The British forces were ordered to seize the weapons.

American and British forces contended for Maine's territory during the American Revolution and the War of 1812, and British forces occupied eastern Maine in both conflicts.

The Special Air Service (SAS) is the special forces unit of the British Army founded in 1941 as a regiment, and later reconstituted as a corps in 1950.

British Forces Post Office (BFPO) The British Forces Post Office (BFPO) provides a postal service to HM Forces separate from that provided by Royal Mail in the United Kingdom, with BFPO addresses used for the delivery of mail in the UK and around the world.

June 18 A communist insurgency in Malaya begins against British and Commonwealth forces.

The so called Volkner incident resulted in the invasion of Opotiki by British forces in 1865.

Mufti Nizamuddin, a renowned scholar of Lahore, issued a Fatwa against the British forces and called upon the local population to support the forces of Rao Tula Ram.

Much good work on strengthening civil society has already been done by American and British forces.

The expedition had failed to achieve any of its objectives and had left a quarter of the landing force dead or wounded.

February 20 General Braddock lands in Virginia to take command of the British forces against the French in North America.

British forces retook the island in 1969 and made Anguilla a separate dependency in 1980.

Although the British had won the battle Botha's main force had managed to stay intact.

1858 in China was the victory in the Opium War by the British forces.

As a result, on 10 November 1945, Surabaya was attacked by British forces, leading to the bloody Battle of Surabaya.

In World War I, Bird's Custard was supplied to the British armed forces.

A conflict arose between the commanders of the British and American forces regarding who would supply the paratroopers and who would supply the planes to transport them.

And yet Britain s defense forces are weaker than at any time since the 1930s.

On 1 July 1916, General Haig, commander of the British Forces in France, is poised to attack.

Shortly after the First Battle of Narvik, two more German ships were sunk by British forces.

The British were largely unable to effectively interfere with the French fleet before, during or after the invasion.

First priority was to aid the French and American forces in the United States, preferably by attacking the British force in Virginia under Lord Cornwallis.

British forces liberated Bergen Belsen and Neuengamme, while Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz in Poland and the Sachsenhausen and Ravensburg camps in Germany.

The hills in front of the US forces were now abandoned, allowing them to join the British forces in Gabès later that day.

1858 was the year when the courageous uprising against the foreign occupation of India was defeated by the British forces.

However, in 1920 British forces invaded Bandar e Anzali, while being pursued by the Bolsheviks.

The British garrison in Anzali was soon evacuated without any resistance and the British forces retrieved to Manjil.

There have been well publicised cases recently in the United Kingdom about the British forces.

The division was deployed during the Battle of Normandy against the British and Canadian forces to the north of Caen.

One of the most important actions by the British forces during this period was the putting down of the Rebellions of 1837.

The Mystic River borders Chelsea on the southwest, the Chelsea Creek and Mill Creek and the Island End River on the west.

On 18 July British and Canadian forces launched Operation Atlantic and Operation Goodwood in which the Canadians captured the Caen districts on the south bank and the British captured ground to the east and south of the city.

British forces besieged and captured the city of Havana, which at the time was an important Spanish naval base in the Caribbean, and dealt a serious blow to the Spanish navy.

The occupation lasted 49 months from September 1914 to 20 October 1918 when the village was liberated by British forces.

The Jacobites defeated British forces in September at the Battle of Prestonpans, and then moved south into England.

Rommel remained convinced that U.S. forces posed little threat, while the British and Commonwealth troops were his equal.

The gun was also employed by Commonwealth forces, in formations similar to the British ones.

While the other expeditions failed in their goal of bringing all the dependencies of the former Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata under the new government in Buenos Aires, they prevented the Spaniards from crushing the rebellion.

However, the British armoured forces had only one main highway to operate on, and crucial information about the German forces in the operational area was either missing or ignored.

When he called on British forces it was thus for the common defense, not just to serve the US.

In a pre emptive move to prevent a German invasion, on 12 April 1940 British forces occupied the Faroe Islands, then a Danish amt (county).

However, after an unsuccessful advance against the Red Army along the Northern Dvina in the summer of 1919, British forces withdrew from the region and Miller's men faced the enemy alone.

The rifles in Great Britain armed the US and British expeditionary forces sent to North Russia in 1918 and 1919.

Until the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, BFPO 1 was the address for British forces serving in the then colony.

The base was occupied by British Forces in the aftermath of the Falklands War and eventually destroyed in 1982.

He did not wait for the island to be liberated and went to the repeater station where he informed the German officer in charge that he was taking over the building on behalf of the British Post Office.