between thehelming british compared to the americans. the british were professional soldiers. many were very decorated military men. even though the americans had 4000 troops, three quarters did not have much experience. the first conflict between u.s. soldiers and british soldiers in new orleans happened during the night attack of december 23. jackson found out from a man who jumped out of the plantation house and ran all the way to new orleans to tell jackson the british had landed. he cried out his famous line, by the eternal, they shall not sleep on our soil. they tried to push the british out. it is a very confusing time. it is both dark, and a lot of the americans don't know each other as well as the british soldiers do. both the cavalry and choctaw american indians played a massively significant part. they used the cover of darkness to move through the landscape to cause some confusion with the british. the americans were not able to push the british out. they fully retreated up the river. it makes the british think about attacking very quickly. the casualties incurred

it was overwhelming, the british compared to the americans. the british were professional soldiers. they had been fighting in europe. as for the american troops, three quarters war men who do not have any experience. so the first conflict between u.s. forces and american forces happened on december 23. jackson found out from gabriel valerie -- who jumped out of the plantation house and ran all the way back to new orleans to tell jackson the british it landed. when jackson hears this, he calls out his famous line "by the eternal, they shall not sleep on our soil." it was a very confusing time. it is dark and a lot of the americans do not know each other as well as the british soldiers did. this is also one of the points where the cavalry and the choctaw american indians fighting out here really played a massively significant part. they used to be cover of darkness and their ability to move through the landscape to really cause some confusion with the british. for the americans, they were not able to push the british out. jackson ended up forced to fully richard reid -- fully were tra

it was overwhelming with british compared to american. the british were also professional soldiers. a lot of them were decorated military men. for the americans, you had 4000 troops and three quarters of that were men who did not have a lot of experience, weren't professional soldiers, and did not have a lot of experience. the first conflict between u.s. soldiers and bridges soldiers after the battle of new orleans happened during the night of december 23. jackson found out from the youngest hillary mann -- hillary man to tellry jackson that the british have landed. he cries his favorite line out and immediately grows -- his famous line out and immediately goes. it is a dark time and a lot of the americans do not know everyone as perhaps the british soldiers do. this is one of the points where the cavalry and the choctaw american indians laid a massively significant part. the used a cover of darkness and the ability to move through the landscape here to really cause confusion with the british. the americans were not able to push the british out. jackson was forced to fully retreat u

the first occasion of an official british visit was the 24thook place on of august, 1814, when the british, under the command of major general robert ross, burned parts of official washington, including the capital building, naval yard and president smashing, -- president's mansion, known after a repeating as the white house. this was also the first official visit i was aware of by an irishman, because general roth came from county down. before emotions become too heated, i should point out americans had done precisely the same thing the year before, when on the 27th of april, 1813, they invaded, looted and burned the capital of canada, which is now toronto. during the week americans were there, they burned the parliament building and the governor's house, the equivalent of the capital and the white house, which would of course not have contributed to british restraint the following year. relations would only get better, although not only to the extent of a full-blown war did not break out. americans invaded canada a dozen times in the 19th century, and conflict repeatedly broke out over t

it was the british empire. andhe british empire british imperial india of that day included the modern-day countries of pakistan and bangladesh and india. showor future quiz benefit, the largest muslim country in the world was indonesia, and depending on which source you go to, the second or the third is either india or pakistan. and bangladesh is very high as well in terms of the muslim population. so, the british -- everything they did with respect to the ottoman empire and the caliph was done with an eye toward their own population because what they did not want to do was anger the muslim population such that they would have internal revolts. now, this will lead to some interesting decisions later, as we will discuss. i want to highlight a couple of issues leading up to world war i. empire, the ottoman established a formal relationship with the german .mpire part of the relationship with germany was economic. thatincluded the railway traveled from damascus to medina. it was completed in 1908. this was the ra

the british hold on. they do it by taking everybody at home on leave, recruiting the ennis people that they can, sending them to the front to replace losses. this is a painting by winston churchill. it shows soldiers on leave in london going to the railway station, saying goodbye, heading off to the front. everybody has to go to the front. it is seen as a crisis time. everybody is needed to hold the line. hey, the general seen as a butcher, he is dotted and tenacious. in a special order to the army, very famous words remembered to the state in britain, fight it out to the end. every position must be held. no retreat. the famous line -- with our backs to the wall, each one of us must fight on to the end. hague, for whatever his that we criticize him for, as a defensive general in this battle, he is exactly the right general to have who has to spine who is determined, fight it out and is able to inspire his troops to fight it out. the british line holds. what should ludendorff do next? the french have weake

[laughter] they attended a reception at the british embassy, and that is the british ambassador. they visited the capital and were the guests of honor in this state dining room. as it normally. ands it normally appeared, as it was set for a dinner -- a state dinner in 1961 is the best i could do. for this dinner we have the menu, clam cocktail followed by terrapin, with cornbread followed by cram -- boned capon with cranberry schauss -- cranberry sauce followed by simple salad and dessert courses, on which history appears to be silent. the following day they sailed down the potomac to mount vernon. they did not visit washington's grave. they went to arlington cemetery where the king later date -- laid a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier. --y traveled by train to you new york where they briefly fair andhe world's were driven to hyde park. they had an informal dinner after which the king and the president stayed up late discussing the crisis in europe. apparently the president thought that war was inevitable while the king thought it might be averted. sadly, the president w

both british and americans called that an opportunistic strategy. the united states drawn into the war from isolationist view of the world had 3 goals, we wanted to win in europe, pivot defeat of japan and come home. now, that was why the united states favored crossing the english channel and crossing north western europe and into german and they called the strategy, the goal of the strategy was achieving direct military result which i how they contrast as the british strategy to fdr, suddenly promo -- prominently, the world view, politics was changing and adapting to how they saw the national security needs of the united states and post world war and they were begin to go -- beginning to accept and adjust to that so that by november, third goal coming home was going to get dropped and they embraced a long-term position of the united states as part of world security which is true for our day. going forward, the allies need today agree on a goal, they needed a strategy, they needed to concentration of force and commander. none of that had been agreed

yes, that is the british ambassador. and visited the capital, and then were the guests of honor in the state dining room. as it normally appeared. and as it was set for a state dinner in 1961. the best i could do. we have the menu. clam cocktail, river turtle, with cornbread, followed by cranberry sauce, peas, and buttered beets. these were followed by a simple salad and dessert courses, the nature of which history appears to be silent. the following day they sailed down the potomac on the presidential yacht sequoia to mount vernon. they did not visit washington's grave. rather, they went to arlington cemetery, where the king laid a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier. the royal couple traveled by train to new york, where they briefly visited the world's fair, the suppose it reason for their visit, and then were driven to hyde park. they had an informal dinner at the roosevelt house, after which the king and the president stayed up late discussing the crisis in europe. the president thought war was inevitable. the

to me if george soros took british citizenship and you can now buy entry into britain who knows then it will be all right i don't understand a bogus point about foreign tycoons only newspapers the times and sunday times and the sun by rupert murdoch two of those titles backed one didn't the times all the taxes are paid. in britain denouements taxes are a public company listed on stock exchange menace under all the taxes paid in britain where dishonest pays taxes sadly not hex if they were prepared to reduce the national debt by half ok why bring him into it at all corporate advertising budgets procter and gamble tens of billions samsung nine point nine nestle l'oreal these are the big advertisers multibillion dollar campaign to yourselves said it's bound to backfire we use of all of this money so why is it important that they will team out they revealed to they revealed he was bankrolling this new organization best for britain the whatever it's called how does he know what's best for britain he's not british he doesn't live here it's none of these place not his place and we're going

anyway, when all of this unravels, the british are pushed back to boston, and when the british, the ragged british group gets to charlestown, admiral graves has to take them across the water into boston. up to this time he has just kept out of the whole thing. it's like nothing is going on, and all of a sudden he starts writing orders. he gets involved. to show how uninvolved he was, the ferry between north of boston and charlestown was running the whole time. all that night. you know paul revere? you know who paul revere is. [laughing] paul revere could've taken the ferry. [laughing] this was, this this is a crazy, and all goes back to the king thinking, we can do this easily. and also dear old lord sandwich thinking this would be very easy, your majesty, just leave it to us. all right, i'm going to stop at this introduction to my book and answer questions. my wife had her hand up for quite some time. any questions? [inaudible] >> what? [iible] >> i'm sorry, we're out of microphones. look, c-span is marvelous. they are always prepared. they are terrific. you didn't even notice them, did y

up until now, in all the british papers that we've received, andl british papers that we've received, with my team, there is a request for the status quo, a request for continuity, which is somewhat paradoxical when the country took the decision to leave the european union. the european union therefore seems to want to keep all the benefits of the existing relationship whilst leaving our regulatory, and supervisory and implementation framework. when we tell our british counterparts that these benefits are not accessible outside the system created by the european union, that this is a result of their own decision, some parties in the united kingdom try to make is responsible for the consequences of that decision. let me say the following. we are not going to be intimidated by this form of blame game. the european union, the united kingdom has decided to leave the european union. the united kingdom has to accept the consequences, the united kingdom has to accept the consequences, and if we want to build a new relationship, there needs to be trust, but there also needs to be trust, but t

there is no british navy. there is a british army but it is a royal navy. it dates back to the english civil war, when the navy stayed loyal to the king, the army went to cromwell. it is the british army representing the people of britain, but the royal navy. i don't know what the excuse of the royal air force is. but the royal navy plays an important role and we need to give credit where credit is due. three things won this war. the british ability to hang in there from june of 1940 when france was defeated and they carried the war by themselves until june 1941 when hibbler ler stupidlyhitele invaded. we can't forget that. without the british, none of this happens. spilled itsred army blood on the steps of ukraine and russia. the americans lost 350,000, a terrible loss. .he russians lost 20 million let's not lose sight of that. the third thing is american industrial productivity. all three were essential. i will say this about the royal before the united states got into this, the key problem is not german battleships. but asmarck got to sea we know it neve

but british identity is robust in wales. 79% say they feel strongly british. strong among the young, in the generation born after the collapse of the great british industries that were once so strong in wales. coal linked south wales to yorkshire and nottinghamshire, fife and ayrshire, but the memory of that shared british enterprise is slipping away. now only 39% of the welsh say the jobs people do give them a sense of belonging. you've got a hut down there that was there for the rugby and the soccer... asked about political power, 8a% of the welsh say they have little or no influence on the uk government. 73% say the same of the welsh government. lydia king has spent much of her adult life running projects to improve her hometown. this bowls club at blaenau near ebbw vale is on land reclaimed from an old industrial site. what is there here for the children as they're growing up? 0h, there's... there's love. and that's about it. there was a fewjobs here in the valley, but there's nothing for kids now. they have to travel. all that's here is our heart, and it

war either until corporate media spending millions of dollars arguably persuaded them so how are british people persuaded to change their minds could a billionaire overturn brix it because something george soros infamous for breaking the bank of england is trying to break british democracy joining me is the consultant editor of the daily mail andrew pierce mail online is the first visit to the english language newspaper website in the world and thanks for going back on going underground just day ahead of our soros story donald trump saying he's going to impose twenty five percent e.u. steel tariffs or ten percent of elam in the i'm what it what did you make of that well thank god believing the he's never like the he does not like these huge organizations which he thinks are undemocratic he's dead right they are five and elected presidents the last time i looked and i suspect britain will be able to negotiate an opt out because we have that special relationship with the donald well let's go down to business i mean this is the ultimate conspiracy subject some might say george soros so what

in volgograd a far cry from the picture some british media outlets were pointing out of the world cup. and. some of the scary. thing around. i'm here at wembley stadium the home of english football now if you are thinking of visiting russia for the wild card a quick look at some of the u.k. newspaper headlines over the past few weeks and months would be enough to make you think twice. that put people off going to vote for me it was a put me off yet still function just why should all the like to volunteer off the one i meet in sos friends and his friends hoping that singled out the fight he will be using not russian fogg's try to go their own training camps apparently when it's all getting the. full don't break well when i got well look up bring it on bring the ultras yes bring on. shots come to this neighborhood in moscow and right now i'm going to add to a local football pitch where fans often get together for a kick around in the evening so let's get them to have a listen and hear what they have to say and his friends. singled out don't go for any go at least not russian flags try t

you mentioned the british ambassador.r wife said the british authorities were not helpful. she said at the time "i would have thought the uk would have clarity on this issue and say "yes, this is wrong," that you had been abducted and kept in prison like this." were they helpful? it was a bit of difficulty with my wife. she is under so much pressure and was demanding a lot. but for me, the sight of a british ambassadorjust by itself was a relief because at that time i was certain they would not take a drastic measure. i knew now the outside world knew where i was. so the british helped you? yeah, that was the beginning. and they were helping, because i had nothing, really. it was just solitary confinement. so they, i was ill a number of times, they demanded i be treated well a number of times and that i be seen by a doctor or a medical person. especially once i was out of the hands of the security and transferred to the federal prison, they did what they could. the nature of the ethiopian government, you know... what do y

it isn't just british that it might survivors who are convinced they find lies in old british political parties. in feb twenty fifth in an unusual debate takes place in the british parliament. which is to michael moore thank you mr speaker for over fifty years philip him either side been campaigning for justice particularly from the german manufacturers . know that over one hundred fifty m.p.'s of signed an open letter to the german chancellor would the prime minister add this to his busy agenda today so that we might get a decent and fair assessment for all concerned. i have on behalf of a constituent as he raised this issue not only through the european parliament but also with german authorities and i'll certainly reflect what the old gentleman says . more than one hundred fifty british m.p.'s from all political parties have signed a letter to the german chancellor. unlike germany britain does have a tradition of rebellion when dealing with that in mind the active ingredient in going together. the four hundred sixty six members of the little my trust and not just fighting for compens

at the as teaching british naval academy i emphasized the british role there, too. >> we are out of time. >> we are out of time. thank you very much. it.preciate [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> our nine week series 1968 america

british swimmers have won seven medals on the final day of the british para—swimming international meetcation 200m freestyle, with four—time world champion tully kearney claiming gold, paralympic champion jessica—jane applegate the silver, and louise fiddes the bronze. the only other british gold of the night went to thomas hamer, who successfully defended his 200m freestyle title. that's all the sport for now. police officers visited a house in surrey today where it is thought a hitman hired to kill the lover of former liberal leader jeremy thorpe is living. police had said andrew newton was dead, but he is now believed to be alive and using a different name. his apparent death was one of the reasons given to thorpe's former lover norman scott for dropping a conspiracy—to—murder investigation. duncan kennedy reports. this was the moment gwent police arrived at the house where andrew newton is believed to be living, a man they had previously thought was dead. the police knocked a number of times, then left without meeting him. i can't make any comments at the moment. they want to talk t

what was left unfolding in british media was the rise in terrorism arguably catalyzed by the british war on neighboring libya supported by u.k. prime minister theresa may but britain has other connections to the recent history of tunisia the north african nation only recently overthrew its u.s. back to the ship the spark well one lately credited was this man seen here on r t interviewing to his years post coup leader mohamed was yuki what do you say about the united states and its role once a leading human rights and. torture committee as president went on to talk about torture under his nato backed dictator previous answer and of course many people believe wiki leaks publication of classified u.s. cables detailing the crimes of washington's arab proxies helped to begin the arab spring but today it is not the people of tunisia being so tortured it is julian assange himself who still remains under arbitrary detention by tourism is government u.n. panel is pushing for the release of wiki leaks founder julian assange he has been claiming asylum and london the ecuadorian embassy has twen

it was overwhelming, the british compared to the americans. the british were professional soldiers.hey had been fighting in europe. american troops, three quarters war men who do not have any experience. betweenirst conflict american forces happened on december 23. jackson found out from gabriel jumped out of the plantation house and ran all the way back to new orleans to tell jackson the british it landed. when jackson hears this, he calls out his famous line "by the eternal, they shall not soil."n our it was a very confusing time. it is dark and a lot of the americans do not know each other as well as the british soldiers did. this is also one of the points where the cavalry and the choctaw american indians fighting out here really played a massively significant part. they used to be cover of darkness and their ability to move through the landscape to really cause some confusion with the british. for the americans, they were not able to push the british out. jackson ended up forced to fully richard reid -- fully were trait of the british re-think about attacking very quickly. casu

but british identity is robust in wales. 79% say they feel strongly british.elsh. britishness is least strong among the young, in the generation born after the collapse of the great british industries that were once so strong in wales. coal linked south wales to yorkshire and nottinghamshire, fife and ayrshire, but the memory of that shared british enterprise is slipping away. now only 39% of the welsh say the jobs people do give them a sense of belonging. asked about political power, 84% of the welsh said they have little or no influence on the uk government. 73% say the same of the welsh government. lydia king has spent much of her adult life running projects to improve her hometown. this bowls club near ebbw vale is on land reclaimed from an old industrial site. what is there here for the children as they are growing up? oh, there is love. and that's about it. there were a fewjobs here in the valley but these days, nothing for kids. they have to travel. all that's here is a heart and it does keep it going. but it works. it works. in scotland, there is a sim

thomas and yates with a british one—two in the overall stadings.st eight years with chris froome and bradley wiggins having won the race prior to winning the tour de france. the former wales and sunderland boss chris coleman is back in management — at chinese side, hebei china fortune. coleman left sunderland at the end of the season after they were relegated from the championship. he replaces manuel pellegrini — who left the chinese super league club to join west ham united. world cup favourites brazil warmed up for the tournament with a 3—nil win against austria. neymar was making his first start since february but it didn't show as he doubled brazil's lead midway through the second half. there were also goals for gabriel jesus and phillipe countinho. the bids from morocco and the joint effort from the united states, canada and mexico to host the 2026 world cup have both been ratified by fifa. it was widely expected — but it's the next step ahead of the fifa congress on wednesday. it was a british one—two at the leeds round of the world triathlon

it isn't just british that it might survivors who are convinced they find allies in all british political parties. in feb twenty fifth in an unusual debate takes place in the british parliament. for which mr michael moore thank you mr speaker for over fifty years the little miters have been campaigning for justice particularly from the german manufacturers. know that over one hundred fifty m.p.'s of signed an open letter to the german chancellor would the prime minister add this to his busy agenda today so that we might get a decent and fair settlement for all concerned. i have on behalf of a constituent as he raised this issue not only through the european parliament but also with german authorities and i'll certainly reflect what the old gentleman says . more than one hundred fifty british m.p.'s from all political parties have signed a letter to the german chancellor. unlike germany britain does have a tradition of rebellion when dealing with that in mind the active ingredient of going together. the four hundred sixty six members of the little my trust and not just fighting for compens

let's not patronise the british people. i'm not...e of understanding what this deal entails. oh, really? there are people, remainers like you, who say we got into trouble with a simple yes or no because you were trying to reduce to a simple answer something that was highly complex. the big difference is, and in many respects we are having the debate should have had a long time ago, but the big difference is you have two fixed propositions. the truth of the matter is, when this kicked off, we were speculating, it was hypothetical, you had people like the british foreign secretary, borisjohnson, saying because the french want to sell us brie, the germans, cars, and the italians, prosecco, they'll give us everything we want and have the benefits of the single market. we now know the facts. and you have the actual fixed proposition of what out looks like, we didn't know, and we know what being a member of the european union looks like. that is the big difference. suppose that deal is that it clear is the best deal that the house of common

officers. -- commander were british officers. and he was one who respected them and respected their skills and experiences enough to rely on their advice. and i think that was very, very important. it built that team that eisenhower wanted. the sense that we will work together as a team, the football analogy comes back. >> hi, i am a history teacher here in virginia beach. prof. dickson: god bless you. >> thank you. i was wondering if you could talk a little bit about dwight eisenhower's reluctance to use nuclear weapons during world war ii? could that have been shaped by his world war i and world war ii experiences? being the commander? i know that he was later -- it was released that classified information that macarthur was not in favor of did -- using nuclear weapons either. i was wondering if you talk -- if you could talk about his position and stands in regards to nuclear weapons and how his earlier asked areas with warfare -- experiences with warfare might have shapes that? prof. dickson: in europe at least, nuclear weapon

and he organized, they were going after the british troops who were retreating and they hit a convoy of them and grabbed two people who were-- they took the convoy and these guys were-- they carried scalping knives and they used them. and they grabbed two slaves named dinah mattis, a british slave, and her daughter and got together with his thugs, with his rangers and he said what do we do? he side it's against the sight of god to hold hostages, to hold slaves. and so he wrote out the first emancipation proclamation in what i think was in america, to free them. and that's -- that's still down, i think, in bennington. the original thing. so he was a good character. another one i liked was -- sorry. sorry. was lord jermaine and i don't know if you know who-- lord jermaine was a lord who ran the british troops in america and he was roundly loathed because he had been a cavalryman and he was on an operation leading the cavalry and againsted french. and he didn't like the german commanders and refused to release them and as a result the french got away. the king wanted him taken out and s

to the british side. we don't have access to russian citizens. rethink what we have seen this is only t.v. the interview i mean the interview i'm quite sure that the british side cannot stand on this position. and the sli so one day we will get the access to the russian citizens. the sooner the better we will continue the political pressure. as we understand. more british allies from the west and look asking to preserve the evidence. so some time ago the few months when they made a joint statement in support of the british position so they believe britain on their words today it's time to know. explain you know what are the evidence and the first signs of that kind of mood in germany but i'm quite sure the other countries under the pressure of the public opinion in their countries have to do the see. the way we talk to each other on the internet is elevated way beyond just using woods now we deploy modi's gifts and of course means which borrowed heavily from movies and t.v. shows but now they're under threat from the e.u.'s legal oversea is who a

i mean just very quickly when we talk about you know british and the u.s. sizing with saudi arabia because of the fear and animosity that i have to would see iran we need to be very careful here to understand that yemen is a proxy only in the eyes of britain and the u.s. because they released no iranian influence in yemen represent your graphically advantage and it's sitting on very important waterways needed to really and of course because of all routes which is why britain and the u.s. all are interested in yemen in the first place it has nothing to do with the fact that you want to have the na in yemen but rather because of the geography and where yemenis is situated in relation to iran and the rest of the gulf countries and i think it's an important point because we need to stop this narrative that iran you know has an interest in trying to promote unrest in yemen that's not the case if anything iran needs stability in the region to be able to itself you know you know stabilize its own borders and everything else like goes with it i think that's intense

the vote of the british people! the shenanigans go unnoticed in the european union. presidentjuncker, have there been any new proposals from the uk on brexit this week? discussing it, yes, not in the same way. soon david davis and then the prime minister will be back in brussels — will the government still be finger—pointing, or playing nice as friends? the boss of tsb has admitted that fraudsters targeted thousands of people's bank accounts in the aftermath of an it meltdown in april. paul pester told mps that the bank had been "overwhelmed" by what he called an "unprecedented attack by organised crime" after a botched systems upgrade. it resulted in money being taken illegally out of 1,300 accounts. simon gompertz reports. the sorry saga of the systems upgrade which left tsb on its knees started six weeks ago, yet customers like photographer paul clark say they're still suffering. the effect has been enormous, a huge amount of mental stress, night and day. not only was paul shut out of his account, it was then rai

man in a british colony? and charles ball looked at him and said, no. i am a free man. i have all the land to work that i can. that's not exactly right. charles ball wasn't a free man. he was a fugitive slave. but yet he had crafted an identity, a story about himself that he was sticking to. well, little more than a year later charles ball will choose to join the american navy. he joins and fights as a part of joshua barney's gun boat flotilla in the chesapeake. he will be part of the marines that travel to washington, d.c., and then they pull a field gun, a six-pound field piece they pull it out and the sailors and marines that put the guns on the high point to the west of the bridge crossing the eastern anacostia, and when the british crossed that bridge, it's those cannon thanks that are constantly inflating -- con cannons that are constantly inflating british lines. and those it's those canners and sailors and marines that provide the only real defense there. the sailors and marines continue fighting unti

is yet to comment on the publication that was made by the british government today . i mean by the global chemical weapons watchdog granted in south part assign blame for chemical attacks in syria has been criticized by russia the foreign ministry spokeswoman said they had only made a decision under pressure from london isn't that if british come when you point out that you do political money fuel ations that's exactly how we can characterize it and as we learnt direct bribery of a string of delegations and open blackmail by the u.k. and other governments they sold their odious project decision their grants and characteristic powers to the o.p.c. w two thirds of the nations that voted in this in this vote they voted to change the way in which the u.p.c. w. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons works whereas before before now it was a network of unbiased and neutral experts and labs what they did was. that incident happened they got samples they measured the samples they tested the samples and they said what's up and what substance was used they esta

the british, of course, did not fall into this together. it took them years to come to an acceptance that this was the best way to fight, as a coalition, a united coalition, was the best way to fight. and it continued back and forth, all the way through 1944. especially with montgomery as the 21st army group commander. montgomery continually pressed against eisenhower's strategy of united front. the united front strategy sacrificed a lot of tactical opportunities and some operational opportunities for unity. for eisenhower, unity of command was everything, and keeping the coalition, british, americans, canadians together in one united front, combined with the french, that the allies would move forward together and they would cross the rhine and moved to the heart of germany, but they would do it together. not any one individual nation would go any faster, or farther than the other. and montgomery chafed at this. he disliked it, but eisenhower continuously existed that i will let certain advantages go by the wayside to maintain the larger un

i began doing research in england in england and there were some documents in the british library. then i came here and found dartmouth has a whole floor and subbasement, nothing but books about the american revolution and they are always happy because they don't have room to store them, i have 50 books at home. and i began, went over to the library and in chicago i found more material and began putting it together and found i had a larger book than i thought i was going to write. i want to mention the characters that i think are fascinating as i get into it that i sort of got intrigued by. the book is about three green mountain boys would anybody not know what the green mountain boys are? they went around, ethan allen hated new york. his war was really against new york and he also set up the onion river company for i have right here. to get land and the land company which leveraged property they didn't buy to have land in new york said they were not entitled. as we get into this i will fill you a couple things that i really like here. in no particular order but i got fascinated. j

we can't go down this road of patronising british voters.hat you would go and... what would happen if britain were to crash out of the eu? i don't think anybody would like to see that happen. but it could happen. in the end, if the british public determined that we should accept whatever deal the prime minister comes back with, notwithstanding whatever net negative impact there might be, we will leave the european union. going back to the question, as i said, my preferred question would be leave with the deal, or remain. but remain is not an option because britain is floating the brexit. the government says there is no deal, it would crash out... it can't do that. i will tell you why. parliament has secured for itself a meaningful vote on the way we withdraw which covers all aspects. but they could suspend... they would not be able to crash the uk out. the government is not able to legislatively, at least, crash out with parliament agreeing in the affirmative agreeing to leave without a deal. so this is the big difference. when i speak to eu

i call myself british, british—indian, and they are like, "but you're english, british—indian, and they born here," and i am like, "i don't know whether i'd call myself english." i'd call myself british—indian, i think. it's a very diverse, multicultural melting pot of communities that all come together, so you can be any country, if you like, in london. together, so you can be any country, being english, unlike being british, is seen as an exclusive identity, an honour bestowed only upon those eligible. that is its weakness and its strength. mark easton, bbc news, england. and its strength. all this week, we'll be looking at questions of englishness, as well as identity across the uk. at questions of englishness, to see what those who live near you think, go to bbc. co. uk/englishquestion and type in your postcode. with all the sport, here's 0llie foster at the bbc sport centre. here's 0llie foster england's cricketers beat pakistan by an innings and 55 runs at headingley, to draw their match series. their first test victory in nine months was wrapped up with two days to spare. months

i want to deliver brexit for the british people.e want and i'm getting on and doing it. how many times can we get to this position, where you have to have these clashes with those on your own side? at every stage in these negotiations, we've seen people casting doubt on whether or not we could achieve what we want to achieve. we're now moving on to finalise those withdrawal issues and also to move on to discuss our future relationship. mrjohnson also described the treasury as "the heart of remain." he and the chancellor don't see eye to eye on brexit, and on a visit to berlin today, philip hammond urged cooperation with brussels. my experience has been that a collaborative approach is generally more productive than a confrontational approach, and certainly my advice to my colleagues is that the way to address the challenges that there undoubtedly are of reaching a good brexit solution is to engage with our european partners. and brussels certainly does have concerns. the latest wrangle is over a so—called backstop or fallback plan f

british conservative party or, dare i say it, you ukip.my. we know from the government's own research that the areas that stand to be hit ha rd est, that the areas that stand to be hit hardest, to be hit hardest from us leaving the single market and custom unions are the labour areas we represent. you mentioned immigration and the difficulty of it in many ways. at the former conservative party leader iain duncan smith has spoken about his question of immigration and migration. and being pa rt immigration and migration. and being part of the eu, i quote, at present a white remaining jobseeker faces far fewer obstacles to come to britain then an indian engineer or brazilian dentist. by bricks at —— however brexit means venice all—round. so is there clearly a post—brexit migration policy could let more brown and black people into the uk? at present question mark it is not about race? that is a false prospectus being put forward by iain duncan smith as the conservatives have a policy of reducing migration to the tens of thousands. that is a ch