Sentences with phrase «british soldiers»

Although many Dunkirk boosters made the excuse that the film is supposed to be about French and British soldiers, there were also plenty of Algerian, Moroccan, and Indian soldiers who also served during World War II, largely because of European colonialism.

The year before, in Sierra Leone, a squad from the Royal Irish Regiment was taken prisoner by a group consisting mostly of armed children called the West Side Boys, as the British soldiers were hesitant to open fire.

One that comes to mind is John Adams defending the British soldiers who perpetrated the Boston Massacre.

Lord Rodger also said that even if Issa were to be applied, on the facts there would be no jurisdiction because the victims were not «in any real sense» under the control of the particular British soldiers who were, or may have been, responsible for their deaths.

He now plans to go for «huge exemplary damages» for about 20 other Iraqi families with allegations of mistreatment by British soldiers.

The American Bill of Rights contains a provision against the quartering of military personnel in civilian households — a reaction to the stationing of British soldiers in American cities, a grievance which led to the American revolution.

Leigh Day senior partner Martyn Day, partner Sapna Malik and associate Anna Crowther have appeared at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal this week to defend themselves against allegations of misconduct over claims that British soldiers tortured civilians in Iraq.

Sending British soldiers out on duty with defective equipment may breach Art 2.

Moore Blatch Medical Relations partner, Trevor Sterling, is chair of The Mary Seacole Trust following the unveiling of the statue to honour the Jamaican - born nurse who cared for wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War.

The case does not concern whether or not the Iraq War was right or lawful, but the conduct of British soldiers in Iraq during that war.

There has been a lot of press coverage about claims brought by Iraqis who alleged that their human rights were breached by British soldiers during the Iraq War.

He has recently been involved in the first «war crimes» Court Martial arising out of the alleged ill treatment of Iraqi civilians by British soldiers in Basra.

Moore Blatch Medical Relations partner, Trevor Sterling, will become chair of The Mary Seacole Trust following the unveiling of the statue to honour the Jamaican - born nurse who cared for wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War.

The inquiry, led by Sir William Gage, found that Mousa died after suffering an «appalling episode of gratuitous violence» by British soldiers.

British soldiers face new «witch hunt» as Leigh Day lodges hundreds of claims of Iraq wrongdoing [The Telegraph]

In the first of seven installments, Adams the young lawyer takes on an unpopular cause by agreeing to defend the British soldiers accused of gunning down American colonists in the Boston Massacre.

While the eight British soldiers and their captain are tried together in the series, the captain was actually tried separately, as necessitated by his defense that he never ordered them to fire.

Such appeals have included the legality of detaining terror suspects without trial, whether the deaths of six Iraqis at the hands of British soldiers was covered by the Human Rights Act, and the extradition of General Pinochet».

Pannone LLP partner, Richard Scorer, says: «The Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Court of Appeal judgment and to artificially restrict the human rights of British soldiers in this way, implying that the moment they step out of their base their human rights «end», seems partly at least to be due to a misconception that human rights would get in the way in the heat of battle and affect «life and death» decision making.

A staunch believer in the right to a fair trial, Adams even chose to defend British soldiers brought to trial after the Boston Massacre.

The families of British soldiers who died when their Snatch Land Rovers hit roadside bombs in Iraq have won the right to bring a claim under the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998).

Some 20,000 British soldiers died on the first day alone.

He started showing still - life paintings in the early 1960s and toward the end of the decade began working on large, ungainly and frankly illustrative pictures of historical episodes with titles like «John Adams Accepts the Retainer to Defend the British Soldiers Accused in the Boston Massacre.»

Existing in its original condition when it was last used as a clinic for British soldiers, the hospital will house newly commissioned installations by sculptor Jeffry Mitchell and poet and visual artist Aram Saroyan, among others.

In 2006 he produced Queen and Country, which commemorates the deaths of British soldiers in Iraq by presenting their portraits as a sheet of stamps.

The following year he presented Queen and Country, a piece that commemorated the deaths of British soldiers who died in the Iraq War by presenting their portraits as sheets of stamps.

The images amplify staged photographs of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, echoing images of U.S. atrocities at Abu Grhaib.

The images take the form of icons about each of the major characters participating in that conflict: IRA rebels, loyalist politicians, and British soldiers on patrol.

In 1914 Auguste Rodin gifted 18 sculptures to the V&A, in tribute to the British soldiers fighting alongside his own countrymen in the First World War

There was one with three British soldiers.

These particular guards are elite British soldiers and seem to fill every level the further you progress.

Each War Story is unique and has a different look at a section of World War I. You'll join a group of British soldiers as they power their way through using a massive tank with the nickname of Old Bess.

A lot more interesting to me is a piece on how modern shooters affect the general public's perceptions of modern war, which gets takes from everyone from Randy Pitchford to US / British soldiers and vets.

Its calcite crystals were originally mistaken for diamonds by British soldiers in the 19th century.

Work was interrupted on the bridge just as it was pieced together - with what must have been thousands of rivets - by the 9th Frontier War, when Newey and his team were forced to retreat to the Royal Hotel in Komga as Gcaleka warriors began crossing the Kei for battle - the hill close to the old bridge is still known as Moordenaarskop (Murderers» Hill) where a few British soldiers were killed by Xhosa warriors.

These were later augmented by disbanded British soldiers and sailors after the capture of Jamaica from Spain in 1655.

Even as the United Kingdom introduced humane societies modeled on the Royal SPCA worldwide, sometimes building them on the ruins of much older Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu humane institutions, British soldiers, sailors, entrepreneurs and colonists likewise exported trophy hunting, dogfighting, fox hunting, egg collecting, vivisection, and recreational taxidermy.

Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Hautenville, who established the British War Dog School, secured two of them to bring comfort to British soldiers on the battlefield.

Among the long avenues of gold mohur and flame - of - the - forest trees, princes chatted cordially to freedom fighters, and Hindu radicals to British soldiers.

When some British soldiers are quartered in their home, Liza is suspicious of their true reasons for being there.

Cypriot demonstration in 1930, for unification with Greece, courtesy of Alexikoua British soldiers fighting against a street riot by EOKA in 1956, courtesy of Seksen iki yüz kırk beş Typical Cypriot architecture, courtesy of AncientNicosia

In To End All Wars, Adam Hochschild pairs an account of British soldiers at war in France during World War I with a...

The British soldiers, the blissful pilgrim gawking tourists all wanted to talk.

Silversmith Paul Revere takes his famous midnight ride to warn Americans that British soldiers are advancing.

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The island has a population of around 1000 but a new church had to built in the 1900s as the island's population increased when British soldiers were stationed on the island and the church was too small to accommodate all the new arrivals.

The medieval town of «Wipers», as it was known to thousands of British soldiers, lay at the eye of the storm which raged across the fields of Flanders and which, to this day, bears witness to the cataclysmic cost of the Great War.

The Lost Patrol — Another in the John Ford marathon, this 1934 film stars Victor McLaglen (The Quiet Man, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon) as the leader of a troop of British soldiers in Mesopotamia, surrounded at an oasis by unseen Arabs who snipe them off one by one.

Consider his 2007 artwork Queen and Country, in which 160 British soldiers killed in Iraq were memorialized with facsimile sheets of postage stamps bearing their likenesses.

Sam Claflin, Asa Butterfield, and Paul Bettany star in this tense drama about the lives of British soldiers in a First World War dugout, based on R.C. Sherriff's classic play.