And even the Brits have their own version.

The British also asked for help from the Russians.

British politicians responded by reforming the social safety net.

Yes, the British were ultimately defeated.

Britons top the list, followed by Germans and the French.

The British quickly began to build other settlements.

The British quickly began to build other settlements.

It is on this basis that British Conservatives oppose the proposed constitution.

The British lost 92,000 soldiers in the Mesopotamian campaign.

In 1814, the British took definitive control of the island.

The British assisted in the Air Force's establishment, providing equipment and training.

Later in August, the English raided the French village of Chedabouctou.

Until 1910, British legislators were unpaid.

The British have nearly the opposite perspective.

British lawyers liked to recommend this model to other countries.

The English obtained for only half a year the right to trade.

The British believed they could convince Italy to abandon Germany through appeasement.

By 2008, after London was awarded the 2012 Games, the total was 245 million, and stood at 264 million this year.

The British and the rest of us have made many such errors in the last decade.

In the treaty settlement, the British ceded most Indian lands to the new United States.

The Bahamas became a British Crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy.

The British and the Iraqis formalized the relationship between the two nations with the Anglo Iraqi Treaty of 1922.

And the British brought modern administration, as well as railways, universities, and hospitals, to India.

In 1921, the British were the first to cross the North Atlantic in an airship.

By 22 April 1948 the British were only in control of the Haifa port area.

Originally inhabited by the Arawaks, Anguilla was first colonized by British settlers in 1650.

The British moved some members of the tribes from the unsettled areas of the frontier to the settled (colonial) areas.

History Kaduna was founded by the British in 1913 and became the capital of Nigeria's former Northern Region in 1917.

The British had previously controlled the city and maintained a buffer between the Jewish and Arab populations.

The sociologist Ashis Nandy once memorably wrote that cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the British.

Yet, in 1915, the British, even in the face of an ongoing war, were unwilling to assume Russia s liabilities.

If asked in a referendum, the British might well leave the EU, which they never liked.

British bankers threatened that they would never again invest in these untrustworthy Americans.

Emperor Tewodros committed suicide, the British withdrew, and their commander, Lieutenant General Sir Robert Napier, was made Baron Napier of Magdala.

But if the British imagine that the Constitution will just die, and that that will be the end of the story, they are deceiving themselves.

Afghanistan has never been a place any foreign army could stay for long. The British were burned there twice (1840 1, 1878 80).

If asked in a referendum, the British might well leave the EU, which they never liked. This would have the unintended consequence of strengthening the federalists on the continent, thereby accelerating the integration dynamic that the British now want to stop.

After a three month journey through the mountains, the British reached Magdala, released the hostages, and burned the capital to the ground.

The currency was in theory governed by a rules based Currency Board, which the British invented for their smaller colonies.

I have often thought that cricket is really, in the sociologist Ashis Nandy s phrase, an Indian game accidentally discovered by the British.

Have the British, French, and even Israelis become armed extensions of the US in their respective spheres of influence?

A British landing was thrown back on 4 November 1914 in the Battle of Tanga, and the town was not taken until 7 July 1916.

In November 1917, the British under General Allenby breached the Ottoman defensive positions at the Battle of Beersheba and the Third Battle of Gaza.

The British, after a defeat at the Battle of Coronel on 1 November, sent a large force to track down and destroy the victorious German cruiser squadron.

The British also took an interest in Africa, using the East Africa Company to take over what are now Kenya and Uganda.