Three years ago, in the disorder that followed the Suez invasion fiasco, Great Britain was faced with such a run on the pound sterling that it asked for and got $500 million in credit from the ...

Great Britain won eight medals on the track to finish fourth in the track medal tables, behind the Netherlands who won three golds. The Paralympic cycling team won 22 medals, including nine gold.

Great Britain was not alone in this line of thinking. The French, Spanish, and Portuguese competed with the British for colonies under the belief that no great nation could exist and be self ...