Web5 Rise of the "Second" British Empire (1783–1815) 5.1 Exploration of the Pacific 5.2 Wars with France 5.3 Abolition of slavery 6 Britain's imperial century (1815–1914) 6.1 East India Company rule and the British Raj in India 6.2 Rivalry with Russia 6.3 Cape to Cairo 6.4 Changing status of the white colonies 7 World wars (1914–1945)

WebSep 12, 2022 · As far as current British overseas territories go, the list includes land in the Antarctic as ...

WebThirteen Colonies of North America: Dark Red = New England colonies. Bright Red = Middle Atlantic colonies. Red-brown = Southern colonies. Following the success of the Jamestown and Plymouth Colonies, several more English groups established colonies in the region that became known as New England.

WebThe fourteen British Overseas Territories are: Anguilla Bermuda British Antarctic Territory British Indian Ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Falkland Islands Gibraltar Montserrat Pitcairn Islands Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Saint Helena Ascension Island Tristan ...

WebList of countries that have gained independence from the United Kingdom. Below are lists of the ...

WebThey include: Llanito or Yanito and Spanish ( Gibraltar) Cayman Creole ( Cayman Islands) Turks-Caicos Creole ( Turks and Caicos Islands) Pitkern ( Pitcairn Islands) Greek ( Akrotiri and Dhekelia)

WebThe English overseas possessions, also known as the English colonial empire, comprised a variety of overseas territories that were colonised, conquered, or otherwise acquired by the former Kingdom of England during the centuries before the Acts of Union of 1707 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland created the …

WebCrown colonies, such as Hong Kong, were differentiated from other colonies in being administered directly by the Crown, without the degree of local autonomy found in self-governed colonies and other British overseas territories such as Bermuda . Contents 1 Current Overseas Territories 2 Government 2.1 Head of State 2.2 Government 2.3 Legal …

WebBritish Solomon Islands; British Western Pacific Territories; Christmas Island; Cocos Islands; Colonial Fiji; Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Kiribati & Tuvalu) Hawaii (formerly Sandwich Islands) Kingdom of Rarotonga (Cook Islands) New Hebrides (Vanuatu, condominium with France) New Zealand. Auckland Islands; Niue; Norfolk Island; Territory of Papua and New Guinea

WebFrom the 16th to the 17th centuries, the First French colonial empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1680 to over 10,000,000 km 2 (3,900,000 sq mi), the second largest empire in the world at the time behind only the Spanish Empire. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the French colonial empire was the second largest colonial empire in the …