British soldiers

In 1855, British soldiers in Nova Scotia decided to try a form of field hockey on the frozen lakes and ponds, using a puck i lead of a ball.

Two British soldiers at a base in Antrim took delivery of a last pizza before deploying to Afghanistan and were mown down in the street.

The first person who was hit when the British soldiers began firing was an African American sailor named Crispus Attucks.

Viking vehicles are made of reinforced steel and have been credited with saving the lives of many British soldiers in Afghanistan.

He was on the roof of the checkpoint when he opened fire on the British soldiers.

The second day he had a narrow escape when he ran into a patrol of British soldiers.

Five British soldiers in Helmand province were killed by an Afghan policeman, whom a British military spokesman said "went rogue" .

During the Revolutionary War with England, however, Americans slightly rewrote the words to make fun of the British soldiers.

As those British soldiers walked along, they legs were still high with a sense of pride and they also sounded the bugles .

From the observation slit he has shot a large number of British soldiers when he finally runs out of ammunition.

It is reported that Arab-Israeli war since the beginning date, 374 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

The Iranians denied that the British soldiers were subjected to inhuman treatment.

The change in tactics was revealed as the Ministry of Defence announced that two more British soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan.

At 4 AM the next morning, a dozen British soldiers showed up and dug up the entire garden, but didn't find any guns.

The second day he ran into a patrol of British soldiers who eyed him and his wagon with suspicion.

At Paulus Hook, New Jersey, he increased his renown by taking 400 British soldiers prisoner with the loss of only one of his cavalry men.

British forces have been redeployed to other parts of Helmand Province from Sangin, where over 200 British soldiers died.

New allegations that British soldiers tortured and sexually abused Iraqi civilians are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence.

A repatriation cortege carrying seven fallen British soldiers passes through the town of Wootton Bassett, England.

During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale records the mortality rates of British soldiers in field hospitals.

More than two seasons of inconclusive fighting, and the death of more than 100 British soldiers, have failed to secure southern Afghanistan.

When British soldiers capture a place they start checking all the houses and arrest the civilians without any reason.

BBC News with Aleem MaqboolIn Afghanistan, six more British soldiers have been killed in the latest fighting in Helmand Province.

More than 100 British soldiers have died this year in Afghanistan. That is the most since the lengthy deployment began back in 2001.

The number of British soldiers killed stands at 179, hundreds more have been maimed.

Washington's plan was to cross under cover of darkness on Christmas night and attack the 2000 to 3000 British soldiers in Trenton.

Five British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan this month, following on from the record 22 fatalities in July.

In mainly Shia Basra, most of the insurgency is aimed at British soldiers rather than Iraqis.

These days British soldiers are again dying in Afghanistan, along with Americans, Canadians and many others.

Also on Tuesday, insurgents ambushed a NATO patrol in the same province and killed three British soldiers.

Occupying British soldiers in the 12th century bastardised the pronunciation and it eventually came out "whisky" .

The six British soldiers killed in Helmand over the past three months were victims of roadside bombs.

Giant unmanned air ships could soon provide cover for British soldiers in Afghanistan.

Thousands of British soldiers stood deep in the water.

Some 206 British soldiers have been killed in the country since the invasion in 2001.

It is known that five British soldiers were killed by a bomb while on foot patrol in the Sangin valley.

"British soldiers are not dying simply to provide an electoral opportunity for Afghans, " he told BBC1's Politics Show.

Actors dress up like Americans and British soldiers and act out fighting.

The number of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan reached 250 today, according to the Ministry of Defence.

July 26, 2009: British soldiers cover themselves from dust as a helicopter lands at the Malgeer village in Helmand province.

Nine British soldiers have died in the operation dubbed Panther's Claw.

The TV play is about a group of British soldiers who fought in Africa in the Second World War.

As soon as we land, British soldiers bring the first wounded child on board. Then a second stretcher appears.

JAMAICAN nurse, Mary Seacole, cared for British soldiers during the Crimean war in the 1850s.

Female British soldiers - as well as male soldiers - are alleged to have taken part in the abuse.

It's what led a rag-tag militia to face British soldiers at Lexington and Concord.

A total of 171 British soldiers have died in Afghanistan since 2001.

The Thiepval Memorial on the Somme, designed by Edwin Lutyens, bears the names of 72, 000 fallen British soldiers from the 1914-18 war.

How many British soldiers in this country?

Standing to attention: A line of little boys dressed as British soldiers seem overjoyed to be inspected by the Royal couple