List of Military Commanders - Modern Era - British

British

The word British is an adjective referring in various ways to the United Kingdom, or the island of Great Britain, and its people.

Geography

• British Isles, an archipelago in north-western Europe
• British Islands, a legal term describing the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, collectively
• British Commonwealth, an organisation of member-states mostly from the former British Empire
• British Columbia, a province of Canada

People

• British people, Britons, or Brits, subjects of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants
• Britons (historical), ancient Celtic inhabitants of the island of Great Britain south of the Firth of Forth.
• British nationality law, which governs the citizens of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the British Crown dependencies

Language

• British English, the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom
• British language (Celtic), also known as Brythonic, the ancient Celtic language once spoken in Britain, ancestral to Welsh, Cornish and Breton

History

• British Raj, rule of India in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century
• British Empire (historical), the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom when it was an imperial power

Other

• British cuisine
• British Airways, flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom

British Airways
... British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom, based in Waterside, near its main hub at London Heathrow Airport ... The British Airways Board was established in 1971 to control the two nationalised airline corporations, BOAC and BEA, and two smaller, regional airlines, Cambrian Airways, from ... all four companies were merged to form British Airways ...

British Airways - Corporate Affairs - Operations
... British Airways is the largest airline based in the United Kingdom in terms of fleet size, international flights, and international destinations and ... carried 44.5 million passengers that year, passing British Airways for the first time ... British Airways holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence, it is permitted to carry passengers, cargo, and mail on aircraft with 20 or ...

Tonga - History
... noteworthy European visitors included James Cook (British Navy) in 1773, 1774, and 1777, Alessandro Malaspina (Spanish Navy) in 1793, the first London ... Tonga became a British-protected state under a Treaty of Friendship on 18 May 1900, when European settlers and rival Tongan chiefs tried to oust the second king ... Within the British Empire, which posted no higher permanent representative on Tonga than a British Consul (1901–1970), Tonga formed part of the British Western Pacific Territories (under a colonial High Commissioner ...

January 8 - Deaths
1720) 1815 – Edward Pakenham, British general (b ... Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1941 – Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, British soldier, author, and founder of the Scout movement (b ...