An unprecedented bombardment demolished Destroying the British front line and specially trained Education_teaching German assault units rushed Motion the survivors and captured Conquering the British front line and the second line of defence Defending British tunnellers were trapped in their galleries and taken Conquering prisoner .

An unprecedented bombardment demolished Destroying the British front line and specially trained Education_teaching German assault units rushed Motion the survivors and captured Conquering the British front line and the second line of defence Defending British tunnellers were trapped in their galleries and taken Conquering prisoner .

An unprecedented bombardment demolished Destroying the British front line and specially trained Education_teaching German assault units rushed Motion the survivors and captured Conquering the British front line and the second line of defence Defending British tunnellers were trapped in their galleries and taken Conquering prisoner .

Hasty counter-attacks Attack by the British were repulsed Defending amidst the darkness , smoke Ingestion and dust , which left British artillery observers unable to see Perception_active the front line .

Hasty counter-attacks Attack by the British were repulsed Defending amidst the darkness , smoke Ingestion and dust , which left British artillery observers unable to see Perception_active the front line .

The British guns continued to fire on the German front line long after the German raiders had crossed Motion_directional no man 's land but an organised Arranging counter-attack Attack at was conducted Action with artillery support Supporting .

A final attempt to recapture the lost Earnings_and_losses ground on 14 May was defeated Conquering and the British consolidated Cause_change_of_strength a new line further back , on ground less exposed Reveal_secret than the Kink .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Orgreave was a violent Violence confrontation on 18 June 1984 between police and pickets at a British Steel Corporation ( BSC ) coking plant in Orgreave , in Rotherham , South Yorkshire .

It was a pivotal event Social_event in the 1984–85 UK miners ' strike Attack , and one of the most violent Violence clashes Quarreling in British industrial history .

Threatened with complete destruction Destroying and unable to escape Escaping , the British captain surrendered Surrendering .

The action was a rare victory for the French in the Mediterranean Sea , which had been largely under British control Control since the French Mediterranean Fleet had been destroyed Destroying in 1798 at the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Nile .

`` Swiftsure '' was later commissioned into the French Navy and fought Hostile_encounter at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Trafalgar in 1805 , where the ship was recaptured Conquering by the British and rejoined Becoming_a_member the Royal Navy .

In November 1942 , American and British forces Military_operation landed in North Africa under Operation Military_operation `` Torch '' .

The Allied forces Military_operation advancing Self_motion eastward and the British 8th Army advancing Self_motion westward after the victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein , would trap and destroy Destroying the remaining Axis forces Military_operation in North Africa .

Weakening Cause_change_of_strength as it reached Arriving higher latitudes , the storm Catastrophe transitioned Change into an extratropical cyclone on September 23 , prior to affecting Influence areas of the British Isles , and subsequently dissipated Dispersal on September 28 .

As an extratropical storm Catastrophe , Carrie brought Bringing strong storm Catastrophe surge and heavy rain to the British Isles , which claimed Statement three lives .

The Action of 11 January 1944 was a minor naval action that resulted in Causation the sinking Motion_directional of the light cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy by the British Royal Navy submarine .

Coastal batteries opened Openness fire , joined Cause_to_amalgamate by Spanish warships anchored at harbour , and drove Motion the attackers Attack back , causing Causation the British to lose grip over the blockade and allowing Preventing_or_letting several merchant convoys to slip in and out of the port .

An air of mutiny spread Dispersal over the British crews as their long stay at sea stretched Body_movement on without results Causation .

The Capture Conquering of Wurst Farm was an attack Attack by the British 58th ( 2/1st London ) Division ( 58th Division ) against the German 36th Division on 20 September 1917 , near Ypres , Belgium , during the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge , part of the Third Battle of Ypres ( Battle of Passchendaele ) .

Wurst Farm was at the lower end of Gravenstafel Ridge and several British attacks Attack in the area since 31 July had been repulsed Defending by the Germans .

The British began Process_start a desultory bombardment Attack on 31 August and the shelling Use_firearm became Becoming intense from 13 September , to `` soften Cause_change_of_strength '' the German defences , except in the area of the Fifth Army ( General Hubert Gough ) , where the slow bombardment Attack continued until before zero hour , when a surprise hurricane bombardment Attack was to be fired Use_firearm .

The British took Conquering and fifty machine-guns , then established Building outposts to the left , overlooking the Stroombeek valley .

The Alraigo Incident Catastrophe occurred Coming_to_be on 7 June 1983 , when a lost British Royal Navy Sea Harrier fighter aircraft landed Arriving on the deck of a Spanish container ship .

Operation Grapple was the name of four series of British nuclear weapons tests Testing of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs Attack carried out Action in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati ( Christmas Island ) in the Pacific Ocean as part of the British hydrogen bomb programme .

Operation Grapple was the name of four series of British nuclear weapons tests Testing of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs Attack carried out Action in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati ( Christmas Island ) in the Pacific Ocean as part of the British hydrogen bomb programme .

Many of Britain 's top scientists participated Participation in the British contribution to the Manhattan Project .

With an explosive yield of about , it remains Presence the largest British nuclear weapon ever tested Testing .

Operation Hurricane was the first test of a British atomic device .

Several key British scientists worked Employment on the Manhattan Project , but after the war the Americans ended Process_end cooperation on nuclear weapons .

In January 1947 , a cabinet sub-committee decided Deciding , in response Response to an apprehension of American isolationism and fears of Britain losing Earnings_and_losses its great power status , to resume Process_start British efforts to build Building nuclear weapons .

To test Testing the effects Achieve of a ship-smuggled atomic bomb on a port ( a threat of great concern to the British at the time ) , the bomb was exploded Destroying inside the hull of `` Plym '' , anchored Connect off Trimouille Island .

The Happiness Tour is the first concert tour Traveling by British band Hurts in support Supporting of their debut album `` Happiness '' .

The French part of the offensive was intended to be strategically decisive by breaking Bodily_harm through the German defences on the Aisne front within with casualties expected to be around A preliminary attack was to be made by the French Third Army at St Quentin and the British First , Third and Fifth armies at Arras , to capture Conquering high ground and divert German reserves from the French fronts on the Aisne and in Champagne .

The final stage of the offensive was to follow the meeting of the British and French armies , having broken Bodily_harm through the German lines , then the pursuit of the defeated German armies towards the German frontier .

The British Third and First armies achieved Achieve the deepest advance since trench warfare began Process_start , along the Scarpe river in the Battle of Arras , which inflicted Causation many losses on the Germans , attracted reserves and captured Conquering Vimy Ridge to the north .

The British remained on the offensive for the rest of the year fighting Hostile_encounter the battles of Messines , 3rd Ypres and Cambrai .

The Government 's war policy was opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act by the British commander , General Duncan Cameron , who clashed Hostile_encounter with Governor Sir George Grey and offered Giving his resignation in February 1865 .

Cameron , who viewed the war as a form of land plunder , had urged Request the Colonial Office to withdraw British troops from New Zealand and from the end of 1865 the Imperial forces began to leave Departing , replaced Change_of_leadership by an expanding New Zealand military force .

It procured Getting most of its officers , men , and equipment from the AAF , augmented Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by British , British-Indian Army , Commonwealth forces Hostile_encounter , Burmese labor gangs and an air transport section of the Chinese National Aviation Corporation ( CNAC ) .

The war Military_operation erupted Process_start soon after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks , Meskwakis , and Kickapoos , known as the `` British Band '' , crossed Motion_directional the Mississippi River , into the U.S. state of Illinois , from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832 .

U.S. officials , convinced Coming_to_believe that the British Band was hostile Hostile_encounter , mobilized Arranging a frontier militia and opened Body_movement fire Use_firearm on a delegation from the Native Americans on May 14 , 1832 .

The Menominee and Dakota tribes , already at odds with the Sauks and Meskwakis , supported Supporting the U.S. Commanded Request by General Henry Atkinson , the U.S. troops tracked Self_motion the British Band .

Militia under Colonel Henry Dodge caught Self_motion up with the British Band on July 21 and defeated Conquering them at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Wisconsin Heights .

On August 2 , U.S. soldiers attacked Attack the remnants of the British Band at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Bad Axe , killing Killing many and capturing Conquering most who remained alive .

A French frigate force that had been raiding Attack British commerce off West Africa approached Self_motion and attempted to attack Attack a convoy of valuable East Indiamen , large and heavily armed merchant vessels sailing Motion from Britain to British India and China , two ships sailing Motion for Botany Bay , and a whaler sailing Motion for the South Seas ' whale fishery .

A French frigate force that had been raiding Attack British commerce off West Africa approached Self_motion and attempted to attack Attack a convoy of valuable East Indiamen , large and heavily armed merchant vessels sailing Motion from Britain to British India and China , two ships sailing Motion for Botany Bay , and a whaler sailing Motion for the South Seas ' whale fishery .

The small British ship of the line escorted Patrolling the convoy , which otherwise had to rely on the ships ' individual armament to protect Preventing_or_letting them from attack .

Supposing his target to be a fleet of powerful warships he turned Becoming to escape Escaping and the British commander , Captain Rowley Bulteel , immediately ordered Request a pursuit Self_motion .

The action is the only occasion during the war Military_operation in which a British merchant vessel captured Conquering a large French warship .