Bronson (film) Bronson (film) Bronson is a 2008 British biographical crime drama film co-written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Tom Hardy as Michael Peterson, known from 1987 as Charles Bronson. The film follows the life of this notorious prisoner, known for violent attacks against other prisoners, guards, and governors in prison; protests, armed robbery, and art. He was renamed Charles Bronson by his fight promoter, for his bare-knuckle fighting years. Born into a respectable middle-class family, Peterson became known as one of the United Kingdom's most dangerous prisoners. Because of his violence, Bronson was repeatedly put into isolation or
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