The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...

off the coast of Spain. The battle had massive repercussions for Napoleon's France and the future of the British Empire.

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. “The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the ...

As a result, most pirates avoided attacking British Navy ships ... finished leeskarte was a complete map of the Irish coastline along with four additional detailed charts, including an extremely ...

how after the horrendous shock of the 1857 "Mutiny" the British state took over and turned this supremacy into the Raj, the jewel in the crown of the greatest empire the world had ever seen ...