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

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

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

This effectively means a declaration of war by the whole British Empire against the German Empire.

The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the British Empire over the boundary between the US and the British Empire.

The bulk of British emigration, trade, and capital went to areas outside the formal British Empire.

The system came into official use across the British Empire.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

During the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire after the war, Iraq came under British mandate.

The BBC has provided background on the Colonial contributions to the British Empire war effort.

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

For example, did the British decline because the US could not be stopped, or because of problems within the British Empire and at home?

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

The British established colonies in Australia in 1788, New Zealand in 1840 and Fiji in 1872, with much of Oceania becoming part of the British Empire.

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

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

Sometimes gradually, sometimes by fits and starts, control of Zanzibar came into the hands of the British Empire.

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

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

Since the height of the British Empire in the late 19th century, Britannia has often been associated with British maritime dominance, as in the patriotic song Rule, Britannia! .

Canada's strong attachment to the British Empire and Commonwealth led to major participation in British military efforts in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II.

They are the remnants of the British Empire and several have specifically voted to remain British territories (Bermuda in 1995, Gibraltar in 2002 and the Falkland Islands in 2013).

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.

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

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.

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

British and Empire forces landed in southern Iraq and overthrew the coup in the brief Anglo Iraqi War of May 1941.

Since 1948 substantial immigration from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia has been a legacy of ties forged by the British Empire.

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

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.

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.

There is an English diaspora in former parts of the British Empire especially the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.

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

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

British Empire forces peaked at around 1,000,000 land, naval and air forces, and were drawn primarily from British India, with British Army forces, 100,000 East and West African colonial troops, and smaller numbers of land and air forces from several other Dominions and Colonies.

The title is a reference to George Orwell s essay during the years he was serving the British Empire as a police officer in Burma.

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

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