Charles Bronson (prisoner) Reggie Kray. He changed his name from Michael Peterson to Charles Bronson in 1987 on the advice of his fight promoter, Paul Edmonds, despite never having seen a film starring the American actor Charles Bronson. He offered to fight Lenny McLean, but was refused. He also said that he killed a rottweiler with his bare hands in a £10,000 underground fight. Later he said that this was "not something I'm proud of because I love animals." To the surprise of his girlfriend Alison, on New Year's Day 1988 he robbed a jewellery shop, kept a ring for her, and sold
Opposition to the War of 1812 in Britain the U.S. alone made up more than half the cotton imports to Britain in the years leading up to the War of 1812. British opposition coalesced around the Orders in Council. Part of the larger maritime war with France, the Orders were intended to choke off French trade with the rest of world. The policy especially affected the neutral United States, which claimed it should be able to trade with both nations, since it was a neutral party in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte. While many in Britain saw the opposition to impressment as nothing more than whining, more sectors