Britain, Battle

Adour in 1813, but it was at the battle of Leipzig in 1813 that it achieved its greatest renown. It also rendered good service at Waterloo in 1815 and during the War of 1812 between the US and Gt Britain... 

January 1934 by Hankey and Fisher about the pocket battleships, Chatfield replied that the French (who had laid down the first of two battle-cruisers in 1932) could look after them. He added that Britain s three battle-cruisers could do so too, but ultimately the Royal Navy might not possess any ships of that type as the design of their replacements would depend upon what the Japanese replaced their battlecruisers with. No attempt was made to build larger cruisers to cope with the pocket battleships. Indeed, the Admiralty proposed at the second London naval conference to reduce the maximum size of cruisers, from the 10,000 tons allowed under the Washington treaty to 8,000 tons, to make it possible to build at less cost the number believed to be required to protect British trade. ... 

Air Ministry, The Rise and Fall of the German Air Force (London Public Record Office, 2001), pp. 79-95 T. C.G. James, The Battle of Britain, ed. Sebastian Cox (London Frank Cass, 2000) Murray, Lujtwajfe pp. 43-59. 

August, at the suggestion of the GIGS, Dill, the War Cabinet agreed to send 154 infantry tanks - about half the total available - to Egypt, although the outcome of the Battle of Britain was uncertain. 

Addison, Paul, and Jeremy Crang (eds.). The Burning Blue A New History of the Battle of Britain, London Pimlico, 2000. 

Airbandit C3I and strategic air defence during the first Battle of Britain, 1915-18 , in Dockrill and French (eds.). Strategy and Intelligence (1996), pp. 23-66. 

James, T. C. G., The Battle of Britain, ed. Sebastian Cox, London Frank Cass, 2000. 

Wood, Derek, and Derek Dempster, The Narrow Margin The Battle of Britain and the Rise of Air Power 1930-1940, London Hutchinson, 1961. 

To comprehend the value of fundamental scientific work one must look back and weave the strands together. Sometimes the threads are very evident. For example, the battle of Britain was won in considerable part by the use of planes which were products of combustion research. The interrelationships of supercharging, compression, and fuel properties and composition in the reciprocating engine had been partially explored at that time. The Germans seemed to apply these principles but slowly at first. The British put this knowledge to work immediately as did the petroleum industry in the United States in those frantic days of producing tremendous quantities of fuel. 

The importance of the isomerization reaction for the production of high-performance fuels was demonstrated during World War II, in the Battle of Britain, when British Spitfires and Hurricanes, using American 100 octane fuel, were able to out-perform German Messerschmidt 109s, that used lower standard and synthetic fuels with an octane rating of only 87.1 Indeed, the first commercial plant to produce aviation fuel was built by... 

To combat battle fatigue during World War II, nearly 200 million amphetamine tablets are issued to American soldiers stationed in Great Britain during the war. 

Those effects led to another use of amphetamines during World War II. Soldiers from America, Britain, Japan, and Germany took amphetamines to combat the weariness of battle fatigue. 

Meanwhile, the plants making both phosgene and mustard gas went into overdrive. In response to Churchill s constant demands, the output of gas increased markedly. Once manufactured, the gas was stored in underground mines in North Wales. The statistics available show a steady increase and indeed by the middle of 1944 Britain had stockpiled more than five million gas-carrying shells and bombs. In the event, of course, the phosgene and mustard gas were never needed. The RAF stopped the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain and in October 1940 Hitler called off Operation Sealion (the invasion of Britain) and turned his attention to Soviet Russia. 

Trained at Toynbee s Oxford, Aldous Huxley was one of the initiates in the "Children of the Sun," a dionysian cult comprised of the children of Britain s Round Table elite. (4) Among the other initiates were T.S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Sir Oswald Moseley, and D. H. Lawrence, Huxley s homosexual lover. It was Huxley, furthermore, who would launch the legal battle in the 1950s to have Lawrence s pornographic novel Lady Chatterley s Lover allowed into the United States on the ground that it was a misunderstood "work of art." (5)... 

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