The British also won one of the tennis events : the men 's doubles .

Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily .

Two members of British intelligence obtained Getting the body of Glyndwr Michael , a tramp who died Death from eating Ingestion rat poison , dressed Wearing him as an officer of the Royal Marines and placed Placing personal items on him identifying Check him as the fictitious Captain ( Acting Major ) William Martin .

Correspondence between two British generals which suggested Statement that the Allies planned Arranging to invade Greece and Sardinia , with Sicily as merely the target of a feint , was also placed Placing on the body .

With the approval Supporting of the British Prime Minister , Winston Churchill and the military commander in the Mediterranean , General Dwight D. Eisenhower , the plan began Process_start by transporting Sending the body to the southern coast of Spain by submarine and releasing it close to shore , where it was picked up Choosing the following morning by a Spanish fisherman .

The nominally neutral Spanish government shared Communication copies of the documents with the , the German military intelligence organisation , before returning the originals to the British .

Montagu 's work Creating formed Creating the basis for the 1956 British film `` The Man Who Never Was '' .

The Atlantic campaign Military_operation of 1806 was a complicated series of manoeuvrees and counter-manoeuveres conducted Action by squadrons of the French Navy and the British Royal Navy across the Atlantic Ocean during the spring and summer of 1806 , as part of the Napoleonic Wars .

Believing Coming_to_believe that the French Navy would not be capable of organised resistance at sea during the winter , the First Lord of the Admiralty Lord Barham withdrew Escaping the British blockade squadrons to harbour .

Taking Bringing advantage of the reduction in the British forces Military_operation off the port , Napoleon ordered Request two heavy squadrons to sea , under instructions Education_teaching to raid Attack British trade routes while avoiding Preventing_or_letting contact with equivalent Royal Navy forces Military_operation .

Taking Bringing advantage of the reduction in the British forces Military_operation off the port , Napoleon ordered Request two heavy squadrons to sea , under instructions Education_teaching to raid Attack British trade routes while avoiding Preventing_or_letting contact with equivalent Royal Navy forces Military_operation .

Two British squadrons were hastily mustered and dispatched Arranging in pursuit , one under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Strachan and the other under Rear-Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren .

Other squadrons already at sea became Becoming embroiled in the campaign : a smaller squadron that had been raiding Attack the African coast under Commodore Jean-Marthe-Adrien L'Hermite since August 1805 provided Supply a diversion to the major campaign but failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to draw Removing off significant British forces Military_operation , while the remnants of a French squadron under Contre-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Durand Linois that had been operating Being_in_operation in the Indian Ocean since 1803 was intercepted Preventing_or_letting and defeated Conquering by Warren in March , after a chance encounter on its journey back to France .

One was intercepted Preventing_or_letting and destroyed Destroying by British forces Military_operation and others were so badly damaged Damaging in the storm that they were forced Military_operation to shelter Assistance in American ports .

While extratropical , Isaac brushed Motion the British Isles , producing Manufacturing below gale-force winds .

The Cherry Valley massacre was an attack by British and Iroquois forces on a fort and the village of Cherry Valley in eastern New York on November 11 , 1778 , during the American Revolutionary War .

A mixed Cause_to_amalgamate force of Loyalists , British soldiers , Seneca and Mohawks descended on Motion_directional Cherry Valley , whose defenders , despite warnings , were unprepared for the attack .

Diaries belonging to British soldiers during the campaign state the regiment as being the `` butchers '' and given Giving that Butler was the overall commander of the expedition , there is controversy as to who actually ordered Arranging or failed to restrain Hindering the killings .

The Atlantic campaign Military_operation of May 1794 was a series of operations Military_operation conducted Action by the British Royal Navy 's Channel Fleet against the French Navy 's Atlantic Fleet , with the aim of preventing Preventing_or_letting the passage of a strategically important French grain convoy travelling Traveling from the United States to France .

The French lost Earnings_and_losses seven battleships ; the British none , but the battle Hostile_encounter distracted Hindering the British fleet long enough for the French convoy to safely reach Arriving port .

The French lost Earnings_and_losses seven battleships ; the British none , but the battle Hostile_encounter distracted Hindering the British fleet long enough for the French convoy to safely reach Arriving port .

The French Atlantic Fleet , under Admiral Villaret de Joyeuse , was tasked Confronting_problem with keeping Preserving the British Channel Fleet occupied Placing long enough for the convoy to reach Arriving France safely .

The Channel Fleet , commanded Control by Lord Howe , knew Know of the convoy Patrolling 's passage , and dispatched Sending squadrons to protect Defending British commerce while pursuing Aiming Villaret himself with the main body of the Royal Navy 's Channel Fleet .

In the battle Hostile_encounter , the British fleet inflicted Causation a heavy defeat Conquering on the French after a bitterly contested Quarreling day of fighting Hostile_encounter .

The battle Hostile_encounter was the first in a series of defeats Earnings_and_losses the French Navy suffered Confronting_problem during the early years of the war Military_operation , which bred Creating a defeatist attitude and an unwillingness among the French officer corps to engage Hostile_encounter the British at sea .

The operation was carried out Military_operation by Brigadier Gerald Lathbury 's 1st Parachute Brigade , part of the British 1st Airborne Division .

They would then capture Conquering the bridge and secure the surrounding area until relieved Cure by the advance of British XIII Corps , which had landed Self_motion on the south eastern coast three days previously .

Because the bridge was the only crossing on the river and would give Giving the British Eighth Army access to the Catania plain , its capture Conquering was expected to speed Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the advance Motion and lead to Causation the defeat Conquering of the Axis forces in Sicily .

Despite this and the defence Defending by German and Italian forces , the British paratroops captured Conquering the bridge , repulsed Defending attacks Attack and held Defending out against increasing Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale odds until nightfall .

The following day the British units joined Becoming_a_member forces and the 9th Battalion , Durham Light Infantry , with tank support Supporting , attempted to recapture Conquering the bridge .

British nuclear tests Testing at Maralinga occurred Presence between 1956 and 1963 at the Maralinga site , part of the Woomera Prohibited Area in South Australia and about 800 kilometres north-west of Adelaide .

The Maralinga tests Testing were subject to extreme secrecy , but by the late 1970s there was a marked change Change in how the Australian media covered Hiding_objects the British nuclear tests Testing .

This was changed Change to no more than 18 days a year , which is in line with British government guidelines regarding government buildings .

The Bishops ' Wars Hostile_encounter of 1639 and 1640 are generally viewed Perception_active as the starting Process_start point of the 1639–1652 Wars Hostile_encounter of the Three Kingdoms that ultimately involved Cause_to_be_included the whole of the British Isles .

The plan was for six kayaks ( called `` canoes '' by the British ) to be taken to the area of the Gironde estuary by submarine .

Many of the British prisoners were put on Placing a sloop and allowed Preventing_or_letting to sail Motion back to England .

The Irish War Hostile_encounter of Independence ( ) or Anglo-Irish War Hostile_encounter was a guerrilla war Hostile_encounter fought Hostile_encounter in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army ( IRA , the army of the Irish Republic ) and British forces Military_operation : the British Army , along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) and its paramilitary forces Military_operation the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary ( USC ) .

The Irish War Hostile_encounter of Independence ( ) or Anglo-Irish War Hostile_encounter was a guerrilla war Hostile_encounter fought Hostile_encounter in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army ( IRA , the army of the Irish Republic ) and British forces Military_operation : the British Army , along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) and its paramilitary forces Military_operation the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary ( USC ) .

In September , the British government outlawed the Dáil and Sinn Féin and the conflict Hostile_encounter intensified Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale .

The IRA began Process_start ambushing Attack RIC and British Army patrols Patrolling , attacking Attack their barracks and forcing isolated barracks to be abandoned GiveUp .

The British government bolstered Cause_change_of_strength the RIC with recruits from Britain—the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries—who became Becoming notorious for ill-discipline and reprisal attacks Attack on civilians , some of which were authorised Preventing_or_letting by the British government .

The British government bolstered Cause_change_of_strength the RIC with recruits from Britain—the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries—who became Becoming notorious for ill-discipline and reprisal attacks Attack on civilians , some of which were authorised Preventing_or_letting by the British government .

The conflict Hostile_encounter also involved Cause_to_be_included civil disobedience , notably the refusal Agree_or_refuse_to_act of Irish railwaymen to transport British forces Military_operation or military supplies Supply .

In mid-1920 , republicans won control Control of most county councils , and British authority collapsed Destroying in most of the south and west , forcing Causation the British government to introduce emergency powers .

In mid-1920 , republicans won control Control of most county councils , and British authority collapsed Destroying in most of the south and west , forcing Causation the British government to introduce emergency powers .

On Bloody Sunday in Dublin , 21 November 1920 , fourteen British intelligence operatives were assassinated Killing in the morning ; then in the afternoon the RIC opened Openness fire on a crowd at a Gaelic football match Competition , killing Killing fourteen civilians and wounding Bodily_harm 65 .

The British government declared Expressing_publicly martial law in much of southern Ireland .

The centre of Cork city was burnt out Destroying by British forces Military_operation in December 1920 .

In May 1921 , Ireland was partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act , which created Creating Northern Ireland .

This ended Process_end British rule in most of Ireland and , after a ten-month transitional period overseen by a provisional government , the Irish Free State was created Creating as a self-governing Dominion on 6 December 1922 .