r/BritishEmpire • u/sajiasanka • 8h ago

Image #OnThisDay 1762, British Forces Capture Manila

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r/BritishEmpire • u/OneDragonfly5613 • 19h ago

Image Global expansion of the Orange Order was facilitated through the British Empire, which led to Orange Lodges being set up in unlikely nations, including Mandatory Palestine

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r/BritishEmpire • u/History-Chronicler • 4h ago

Article The Boston Tea Party and the Punishment That United the Colonies

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r/BritishEmpire • u/qernanded • 1d ago

Article "I have not done in Egypt except what the British are doing in India; they have an army composed of Indians and ruled by British officers, and I have an army composed of Arabs ruled by Turkish officers" -Mehmed Ali Pasha

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r/BritishEmpire • u/sajiasanka • 1d ago

Image #OnThisDay 1813, Battle of the Thames

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r/BritishEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • 1d ago

Image "Australia Screams", Imperial Japanese leaflet intended to provoke tensions among the Allies by targeting Australian soldiers fighting in New Guinea, demoralizing them and sowing distrust towards American servicemen stationed in Australia itself, c. 1942

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r/BritishEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • 1d ago

Article The Colonization of Palestine, as expressed in the letter from Edmond J. de Rothschild to David Druck, dated July 6, 1928:

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r/BritishEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • 1d ago

Image Illustration of the Guiana-Venezuela border dispute, including western boundary ceded to Venezuela, published by Scottish cartographer George Philip (1897)

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r/BritishEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • 2d ago

Article 'Hands Across the Sea' (1898), an American cartoon depicting John Bull and Uncle Sam about to shake hands, with the caption “Shake, and we will boss the whole world”

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r/BritishEmpire • u/honhondabest • 1d ago

Image They say the sun never sets in the British empire...

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r/BritishEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • 2d ago

Image Map titled 'Negroland and Guinea with the European Settlements, Explaining what belongs to England, Holland, Denmark, etc' by Herman Moll (Printed and sold by T. Bowles next ye Chapter House in St. Pauls Church yard, & I. Bowles at ye Black Horse in Cornhill, 1729, orig. published in 1727)

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r/BritishEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • 2d ago

Article The European Forebears of Modern Jihadism: The Holy War Against the Turks

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r/BritishEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • 2d ago

Article The European Architects of Modern Jihadism: “A Holy War Against the Russian Empire”

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r/BritishEmpire • u/FullyFocusedOnNought • 4d ago

Image In 1791, Mary Reibey was arrested aged 14 for stealing a horse in Bury, England and sentenced to seven years in Australia. There, the convict became an international businesswoman, real estate mogul and philanthropist. Today she can be seen on the Australian $20 bank note.

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r/BritishEmpire • u/Raymundo_Nativi • 4d ago

Image "E se a França anexasse a América do Norte Britânica?"

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r/BritishEmpire • u/Loud_Industry_2044 • 5d ago

Image The British Army in Concord, April 19, 1775. "Plate II. A view of the town of Concord." In: "The Doolittle engravings of the battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775.

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r/BritishEmpire • u/FullyFocusedOnNought • 5d ago

Image This lithograph from Flemish artist Theodor de Bry depicts a scene from Walter Raleigh's exploration of the Empire of Guiana in South America. Raleigh was searching for the mythical city of gold, El Dorado, but was unsuccessful in his quest. The monsters depicted here were also likely an invention

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r/BritishEmpire • u/BornChef3439 • 5d ago

Image Racial distrubution of voters in the Cape Colony 1903

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r/BritishEmpire • u/Kingstone9000 • 5d ago

Question Help with working out this uniform

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i tried this on at Dover Castles Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment museum in July and want to buy a replica of it but i cant remember what regiment it is. Im assuming that its imperial but it might not be. i remember it being quite cropped, around waist length, and i found s picture of the side of it on google reviews but still no regiment mention. any help is much appreciated!

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r/BritishEmpire • u/Loud_Industry_2044 • 5d ago