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The American Legion is notable for the fact that Brigadier General Benedict Arnold, who had previously served the United States and had defected to the British in 1780, was the commanding officer. [1] It was organised in October 1780 at New York. [2] The Legion accompanied Arnold in his raid upon Virginia.
La Grande-Bretagne (en anglais : Great Britain ou plus rarement Britain, en gallois : Prydain Fawr, en scots : Great Breetain, en cornique : Breten Veur, en gaélique écossais : Breatainn Mhòr, en breton : Breizh-Veur) est une île au large du littoral nord-ouest de l' Europe continentale.
In 1707, the kingdoms of England and Scotland were merged to create the Kingdom of Great Britain, and in 1801, the Kingdom of Ireland joined to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Beginning in the 16th century, the monarch was the nominal head of what came to be the vast British Empire , which covered a quarter of the world's land area at its greatest extent in 1921.
Map of the National Grid. The National Grid is the high-voltage electric power transmission network serving Great Britain, connecting power stations and major substations, and ensuring that electricity generated anywhere on the grid can be used to satisfy demand elsewhere. The network serves the majority of Great Britain and some of the ...
modifier. Le SS Great Britain est un paquebot à vapeur britannique de 3 300 tonnes, construit par l'ingénieur Isambard Kingdom Brunel en 1843. Il s'agit du premier navire de haute mer doté d'une coque de fer et d'une propulsion à hélice. Il est conservé dans le port de Bristol, où il est l'une des attractions touristiques les plus prisées.
Great Britain, or in full Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the team of the British Olympic Association (BOA), which represents the United Kingdom, competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic .
The Principal Triangulation of Britain was the first high-precision triangulation survey of the whole of Great Britain and Ireland, carried out between 1791 and 1853 under the auspices of the Board of Ordnance. The aim of the survey was to establish precise geographical coordinates of almost 300 significant landmarks which could be used as the ...
