The proliferation of the Company’s power chiefly took two forms: the outright annexation of Indian states and subsequent direct governance of the underlying regions, or asserting powe through treaties in which Indian rulers acknowledged the Company’s hegemony in return for limited internal autonomy. ...
The trains killed a lot of people, prompting the city to require a rider on horseback waving a red warning flag to precede each engine. Despite the urban cowboys, as they did become known (many dressed the part, Ten Gallon and all), the deaths proceeded apace. One locomotive, Number 147...
The aim was to establish a flag-post to secure imperial rule in India, Australia, Mauritius, and South East Asia. Convicts, guards and soldiers soon populated the islands. British expansionism had to face environmental forces that endangered the imperial project. Frequent cyclones, for example, ...
Tarleton, commander of the feared British Legion, was a particularly despised foe who had recently overseen the massacre of Americans at the Battle of Waxhaws after refusing their white flag of surrender. Vengeance was much on the minds of Morgan’s men, who dubbed Tarleton “the Butcher.” ...
the Susquehannocks retaliated by killing colonists in Virginia and Maryland, and the English marshaled their forces and laid siege to the Susquehannock. The conflict became uglier after the militia executed a delegation of Susquehannock ambassadors under a flag of truce. A few parties of warriors int...
and Austria and the Principality of Liechtenstein to the east. The Swiss nation is a confederation of 26 member states called cantons, and the nation's capital is Bern, a city that began about 1160 and was officially founded in 1191. The national flag consists of a square red field with ...
A British Empire flag combining the arms of the dominions to represent their growing significance The path to independence for the white colonies of the British Empire began with the 1839 Durham Report, which proposed unification and self-government for Upper and Lower Canada, as a solution to po...
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--Commercial interests dominated the growth of the empire Flag follows trade The best example was the British East India Company V. The rise and fall of the British Empire In 1583, English explorers discovered and took possession of the Island of Newfoundland ( now belongs to Canada ), helped...
Alex Chase-Levenson. The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860.doi:10.1093/ahr/rhad001Crook TomThe American Historical Review