mainland Italy, by the Seventh United States Army and the British Eighth Army including the 1st Canadian Infantry Division.

The name refers to the two main enemies of the British colonists: the royal French forces and the various Native American forces allied with them.

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm | Montcalm trying to stop allied Native Americans from attacking British soldiers and civilians as they leave after the Battle of Fort William Henry.

Public sentiment in the still neutral United States leaned towards the British and French ( allied ) forces, due to the harsh treatment of civilians by the German Army, which had invaded and occupied large parts of Belgium and northern France.

Paul Kruger, the President of the South African Republic, issued an ultimatum on 9 October 1899, giving the British government 48 hours to withdraw all their troops from the borders of both the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, failing which the Transvaal, allied to the Orange Free State, would declare war on the British government.

This gave the British 48 hours to withdraw all their troops from the border of Transvaal ; otherwise the Transvaal, allied with the Orange Free State, would declare war.

British and allied forces had conquered Baghdad, Damascus, and Jerusalem during the war and most of the Empire was divided among the European allies.

The Cherokees gave sanctuary to a band of Shawnee in the 1660s, but from 1710 to 1715 the Cherokee and Chickasaw, allied with the British, fought Shawnee, who were allied with the French, and forced them to move northward.

Where the allied armies were slow to deploy and study the tank in the inter-war years, the German army was very eager to study and master this new technology.

Concurrently, during a military operation in World War II, following a German air raid on the Italian harbour of Bari, several hundred people were accidentally exposed to mustard gas, which had been transported there by the allied forces to prepare for possible retaliation in the event of German use of chemical warfare.

Other up-and-coming filmmakers allied themselves to this Oberhausen group, among them Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Herzog, Jean-Marie Straub, Wim Wenders, Werner Schroeter and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg in their rejection of the existing German film industry and their determination to build a new industry founded on artistic excellence rather than commercial dictates.

Parachutes were well-developed by 1918 having previously been used by balloonists, and were adopted by the German flying services during the course of that year ( the famous " Red Baron " was wearing one when he was killed ), but the allied command continued to oppose their use on various grounds.

Protestantism in France was considered a grave threat to national unity, as the Huguenot minority felt a closer affinity to ( and often allied themselves with ) German and Dutch Calvinists than with their fellow Frenchmen.

France was allied with Russia and so was ready to commit to war against the German Empire.

In November 1942 Vichy France was finally occupied by German forces, because the war in North Africa was coming to an end ; the Germans foresaw a threat in southern Europe by the allied forces.

Albanians fought against the Italians while, during Nazi German occupation, Balli Kombëtar allied itself with the Germans and clashed with Albanian communists, which continued their fight against Germans and Balli Kombëtar at the same time.

Thus, Alexander remained in command of the 15th Army Group, and, with the support of numerous allied commanders, controversially authorised the bombing of the historic abbey at Cassino, which resulted in little advance on the German Winter Line defences.

In World War II after initial deployment to France as part of the BEF, the regiment lost two battalions at the Defence of Calais ( 2nd Bn KRRC and 1st Bn the Queen Victoria's Rifles ( TA )) where a Green Jacket Brigade held up the German advance to enable the evacuation of the allied armies at Dunkirk.

But he agreed with the Left Communists that a separate peace treaty with an imperialist power would be a terrible morale and material blow to the Soviet government, negate all its military and political successes of 1917 and 1918, resurrect the notion that the Bolsheviks secretly allied with the German government, and cause an upsurge of internal resistance.

The event invites WWII allied veterans to help celebrate their participation in the liberation of the Netherlands from German occupation.

The final assault being fatally delayed, the Ottoman forces were swept away by allied Habsburg, German and Polish forces spearheaded by the Polish king Jan at the

Around the same time the German Reich allied with the Empire of Japan, a rival of the USSR in the Far East and an open enemy in the Soviet – Japanese Border Wars in 1938 – 39.

On the evening of July 2, 1915, Eric Muenter, an anarchist and onetime German professor at Harvard and Cornell universities, who opposed American support of the allied war effort, broke into the Senate chamber, laid dynamite around Marshall's office door, and set it with a timer.

In the Gallipoli Campaign in the spring of 1915 in the eastern Mediterranean, German U-boats, notably the U-21, prevented close support of allied troops by 18 pre-Dreadnought battleships by sinking two of them.

720 German civilians were killed by allied air raids Civilian deaths caused by the Blockade of GermanyGerman official statistics estimated 763, 000 civilian malnutrition and disease deaths were caused by the blockade of Germany.

" There was also a major controversy when Patton declared, perhaps not entirely seriously, that the surrendered German soldiers in allied control should be rearmed and sent to fight the Soviets as well.

Charles allied himself with his brother Louis the German to resist the pretensions of the new emperor Lothair I, and the two allies defeated Lothair at the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye on 25 June 841.

The wartime allied propaganda immediately seized this opportunity to portray the German invasion as the " Rape of Belgium ".

“ Will be sentenced to death for treason any person who, with the intention of helping the hostile Power, or of causing harm to the German or allied troops, is guilty of one of the crimes of paragraph 90 of the German Penal Code .” The case referred to in the above-mentioned paragraph 90 consists of " Conducting soldiers to the enemy.