But Britons were not astonished.

The people of Boston hated the British soldiers.

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Churchill gave Britons something to look forward to victory.

Tharrawaddy made no attempt to improve relations with Britain.

But let us suppose that the British bombed Buenos Aires.

The British, too, seem to be regarding the French with some perplexity.

But Britain is speaking with more than one voice on the issue.

During the Napoleonic Wars, most of its engagements with the British ended in defeat.

During his reign, relations with the British became increasingly strained.

The Australians had lobbied the British to defend Australia's White Australia policy.

There is no systematic evidence that British managers were inferior.

The first English colonists kept the English translation of this name, and dubbed it St. Christopher's Island.

Thereafter, tensions between British officials and colonists over western land policy diminished.

When I meet with Cameron, I will not ask him for British taxpayers money.

Europe simply cannot count on the British, at least for a while.

About 40 of British students go on to post secondary education (18 ).

Some 440 British military personnel are based in Gibraltar.7

One British social critic, quoted by the sociologist Dominique Schnapper, compares the behavior of the French, unwilling to mention ethnic discrimination, with English people of the Victorian era, who refused to talk about sex.

Other differences. Leviathan traditional partners, they all look like the Brits and their former colonies.

Hostilities between the British and the Iraqis lasted from 2 May to 30 May 1941.

They conquered Mandalay on 21 May 1942 forcing the British to retreat into India.

In the past, the relationship between the British and the French has been given a lot of importance in Canada's history.

In the 2010 election, the number of British Muslim members of the House of Commons doubled, to 16.

The bulk of British emigration, trade, and capital went to areas outside the formal British Empire.

A variation of this theory is that Gandhi actively conspired with the British to have Singh executed.

One in four British casualties were deaths, while more than half the French were.

And the Germans have much in common with the British more than they do with the Greeks, or even the Italians.

The end of the Western slave trade did not come because European culture changed, but because the British changed their laws.

Much as they may have admired her, most Britons were never convinced that the Thatcher way was the only way.

The British media have been described as feral (a word used by Tony Blair, among others).

Though Japan occupied German possessions with the blessings of the British, Hughes was alarmed by this policy.

John Desmond Bernal FRS ( 10 May 1901 15 September 1971) was one of the United Kingdom's best known and most controversial scientists.

He was the first Chairman of the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust, from October 1996 to April 2004, succeeded by Bernard Silverman.

The force found itself alongside an identical body sent by the British on the Eastern Front.

Following the request he advanced towards Baghdad in April 1916, but he turned back when news reached him of the surrender.

During this time period Acadians participated in various militia operations against the British, such as the raids on Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

No one knows exactly why the naval wing of the IRGC took the 15 British Marines captive at the end of March.

I fear that the French and Germans have now lost patience with the troublesome British, and are reluctant to cut a deal.

But it is my strong belief that full UK membership is in the interest of the British and Europe alike.

I have no idea whatever caused the rush on British foreign fighters in Syria, but suddenly the hunt for the bearded European has been re opened.

Negotiations with President Wilson began immediately, in the hope that he would offer better terms than the British and French.

It was agreed that its guards would be Jewish policemen of the Mandatory police, rather than British.

He was elected to the board of the Jewish Agency in 1935, but was imprisoned by the British in Latrun in 1946.

Corbyn s election underscores how many Britons are refusing to accept reality.