Portal:British Empire/Selected picture

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These are selected pictures related to the British Empire which appear on Portal:British Empire.



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Credit: Melton Prior

The

Battle of Majuba Mountain
just before he was killed.



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An anachronous map of British and, prior to the Union of the Crowns, English imperial possessions


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Credit: The Illustrated London News

An 1876 engraving of Khokar

Illustrated London News
. The British colonial officials in general were impressed by the military qualities of the Rajputs.

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Painting credit: Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Clive and his family with an Indian maid, painted 1765. Size: 55 by 67 inches (140 by 171 cm). Staatliche Museen, Munich, Germany.


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Credit: Torajirō Kasai

A 1900 print depicting a battle between allied British and Japanese troops against Chinese combatants at Beijing Castle during the Boxer Rebellion.



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Credit: Mark Tantrum

King

fifty-four independent member states. All but two of these countries were formerly part of the British Empire
.



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Credit: Edward Linley Sambourne

editorial cartoon of the Scramble for Africa period, depicting British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes
as a giant standing over the continent.



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Credit:
Eric Gaba

A topographic map of the Falkland Islands, an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, which Ernesto Sabato called: "the last trace of colonialism."



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