In 1895, the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal to aid the Uitlanders (mainly British settlers) in the Boer republic, began.
Part French, part Latvian, but mainly British, Dixon, 53, was born in Tunisia but has lived in West London since he was a toddler.
Only the presence of a second set of investors, mainly British and other Europeans who are constrained by their benchmarks, has prevented an even bigger sell-off.
Yet again, this 54-member organisation - mainly former British colonies - is confronting divisions in its ranks on human rights.
But now our courts - and the problem lies mainly in British courts - interpret the right to a family life as an almost absolute right.
But the decision by Nigeria and South Africa to cancel the meeting would effectively see Zimbabwe readmitted to the 54-nation grouping of mainly former British colonies, Mr Howard admitted.
They will then have 18 months to hone their abilities and learn from their mistakes while still having support from Western (mainly American and British) combat troops.
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Into the good pot will go about three-quarters of the bank's existing activities, consisting mainly of its British and American banking operations, its insurance division and the less-dangerous bits of its investment bank, which is to be halved in size.
British convicts were transported, mainly into Virginia and Maryland, from 1611 until the revolution and comprised around 10% of the population there.
The British project parallels a similar programme centred mainly on Germany.
The Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812 against the British, for instance, was fought mainly by the Tennessee Riflemen, a militia corps led by Andrew Jackson.
The British-born billionaire's money comes mainly from property.
In mainly Shia Basra, most of the insurgency is aimed at British soldiers rather than Iraqis.
The group focused on an initial 189 buildings in need of protection, mainly 19th-century synagogues, mosques, monasteries and colonial British structures.
"They felt they were a cut above general markets, " says Graham Wilson, chief executive of the National Association of British Market Authorities (Nabma), which represents mainly local authority markets.
There was some traditional squabbling, mainly over savings-tax harmonisation (blocked by Britain) and British beef (blocked by France), but all this was less than usually distracting.
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The foundation, directed by Sir Patrick Fairweather, a former British ambassador to Albania and to Italy, and financed mainly by grants from David Packard, heir to America's Hewlett-Packard fortune, has been leading the attempt to ensure that Butrint's development is adequately financed and sensitively handled.
Nine (mainly European) governments have proffered a total of 5, 500 people to help the British run a southern Iraqi zone: some are already there, and the others are due to turn up later this summer.
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It has been trying to bring peace to the Solomon Islands, another former British territory, where ethnic groups from the islands of Malaita and Guadalcanal are in dispute, mainly over land.
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