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| | British Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The British Empire was, at one time, the foremost global power, and the most extensive empire in the history of the world. | | | The Americas in particular (especially in Argentina and the United States) were seen as being well under the informal British trade empire due to Britain's enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine keeping other European nations from establishing formal rule in the area. | | | Britain's limitations were exposed to a humiliating degree by the Suez Crisis of 1956 in which the United States opposed British, French and Israeli intervention in Egypt, seeing it as a doomed adventure likely to jeopardise American interests in the Middle East. |
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| | British Empire - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about British Empire |
| | Moreover, he had a love affair of large and unusual dimensions and irregular circumstances and the still largely decorous British public learnt with reluctance and alarm that a sympathetic treatment of this affair was inseparable from the exclusive acquisition of the priceless secret of aerial stability by the British Empire. | | | In 1882 Egypt came under British occupation, and shortly after this British and Egyptian troops were jointly involved in Sudan, to the south. | | | This led to British involvement in Egypt, a country supposedly under Turkish suzerainty, but in fact largely independent. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/British%20Empire
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| | British Empire page |
| | Pakistan has been a member, and a non-member and is at present in, despite being a dictatorship. | | | The Indian empire had to be supplied by sea. | | | Moreover, in Britain itself there were always people opposed to the empire, even as it was being established. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/mac/egmatthews/worldinfo/europe/empire.html
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| | Neo-British Empire of the Crown - 500 Year Chronology |
| | Note on the widespread "Catholic Traditionalist" conspiracy theory that the Vatican turn-around under Pope John and Pope Paul was the result of a Jewish/Masonic (or British) coup at the top of the Vatican. | | | British scramble to establish a viable 3-Bloc world in the face of an overwhelming post WWII, U.S.-Vatican anti-Communist alliance. | | | For instance, although Jewish pressure during Vatican II, wrung-out a condemnation of anti-Semitism, the Church refused to endorse Israel or recant on the crucial doctrine of Jewish Deicide. |
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http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/update03.htm
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| | British Irsralism-Justification for an Empire |
| | In this way they were able to follow them north and west, across the plains of Europe to Scandinavia and the British Isles where, after the completion of the 2520 years of punishment, they would finally rise to claim their inheritance: the world. | | | The historical King Arthur is believed to have organized the British defense which was able to keep Cerdic from gaining a decisive victory for thirteen years. | | | A trend which had been manifest since the 1901 death of Queen Yictoria was finally becoming dominant: the British Empire was in decline. |
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http://www.revneal.org/Writings/british.htm
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| | BBC NEWS Education 'Teach more about British Empire' |
| | For some 11 to 14-year-olds the topic could be included in a unit covering British history from 1750 to 1900. | | | The Ofsted report on the teaching of history in 2002/2003 also found that some schools were devoting too much time to teaching about Nazi Germany and other subjects. | | | Pupils should know about the Empire and that it has been interpreted by historians and others in different ways |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3884087.stm
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| | The National Archives Learning Curve British Empire Rise of the British Empire India Background |
| | However, British leaders were very effective in choosing which princes they allied with, and which ones they fought. | | | This website has an Indian Sourcebook with a very difficult but interesting collection of documents on the history of India from ancient times to the present | | | There is a lot of debate about how the British were able to gain the power and influence they did, because many of the Indian states were extremely well organised and powerful. |
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http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/empire/g1/cs3/background.htm
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| | English and British Empire, Possessions c.1497-1800 |
| | Britain apparently held the island from 1762 to 1763, from 1781 to 1783, in 1794, and from 1796 onwards. | | | The British captured a nearby island and, in the 1750s, occupied the areas in Senegal that had been settled by the French and were being run by the French East India Company. | | | Held by France in 1664, from 1666 to 1667, and in 1782. |
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http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/britem.html
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| | BBC - History - Empire |
| | Review how the British Empire assumed such global predominance, and the factors which led to its decline. | | | Kenneth Morgan argues whether the expansion of the British Empire was the desire for trade or the thirst for conquest. | | | Marika Sherwood reviews the contributions made by African, Caribbean and Indian troops in the conflict of World War Two. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/state/empire
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| | British Empire - Year 9 - SchoolHistory.co.uk |
| | Pupils can find out information about different countries that were once members. | | | The text in the linked articles will require further explanation. | | | It explains why the sun never set on the British Empire, and then provides a brief summary of the Empire up to the present day. |
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http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/year9links/empire9.html
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| | "Empire" by Niall Ferguson Salon.com |
| | To the British, as to people in the rest of the world, imperialism's golden age is now considered a stain on human history, an era of slavery and racism and the plunder of native lands and peoples. | | | Much of "Empire" is solid historical writing, extensively researched and analytical. | | | Ferguson is an economist and historian at New York University and Oxford, and his latest book is "Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power," a comprehensive history of how the British came to rule the world. |
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http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2003/04/17/ferguson/index_np.html
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| | British Empire |
| | This state of affairs, however, was complex and far from stable. | | | Today, any affinities which remain between former portions of the Empire are primarily linguistic or cultural rather than political. | | | The mercantilists advocated in theory, and sought in practice, trade monopolies which would insure that Britain's exports would exceed its imports. |
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http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/Empire.html
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| | Despite the fact that the empire had never been larger--encompassing over one-quarter of the land on Earth, and with possessions on every continent--it was obvious that a crisis was in the making. | | | It is a family party, to which every member of the Empire is invited, and at which every part of the Empire is represented. | | | The sun had not set on the British Empire in 1924. |
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http://members.lycos.co.uk/bee1924/index2.html
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| | British Empire: Armed Forces |
| | The tentacles of the military spread throughout the empire and beyond, the armed forces were not only the conquerors and defenders of the empire but also provided the garrisons that policed the vast expanses of territory and enabled communication over the vast distances involved. | | | It is interesting to note that some of the fiercest resistors to the British went on to become the staunchest allies and defenders of her empire; Highlanders, Sikhs and Gurkhas are perhaps the best examples of this phenomena. | | | This section provides information on the soldiers, sailors and airman who gained, maintained and then lost an empire. |
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http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/forces.htm
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| | The British Empire: An Internet Gateway by Dr. Jane Samson |
| | The British Council history website - explains what the British Council was designed to do, and describes its history between the 1930s and the present (numerous historians discuss and debate its history) | | | The Archives Hub, a gateway to archive collections held in UK universities and colleges, including material on imperial history. | | | "British Empire Studies" a British Library web site with extensive links to: Museums Libraries Archives; Institutes, Universities, Conferences, Journals, Bibliographies, Mailing Lists, and more. |
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http://www.ualberta.ca/~janes/EMPIRE.html
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| | Victorian History -- The British Empire, an Overview |
| | Why did the British Empire expand so rapidly between 1870 and 1900? | | | The Victorian Web is a project funded by the University Scholars Program, National University of Singapore | | | Science and Empire in Victorian Ireland: The Evidence of British Association Meetings in Ireland |
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http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/empireov.html
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| | The British Empire |
| | Undoubtedly the largest empire the world has ever seen. | | | It was true that the sun never set on the British Empire. | | | These pages will give an outline, with dates of acquisition and independence, of the countries and territories that formed... |
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http://freespace.virgin.net/andrew.randall1/britempire.htm
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| | British Empire |
| | Gold Coast and Gambia were granted arms in 1957 and 1964 respectively, in preparation for independence, and Sierra Leone's arms were replaced by a new design in 1960 just before independence. | | | List of Former British Dominions, Colonies, Protectorates, Protected and Associated States, Mandated and Trust Territories | | | Dominions, Colonies, Protectorates, Protected and Associated States, Mandated and Trust Territories |
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