William Kelso says Virginia is where the British Empire began... this was the first colony in the British Empire.

British assurances to the Polish led the British Empire to declare war on Germany.

The Union of South Africa was founded as a dominion of the British Empire.

Crystal was awarded the OBE in 1995 and became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000.

The Trucial States were under the control of the British Empire until 1971.

This was precisely what the British empire builders had wanted to prevent.

The system came into official use across the British Empire.

After the war ended he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire for service to law reform and legal education (1988).

The US was born in a citizens revolt against British imperial power.

First opened for the British Empire Exhibition in 1923, the stadium was originally known as the Empire Stadium.

Slavery was abolished in the British Empire on 1 August 1834.

In 1913 the office opened as the Universities Bureau of the British Empire.

Thus an ever increasing role in Egyptian affairs was mandated for the British Empire.

The poem points out the perceived pointlessness of World War I, but also the loss of faith in the British Empire and Western ideals.

Afterwards Canadian patriots began focusing on self government and political reform within the British Empire.

A little more than 60 years ago, India remained the crown jewel of the British Empire.

With the launch of in 1906, the British Empire expanded on its significant advantage over its German rival.

The Eighth Army was outflanked on the coast and British Empire cavalry moved north through the gap created.

Early British Empire The British Empire expanded in this time to include colonies, protectorates, and Dominions throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australasia.

Indeed, the very foundation of Iraq was based on victors justice the British Empire, having vanquished the Ottomans, made the Sunni Arabs overlords in a country in which they were a minority.

By 1850, the Ottoman Empire was deeply in debt and relied exclusively on British and French loans as a means of support.

But this Hindu tradition, along with Islamic law, was supplanted by the common law when India became part of the British Empire.

Honours In 1994, Richards was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to cricket.

In a section of the report classified as secret, he advised that the interests of the British Empire and Japan would inevitably clash.

By 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one fifth of the world's population at the time.

History The Sovereign Base Areas were created in 1960 by the Treaty of Establishment, when Cyprus achieved independence from the British Empire.

Sir John Young Jackie Stewart, OBE (born 11 June 1939) is a British former Formula One racing driver from Scotland.

Due to the expansion of English into a world language during the British Empire, literature is now written in English across the world.

Although the Royal Navy is widely regarded as having been vital for the rise of the British Empire, and British dominance of the world, the British Army played an important role in the colonisation of India and other regions.

Ottoman rule ended with World War I, and Iraq came to be administered by the British Empire as Mandatory Iraq until the establishment of the Kingdom of Iraq in 1933.

James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born 11 June 1959), known professionally as Hugh Laurie (), is an English actor, writer, director, musician and comedian.

India s borders were defined by British imperial administrators in 1913 the MacMahon Line, which China rejects (though it accepts that line as its frontier with Burma, which was then part of British India).

Under his half brother King Pagan, the Second Anglo Burmese War in 1852 ended with the annexation of Lower Burma by the British Empire.

A Crown colony, also known in the 17th century as royal colony, was a type of colonial administration of the English and later British Empire.

Helen Mary Mayo, OBE (1 October 1878 13 November 1967) was an Australian medical doctor and medical educator, born and raised in Adelaide.

He was knighted in 1932, receiving the Order of Merit in 1944 and the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1948.

During Canada's colonial past there were various movements in both Upper Canada (present day Ontario) and Lower Canada (present day Quebec) to achieve independence from the British Empire.

Burma was ruled as part of Britain s Indian Empire until 1935, and the links between the two countries remained strong after Burma gained its independence in 1947.

These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land mass and was the largest empire in history.

All three brothers (including Maurice, posthumously) were appointed Commanders in the Order of the British Empire in December 2001 with the ceremony taking place at Buckingham Palace on 27 May 2004.

Origins In 1805, the First French Empire, under Napoleon Bonaparte, was the dominant military land power on the European continent, while the Royal Navy controlled the seas.

In 1810, during the Napoleonic Wars, Mauritius passed to British hands, as confirmed in the Treaty of Paris, at a time when the British Empire was expanding its influence in the Indian Ocean region.

The Battle of Megiddo had begun with an attack by British Empire infantry along an almost continuous line from the Mediterranean Sea across the Plain of Sharon into the foothills of the Judean Hills.

Part of the reason is that they were not fighting for India. The soldiers were all volunteers soldiering was their profession, and they served the very British Empire that was oppressing their own people back home.