British India was centred Placing on the principal ports of Bombay , Madras and Calcutta , administered Control by the East India Company .

British forces in India were considerably stronger than the French , with the British Indian Army supported Supporting by British Army detachments and a Royal Navy squadron under Rear-Admiral William Cornwallis .

British forces in India were considerably stronger than the French , with the British Indian Army supported Supporting by British Army detachments and a Royal Navy squadron under Rear-Admiral William Cornwallis .

British forces in India were considerably stronger than the French , with the British Indian Army supported Supporting by British Army detachments and a Royal Navy squadron under Rear-Admiral William Cornwallis .

News of the outbreak of war took Conquering five months to reach the Indian Ocean but British forces , recently engaged Forming_relationships in the Third Anglo-Mysore War , were mobilised Becoming_a_member in preparation and immediately seized the ports of French India .

British forces constructed Building trenches and batteries , often under heavy fire , over the following weeks .

This was the worst buffer Process_end stop Motion collision on British main line railways , though exceeded Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by the Moorgate tragedy on the London Underground .

On the afternoon of 22 May 2013 , a British Army soldier , Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers , was attacked Attack and killed Killing by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich , southeast London .

They told Telling passers-by that they had killed Killing a soldier to avenge the killing Killing of Muslims by the British armed Bearing_arms forces .

Adebolajo and Adebowale are British of Nigerian descent , were raised Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale as Christians , and converted Change to Islam .

President Vladimir Putin initially continued his vacation at a seaside resort ; he only authorised Preventing_or_letting the Russian Navy to accept Receiving British and Norwegian offers of assistance Assistance five days after the incident .

Christopher Alder was a trainee computer programmer and former British Army paratrooper who had served Assistance in the Falklands War and was commended Judgment_communication for his service with the Army in Northern Ireland .

The Gas Attacks at Hulluch were two German cloud gas attacks Attack on British troops during World War I , from 1916 , near the village of Hulluch , north of Loos in northern France .

The gas attacks Attack were part of an engagement between divisions of the II Bavarian Corps and divisions of the British I Corps .

The gas cloud and artillery bombardment were followed by raiding parties , which made Manufacturing temporary lodgements Placing in the British lines .

A large number of German casualties Catastrophe were caused Causation by the change in the wind direction and the decision to go Motion ahead against protests by local officers , which were increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by British troops , who fired on German soldiers as they fled Escaping in the open .

The German gas was of sufficient concentration to penetrate Filling the British PH gas helmets and the 16th Division was unjustly blamed Judgment_communication for poor gas discipline .

The Saint-Mihiel attack Attack established Creating the stature of the U.S. Army in the eyes of the French and British forces , and again demonstrated Coming_to_believe the critical role of artillery during World War Military_operation I and the difficulty of supplying Supply such massive armies while they were on the move Motion .

The Chilcot Report , a British inquiry Scrutiny into its decision to go to war , was published Publishing in 2016 and concluded Process_end military action may have been necessary but was not the last resort at the time and that the consequences of invasion were underestimated Judgment_communication .

Puk was captured Conquering by British forces Military_operation in 1945 while attempting to flee Escaping to Austria and was extradited Extradition to Yugoslavia the following year , where he committed Killing suicide .

After Selim 's rejection Agree_or_refuse_to_act of the ultimatum , a British squadron , commanded Control by Vice-admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth , entered Arriving the Dardanelles on 19 February 1807 and the British destroyed Destroying the Ottoman naval force in the Sea of Marmara , and anchored Connect opposite Constantinople .

After Selim 's rejection Agree_or_refuse_to_act of the ultimatum , a British squadron , commanded Control by Vice-admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth , entered Arriving the Dardanelles on 19 February 1807 and the British destroyed Destroying the Ottoman naval force in the Sea of Marmara , and anchored Connect opposite Constantinople .

The British warships were cannonaded and Duckworth was forced to sail Self_motion back to the Mediterranean on 3 March 1807 .

On 16 March 1807 , 5000 British troops embarked Self_motion on the Alexandria expedition Traveling of 1807 and occupied Control Alexandria in August , although Khedive Muhammad Ali defeated Conquering them heavily and forced them to evacuate Removing five months later after a short siege Besieging ; however , the Ottoman Empire had a little military support Supporting from France in the war Hostile_encounter with Russia .

Dominated Control by the Kikuyu people , Meru people and Embu people , the KLFA also comprised Cause_to_be_included units of Kamba and Maasai peoples who fought Hostile_encounter against the white European colonist-settlers in Kenya , the British Army , and the local Kenya Regiment ( British colonists , local auxiliary militia , and pro–British Kikuyu people ) .

Dominated Control by the Kikuyu people , Meru people and Embu people , the KLFA also comprised Cause_to_be_included units of Kamba and Maasai peoples who fought Hostile_encounter against the white European colonist-settlers in Kenya , the British Army , and the local Kenya Regiment ( British colonists , local auxiliary militia , and pro–British Kikuyu people ) .

Frank Füredi , in 'The Mau Mau War in Perspective ' suggests Convincing this was due Causation to a British policy of divide and rule but fails to cite Adducing any contemporary British government documents which support Supporting this assertion .

Frank Füredi , in 'The Mau Mau War in Perspective ' suggests Convincing this was due Causation to a British policy of divide and rule but fails to cite Adducing any contemporary British government documents which support Supporting this assertion .

General Sir Frank Kitson , who served Assistance in the British colonial forces in Kenya , authored Create_artwork a book entitled `` Gangs and Counter-gangs '' in which he describes the tactic of manipulating Hold the Mau Maus into rival gangs and pitting them against one another .

This included Cause_to_be_included 1,090 executions at the end of the war , the largest wartime use Using of capital punishment by the British Empire .

Heathrow Airport was closed Process_end and British Airways cancelled Change_event_time all departures Departing for a period .

The attendance Participation of this festival Social_event was around 50,000 , a 15,000 increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale on sales Commerce_sell of the year before , which was testament Recording to its growing Expansion success Achieve as a British music festival Social_event .

The Bali Strait Incident was an encounter between a squadron of six French Navy frigates and six British East India Company ( EIC ) East Indiamen in the Bali Strait on 28 January 1797 .

The incident took place Process_start admidst the East Indies campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars repeated French attempts to disrupt Hindering the highly valuable British trade routes with British India and Qing Dynasty China .

The incident took place Process_start admidst the East Indies campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars repeated French attempts to disrupt Hindering the highly valuable British trade routes with British India and Qing Dynasty China .

In July this force sailed Self_motion on a commerce raiding cruise off British Ceylon , but a subsequent attack into the Straits of Malacca was driven Motion off in an inconclusive engagement with two British ships of the line off Northeastern Sumatra .

In July this force sailed Self_motion on a commerce raiding cruise off British Ceylon , but a subsequent attack into the Straits of Malacca was driven Motion off in an inconclusive engagement with two British ships of the line off Northeastern Sumatra .

As Sercey left Departing Batavia he turned eastward along the northern coast of Java to avoid Preventing_or_letting the British commander in the region , Admiral Peter Rainier , who was escorting Patrolling four ships through the Straits of Malacca to the west .

Sercey did momentarily reconsider Deciding when the British ships equally declined Agree_or_refuse_to_act to attack Attack the temporarily disabled frigate `` Forte '' , but eventually withdrew Escaping completely .

The Attack Attack on Mers-el-Kébir ( 3 July 1940 ) also known as the Battle Military_operation of Mers-el-Kébir , was part of Operation Military_operation Catapult , a British naval attack Attack on French Navy ships at the naval base at Mers El Kébir on the coast of French Algeria .

The bombardment Attack killed Killing 1,297 French servicemen , sank a battleship and damaged Damaging five ships , for a British loss Earnings_and_losses of five aircraft shot Use_firearm down and two crewmen killed Killing .

Of particular significance to the British were the five battleships of the `` Bretagne '' and `` Richelieu '' classes , and the two fast battleships of the Dunkerque class , the second largest force of capital ships in Europe after the Royal Navy .

The British War Cabinet feared Change_sentiment that France would hand Giving the ships to the German Navy ( `` Kriegsmarine '' ) , giving Giving the Axis assistance Assistance in the Battle Military_operation of the Atlantic or Battle Military_operation of the Mediterranean .

Admiral François Darlan , commander of the French Navy , promised Commitment the British that the fleet would remain under French control Control but Winston Churchill and the War Cabinet judged Deciding that the fleet was too powerful to risk Risk an Axis take-over Conquering .

The attack Attack is controversial and the motives of the British are debated Quarreling .

In 1979 , P. M. H. Bell wrote Writing that `` The times were desperate ; invasion Attack seemed imminent ; and the British government simply could not afford to risk Risk the Germans seizing Getting control Control of the French fleet ...

The predominant British motive was thus dire necessity and self-preservation '' .

The Action of 9 September 1796 was an inconclusive minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter between small French Navy and British Royal Navy squadrons off northeastern Sumatra , near Banda Aceh , during the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter .

The French squadron comprised Containing six frigates engaged Hostile_encounter on a commerce raiding Attack operation Military_operation against British trade routes passing Motion_directional through captured Conquering parts of the Dutch East Indies , and posed Causation a considerable threat to the weakened British naval forces in the region .

The French squadron comprised Containing six frigates engaged Hostile_encounter on a commerce raiding Attack operation Military_operation against British trade routes passing Motion_directional through captured Conquering parts of the Dutch East Indies , and posed Causation a considerable threat to the weakened British naval forces in the region .