Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 ...

On April 18, 1775, seven hundred British soldiers began ... "There are men outside who are going to fight the might of the British empire; he wants to be a part of that. He sees himself as a ...

Only the British empire was expected to survive as the standard-bearer of imperialism, alongside two very different superpower peers: the Soviet Union and the United States. Within weeks of D-Day ...