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| - The British talk funny.
- British things are things from the United Kingdom or from Britain, which is part of the United Kingdom. It's rather confusing...but it's British, so what can you expect?
- The British are one of 18 nations in vanilla Rise of Nations. They have the Power of Empire.
- The British were a mysterious race of droid engineers whose homeworld was unknown. The stiff-upper-lipped creatures designed and built components for the IT-O Interrogator droids that tortured Princess Leia and were also heavily involved in the development of the TARDIS. Jean-Luc Picard was a British, but pretended to be a .
- 20th century British Royal Air Force pilots invented the fictional monsters called Gremlins. (ENT: "Dead Stop") In 2364, Data started to report the colors of the flags of Germany and Italy but was stopped by Captain Picard when he started with British. (TNG: "The Last Outpost" ) One of the headlines in a newspaper Picard was reading while in a Dixon Hill holoprogram stated "Roosevelt presses Congress for British aid." (TNG: "The Big Goodbye" ) According to the script of a deleted scene from ENT: "The Expanse", Becky was speaking with a British accent.
- British is the term used in TripleA xml code for the United Kingdom. Image:British large.png
- British people, or Britons, are the native inhabitants of the British Isles, of Great Britain, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, and some of the British overseas territories. In a historical context, the word is used to refer to the ancient Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain south of the Forth. Contemporary Britons are descended mainly from the varied ethnic stocks that settled there before the 11th century. The pre-Celtic, Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse influences were blended in Britain under the Normans, Scandinavian Vikings who had lived in Northern France.
- British British people (also referred to as Britons, informally as Brits, or archaically as Britishers) are citizens or natives of the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies, British Overseas Territories, and their descendants. British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, British people refers to the ancient Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain south of the Forth.
- Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts introduced the British faction as the new Allied force. Along with the Americans, they invade Europe on and after D-Day 1944, to liberate it from the Nazi occupation. The British Army featured in the game represents an amalgamation of military forces from the various nations collectively referred to as the "Commonwealth". It includes soldiers of the English, Australian, Scottish and Canadian nationalities, working together under a unified command structure. (Other Commonwealth forces included New Zealand, India and South Africa, among others).
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