Top Items About Colonialism
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| Anecdotes | Moderation & the Indian Raj | British officials in the Indian Raj were frequently tempted by the many opportunities for corruption. During... | Anonymous | 560 | |
| Anecdotes | Peccadillo? | In August 1842, Charles Napier, having annexed the province of Sind (giving the British control of the Indus River, in... | Anonymous | 125 | |
| Anecdotes | 67 Shirts? | In 1904, Colonel Francis Younghusband persuaded the British government to grant him permission to invade, for no... | Anonymous | 46 | |
| Quotes | Winston Churchill: Cable to Africa | When Great Britain`s power was at its zenith, news reached the House of Commons that a telephone cable to Africa had... | Anonymous | 45 | |
| Anecdotes | Conquistador | In 1518, Hernando Cortes asked the Spanish governor to sponsor an expedition to Mexico. The governor, eager to capture... | Anonymous | 44 | |
| Anecdotes | Gaulling Suggestion? | One day in the 1950s, Jacques Soustelle, governor-general of Algeria between 1955 and 1956, returned from Algiers, where... | Anonymous | 41 | |
| Anecdotes | Red in the Face? | Eleanor Roosevelt once subjected Winston Churchill to a diatribe on the subject of British imperialism. "The Indians... | Anonymous | 40 | |
| Anecdotes | Spartan Reply | Having subdued (or formed alliances with) all of the other major Greek city-states, Philip II (the father of Alexander... | Anonymous | 39 | |
| Anecdotes | Mount Everest | Surveyors named Mount Everest after the 19th-century Surveyor General of India (Sir George Everest) in 1856. Though... | Anonymous | 38 | |
| Anecdotes | Standing Army | At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, shady Elbridge Gerry compared a standing army to an erect penis. It was,... | Anonymous | 38 |
