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  2. British Empire - Wikipedia

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    The East India Company drove the expansion of the British Empire in Asia. The company's army had first joined forces with the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War, and the two continued to co-operate in arenas outside India: the eviction of the French from Egypt (1799), [107] the capture of Java from the Netherlands (1811), the acquisition of ...

  3. Military history of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The military history of the United Kingdom covers the period from the creation of the united Kingdom of Great Britain, with the political union of England and Scotland in 1707, [1] to the present day. From the 18th century onwards, with the expansion of the British Empire and the country's industrial strength, the British military became one of ...

  4. British colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The British colonization of the Americas is the history of establishment of control, settlement, and colonization of the continents of the Americas by England, Scotland, and, after 1707, Great Britain. Colonization efforts began in the late 16th century with failed attempts by England to establish permanent colonies in the North.

  5. Historiography of the British Empire - Wikipedia

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    The major multi-volume multi-author coverage of the history of the British Empire is the Oxford History of the British Empire (1998–2001), five-volume set, plus a companion series. [277] Douglas Peers says the series demonstrates that, "As a field of historical inquiry, imperial history is clearly experiencing a renaissance." [278]

  6. First Opium War - Wikipedia

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    East India Company. The First Opium War (Chinese : 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin : Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842.

  7. Treaty of Lahore - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Lahore of 9 March 1846 was a peace-treaty marking the end of the First Anglo-Sikh War.The treaty was concluded, for the British, by the Governor-General Sir Henry Hardinge and two officers of the East India Company and, for the Sikhs, by the seven-year-old Maharaja Duleep Singh and seven members of Hazara, the territory to the south of the river Sutlej and the forts and territory ...

  8. Military history of Britain - Wikipedia

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    Military history of England: the military history of the nations and tribes that inhabited or occupied the lands that make up England and Wales, before the creation of the United Kingdom under the Act of Union in 1707. Military history of Scotland: for the military history of Scotland since prehistoric times to today. Military history of the ...

  9. Ten Year Rule - Wikipedia

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    Ten Year Rule. The Ten Year Rule was a British government guideline, first adopted in August 1919, that the armed forces should draft their estimates "on the assumption that the British Empire would not be engaged in any great war during the next ten years". [1]

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