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A quick overview of the Kings and Queens of England from Queen Anne in 1702 to George III in 1760.
… her Industrial Revolution was gaining momentum, and trade with India’s princes was almost a monopoly …
Below is a brief overview of the Kings of England from Queen Anne in 1702, the last of the Stuarts and the first ruler of Great Britain, to the reign of George III and the upheavals of the French Revolution in 1789 and American independence in 1776.
Posted August 31 2016
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The Russians had checked it in the East, but in the West the expansion of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire was far from over.
… When it ended in 1713, the War of the Spanish Succession had confirmed that the French had designs on Britain as well as other European states, and during the Seven Years War of 1756-63 Louis Xv harassed British colonies in North America and India too …
In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte wrapped up the short-lived French Republic, crowned himself Emperor of the French, and set about conquering Europe. However, failure to invade Moscow in 1812 was the first sign of vulnerability, and on June 18, 1815, his dream was ended by allied forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington.
Posted February 3 2020
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Britain’s ties to the rulers of Russia go back to the time of the Norman Invasion.
… In 1801, Napoleon Bonaparte, bent on European domination, persuaded Paul I to harass the British in India … but shortly after a young John Wesley Hackworth began Russia’s railway revolution in 1836, lingering fears for India led Britain and Russia into conflict in Afghanistan …
The story of Russia began when Vikings established a Princedom in Great Novgorod just across the Baltic Sea. At the same moment, the Vikings’ Great Army was also swarming over England, and King Alfred the Great was preparing to do battle; but a Viking past is not all that the two nations have in common.
Posted August 21 2016
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Hoping to please opinion at home, the French Emperor pressured the Turks into new outrages against their Christian population, and Russia hit back.
… Over in London, Prime Minister Lord Aberdeen’s cabinet cared little for Turkey but was convinced that Nicholas had designs on India …
The Crimean War of 1853-1856 cost over 600,000 lives, and in the short term changed very little for those involved. It all started because the French Emperor, Napoleon III, wanted to curry favour with Roman Catholic opinion in Europe, but in no time at all France, Russia and Britain had committed themselves to positions from which they could not back down.
Posted February 22 2016
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Sherlock Holmes turns to his brother for help when the case of a missing Greek proves unexpectedly troublesome.
… Served in India … it is not hard to say that a man with that bearing, expression of authority, and sunbaked skin, is a soldier, is more than a private, and is not long from India …
A translator in London has witnessed what he believes is the kidnapping of a Greek man. Sherlock Holmes is frustrated by the lack of data, so he takes Dr Watson to see his brother Mycroft at the exclusive Diogenes Club. Mycroft, Sherlock claims, is an even better detective than he is.
Posted August 28 2018
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A quick overview of the Kings and Queens of England from George III in 1760 to Victoria in 1837.
… India came under direct rule from London, the British Raj, in 1858, and Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India …
Below is a brief overview of the Kings of England from King George III in 1760, who lost the American colonies but encouraged the Industrial Revolution, to Queen Victoria in 1837, in whose day Britain became a worldwide trading Empire and ushered in the modern world.
Posted August 31 2016