The Sunda Strait campaign of January 1794 was a series of manoeuvres and naval actions fought Hostile_encounter between warships and privateers of the French Republic and a squadron of vessels sent Sending by the British East India Company to protect Defending trade in the region , later augmented Cause_change_of_strength by Dutch warships .

The campaign developed Coming_to_be as French forces based on Île de France reacted Response more quickly than the British forces in the Indian Ocean to the expansion Expansion of the French Revolutionary Wars on 1 February 1793 .

French privateers rapidly spread Dispersal along the British trade routes in the Far East , becoming concentrated around the narrow Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies .

The Royal Navy forces in the Indian Ocean were deployed Arranging elsewhere and so the East India Company , the private enterprise that ruled much of British India in the 1790s and maintained Statement their own fleet and navy , raised Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale a squadron of armed Bearing_arms merchant ships to patrol the Strait and drive Self_motion off the raiders .

The arrival Arriving of this British force on 2 January 1794 was initially a success Achieve , the squadron over-running and capturing Conquering two large and well-armed privateers on 22 January , not long after the French vessels had been beaten Bodily_harm off during an attack Attack on the British trading post at Bencoolen .

The arrival Arriving of this British force on 2 January 1794 was initially a success Achieve , the squadron over-running and capturing Conquering two large and well-armed privateers on 22 January , not long after the French vessels had been beaten Bodily_harm off during an attack Attack on the British trading post at Bencoolen .

On 24 January an action against a larger French squadron was fought Hostile_encounter in the Strait itself , but ended Process_end inconclusively and the squadrons divided , the British receiving Receiving the Dutch frigate `` Amazone '' as reinforcements .

Breen and Buchanan were returning Arriving from an informal cross-border security conference Communication in Dundalk with senior Garda officers when Buchanan 's car – a red Vauxhall Cavalier — was flagged Action down and fired Use_firearm upon by six IRA gunmen Bearing_arms , who the policemen had taken Conquering for British soldiers .

The Samarrah Offensive ( March 13 – April 23 , 1917 ) was launched Process_start by the British against the Ottomans as part of the Mesopotamian Campaign in World War I .

After Baghdad fell to the British on March 11 , 1917 , there were still 10,000 Ottoman troops north of the city , led by Khalil Pasha , who could represent a threat to Anglo-Indian forces .

The British commander , Frederick Stanley Maude , decided Deciding that , in order to avert these threats , he had to take control of the Samarrah railroad , running north of Baghdad .

Operations began Process_start on March 13 , carried forth by 45,000 British troops .

The British continued their attacks until April 23 , when the town of Samarrah and its railroad fell into their hands .

The village became a backwater until 1916 , when the British and French began the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Somme and was the site of several air operations by the Royal Flying Corps , which attacked Attack German supply dumps in the vicinity .

During the Battle of Flers–Courcelette the British Fourth Army advanced Self_motion close to the village and operations to capture Conquering it began Process_start on 1 October .

After the village was captured Conquering , the crest of the rise Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to the east became Becoming the limit Limiting of the British advance .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Quebec ( ) was fought Hostile_encounter on December 31 , 1775 , between American Continental Army forces Causation and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War Military_operation .

Arnold and the Americans maintained an ineffectual blockade Besieging of the city until spring , when British reinforcements arrived Arriving .

During the action Response , American light dragoons under Major Light Horse Harry Lee drove Preventing_or_letting off a large number of cattle that were kept Getting in the area for the use Using of the British army in New York City .

The clash Hostile_encounter inspired Influence British Major John André to write Writing a satirical ballad entitled Name_conferral `` The Cow Chace '' .

The British under Gerard Lake were anxious to finish Process_end the war Military_operation by neutralizing Defending the last substantial force that the Maratha confederacy possessed , consisting of twelve battalions Hostile_encounter of regular infantry trained by the adventurer Chevalier Dudrenec .

Lake decided Deciding to dispense Dispersal first with his artillery and later with his infantry in a series of forced marches to catch Self_motion up with these , he thus initially encountered Hostile_encounter the enemy force Request with just three brigades of cavalry , the British troopers by repeated charges were able to contain Containing the Maratha army until their infantry arrived Arriving .

The British , commanded Control by Lake were about 10,000 men strong , opposing Agree_or_refuse_to_act Sindhia 's force of 9,000 veteran infantry and 5,000 cavalry under the command Control of Abaji .

The British were also supported Supporting by allied troops from Alwar .

The combatants Hostile_encounter were a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral Francois Joseph Paul , the Comte de Grasse .

The French were able to achieve Achieve control Control of the sea lanes against the British and provided Supply the Franco-American army with siege Besieging artillery and French reinforcements Cause_change_of_strength .

Admiral de Grasse had the option to attack Attack British forces Causation in either New York or Virginia ; he opted Choosing for Virginia , arriving at Arriving the Chesapeake at the end of August .

The battle Hostile_encounter was consequently fairly evenly matched , although the British suffered Confronting_problem more casualties and ship damage Damaging , and it broke Bodily_harm off when the sun set Placing .

The British tactics have been a subject of debate Quarreling ever since .

The two fleets sailed Self_motion within view Perception_active of each other for several days , but de Grasse preferred Choosing to lure Influence the British away from the bay where de Barras was expected to arrive Arriving carrying Carry_goods vital siege Besieging equipment .

He broke Self_motion away from the British on 13 September and returned Arriving to the Chesapeake , where de Barras had since arrived Arriving .

The shootings were part of a string of attacks on Catholics and Irish nationalists by the `` Glenanne gang '' ; an alliance of loyalist militants , British soldiers and Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) police officers .

His colleague John Weir said Communication that those involved included a British soldier , two police officers and an alleged police agent : Robin 'the Jackal ' Jackson .

The Shangani Patrol ( or Wilson 's Patrol ) was a 34-soldier unit of the British South Africa Company that in 1893 was ambushed Attack and annihilated Killing by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors in Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) , during the First Matabele War .

Its dramatic last stand , sometimes called `` Wilson 's Last Stand '' , achieved Achieve a prominent place in the British public imagination and , subsequently , in Rhodesian history , similarly to events such as the Battle of The Little Bighorn in the United States , the Battle of Shiroyama in Japan , the Battle of the Alamo in Texas , and the Greeks ' last stand at Thermopylae .

Chemistry : The Tour was the second concert Social_event tour by British all-female pop group Girls Aloud .

Operation Anklet was the codename Name_conferral given Giving to a British Commando raid during the Second World War .

The British were then to go on to capture Conquering the forts that guarded Defending the straits of the Dardanelles .

The Helles landing Self_motion was mismanaged by the British commander , Major General Aylmer Hunter-Weston .

For two months the British fought Hostile_encounter several costly battles Hostile_encounter to reach Arriving the first day objectives but were defeated Conquering by the Ottoman army .

The `` Struma '' disaster joined Becoming_a_member that of SS `` Patria '' – sunk Self_motion after Haganah sabotage while laden Bringing with Jewish refugees 15 months earlier – as rallying points for the Irgun and Lehi revisionist Zionist clandestine movements , encouraging their violent revolt Change_of_leadership against the British presence in Palestine .

La Romana 's Spanish corps cooperated Collaboration with Sir John Moore 's British army in its advance Cause_to_make_progress into northern Spain and in its subsequent retreat Escaping to the northwest .

British European Airways Flight 548 was a scheduled Hold passenger flight from London Heathrow to Brussels that crashed Catastrophe near the town of Staines , England , soon after take-off Motion on 18 June 1972 , killing Killing all 118 people on board .

On 16 July 1983 a British Airways Helicopters commercial Sikorsky S-61 helicopter , `` Oscar November '' ( G-BEON ) , crashed Catastrophe in the southern Celtic Sea , in the Atlantic Ocean , when en route Sending from Penzance to St Mary 's , Isles of Scilly in poor visibility .

It remained Temporary_stay the worst British civilian helicopter accident Catastrophe until 1986 , when the Boeing 234LR Chinook helicopter G-BWFC crashed Catastrophe in the North Sea , with 45 fatalities Death .

The voyage of the `` Glorioso '' involved Cause_to_be_included four naval engagements fought in 1747 during the War of the Austrian Succession between the Spanish 70-gun ship of the line `` Glorioso '' and several British squadrons of ships of the line and frigates which tried to capture it .

The British took her to Lisbon , where she had to be broken up Destroying because of the extensive damage Damaging suffered Bodily_harm during the last battle .

Several British officers were court-martialed Judgment_communication and expelled Removing from the Navy for their poor performance against the enemy .

The Brothers in Arms Tour was a concert tour Traveling by British rock band Dire Straits .

Danish and Norwegian ships attacked Attack a British convoy off the island of Saltholm in Øresund Strait near Copenhagen .