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...n in 1643. Tonga was known as the Friendly Islands, following a visit by [[British Empire|British]] captain [[James Cook]] in 1773, and who returned to the islands i

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...lvaro de Mendaña de Neira first sighted the islands in 1568, and in 1764 [[British Empire|British]] Captain John Byron charted the area. The islands were named Ellic

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'''Jeremy Black''' (born 30 October, 1955) [[Member of the Order of the British Empire|MBE]] is [[United Kingdom|British]] [[historian]] and a Professor of Histor

...The islands were among the first in the Caribbean to be colonized by the [[British Empire|British]], in 1623. Both islands were originally inhabited by hunter-gather

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...isted the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]] outlawed slavery almost throughout the [[British Empire]] via the [[Slavery Abolition Act]] of 1834, which also paid for losses inc

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...nd briefly capitulated to [[Walter Raleigh]] in 1595, and finally to the [[British Empire|British]] commander Lieutenant-General Ralph Abercromby in 1797, and was fo

...3 Treaty of Versailles, ownership of the islands were transferred to the [[British Empire|British]]. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines were declared a Crown Colony in

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...nant power in the region by the seventeenth century, until 1796 when the [[British Empire|British]] declared the Maldives a protected state. The island sultanate acc

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...1768. Captain James Cook named the islands the New Hebrides in 1774, and [[British Empire|British]] and [[French]] settlers arrived during the nineteenth century est

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Dr '''Helen Patricia Sharman''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry|FRSC]] (born 30th May 1963

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...t failed, and in 1879 the kingdom had its independence recognized by the [[British Empire|British]]. Following the end of the Second Boer War in 1903, Swaziland was

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...global superpowers. Its territory consists, approximately, of the former British Empire plus North America.

...utbreak of the [[First World War]], Togoland was invaded and occupied by [[British Empire|British]] and [[French]] forces which divided it into two administrative zo

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...ia came under the direct control of the British Crown as a colony of the [[British Empire]].

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...up, it has been the subject of numerous conflicts between [[French]] and [[British Empire|British]] interests during its history. The first human settlers, the Arawa

...first king of the Basotho people and by 1868 requested protection by the [[British Empire|British]] in 1868, but further violent disputes over land resulted in Basut

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...y home to other government departments responsible for administering the [[British Empire]] at home and abroad.<ref>''FCO'': '[http://www.fco.gov.uk/resources/en/pdf

...ied to those member countries that became independent firstly within the [[British Empire]] and retain the [[British monarch]] as [[Head of State]] as member states

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