British Empire: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As British Empire and Commonwealth
Date 1601 - 1997

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William Pitt the Younger
William Pitt, the Younger
prime minister of United Kingdom
William Pitt, the Elder
William Pitt, the Elder
prime minister of United Kingdom
Robert Clive
Robert Clive
British colonial administrator
Warren Hastings, oil painting by Tilly Kettle; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Warren Hastings
British colonial administrator
Frederick Lugard
Frederick Lugard
British colonial administrator
Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier
prime minister of Canada
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh
English explorer
Frank Holl: Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
British politician and social reformer
John Smith
John Smith
British explorer
Thomas Stamford Raffles
Sir Stamford Raffles
British colonial agent
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
British colonial administrator
Napier, Robert Napier, 1st Baron
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier
British field marshal
Sir Hercules Robinson, lithograph by W.H. Schröder
Sir Hercules Robinson
British colonial governor
George Goldie
Sir George Goldie
British colonial administrator
Sir Eyre Coote
British soldier

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