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Congo, the
Congress of Vienna
Conservative Party
Constitution, (U.S.)
Cook, Captain
Cook, Joseph
Coote, Stephen
Corn Laws
Cornwall
Cornwallis, Charles
“Cornwallis Code,”
Corry, Montagu
Coulon de Villiers, Joseph
Coulon de Villiers, Louis
Coward, Noel
Cowperthwaite, John James
Crimean War, the
Croker, John Wilson
Cromwell, Oliver
Cuba
Curtin, John
Curzon, George
Cyprus
D
Dahomey
Dail Eireann
Dalrymple, Hew
Damascus
Dark Continent
Darwin
Dayaks
de Clare, Richard (Strongbow)
de Rothschild, Lionel
De Valera, Eamon
Declaration of Independence (U.S.)
Delhi
democracy
dervishes
Devon
Dieppe
Discourse Concerning Western Planting
Disraeli, Benjamin
Doughty, Charles
Drake, John
Drake, Francis
Drake, Thomas
Dublin
Duignan, Peter
Dulles, John Foster
Dupleix, Joseph Francois
Durham House
Dutch East India Company,
Dyer, Reginald, “the savior of India,”
E
East Indies, the
Easter Rebellion, the
Easter Rising
Eden, Anthony
Edward, Morgan
Egypt
Eisenhower, Dwight David
El Dorado
El Lord(
see
: Baring, Sir Evelyn)
elephants
Elphinstone, William
es-Said, Nuri
Eton
evangelicalism
F
Fairlie, Gerard
Falkland Islands
Falklands War, the
Far East
Farwell, Byron
Fascist Italy
Fashoda
Federal Party
Ferguson, Patrick
First Anglo-Burmese War
First Gulf War
First Opium War
First Sikh War
Fitzgeralds, the
“flight of the Earls, the,”
Foreign Office
Fort Necessity
Fort St. David
Fort St. George
Fortescue, John
founding fathers (U.S.)
Fox, James
Foxe, John
France
Franco-Prussian War
Franklin, Benjamin
Fraser, Malcolm
Free French
free market
free press
freedom of religion
French and Indian War, the
French Revolution (the Terror)
French Suez Canal Company
Frere, Bartle
Frobisher, Martin
G
Gallipoli
Gambia, The
Gandhi, Mohandas
Gann, Lewis H.
Garden of Eden
Gates, Horatio
Gaza Strip
George, Lloyd
Georgia
Germany
Gestapo
Ghana
Gibraltar
Gilbert, Humphrey
Gizzo, Mordecai
Glubb, Frederic Manley
Glubb, John Bagot (“Glubb Pasha”)
as Abu Hunaik
Goa
Godwin, Peter
Gold Rush, Australian
Golden Hind
Golden Temple of Amritsar
Goldsmith, Oliver
Gordon Memorial College (now the University of Khartoum)
Gordon, General Charles George
Gordon, William Staveley “Monkey,” 227
Gough, Hugh
Grattan, Henry
Graves, Robert
Gravier, Charles
Great Game, the
Greece
Greek Orthodox
Greene, Nathanael
Grenfell, Sir Francis
Griffith, Arthur
Grosvenor, Lady Constance Sibell
guerrillas
Guiana
Gulf of Oman
Gulf States
Gulf War
H
Habsburgs of Austria
Hakluyt, Richard
Hamilton, Sir Ian
Harar
Harvey, Robert
Havelock, Henry
Hawkins, John
Hawkins, William
Headhunters
Hejaz
Henry IV (Viscount Bolingbroke)
Henty, G. A.
Hicks, William (Hicks Pasha)
Himalayas
Congress Party
Hitler, Adolf
HMS
Bounty
HMS
Illustrious
HMS
Kelly
HMS
Queen Elizabeth
Hogarth, David
Holland
Holocaust
Holy Land
Home Rule
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hottentots
House of Commons
House of Hanover
House of Lords
Howe, William
Hudson Bay
Hughes, William Morris “Billy” “Little Digger,”
Huguenot pirates
Huguenots, the
Humphries, Ralph E. (Rusty)
Hung-sen-Tsuen
Hussein, Ali
Hussein, Saddam
Hussein, Sherif
Hussein, Zeid
Hyderabad
I
Ibn Ali Hussein
Ibn Saud
Idi Amin
Ikhwan
Imperial British East Africa Company
Imperial Japan
Imperialism
In Which We Serve
indentured servants
India
India Act of 1784,
Indian Legion
Indian National Congress
Indian-Pakistani War
“Indirect Rule,”
Indonesia
International Monetary Fund
Ionian Islands
Iran
Iranian Parliament
Iraq
Iraq War
Ireland
Irish Church
Irish Free State
Irish House of Lords
Irish potato famine
Irish Republic
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Irish Republican Brotherhood
Irish Volunteers
Irish war
Ironside, Sir Edmund “Tiny,”
Isandhlwana
Islamic Mughal Empire
Islamism
Israel
Israeli Defense Forces
Italy
J
Jacobites
Jamaica
Jamestown
Java
Jefferson, Thomas
Jerome, Jennie
Jerusalem
jihad
Jinnah, Muhammad Ali
Johnson, Charles
Johnson, Samuel
Jones, Jemima Tullekin (Lady Cornwallis)
Jones, William
K
Kaaba
Kabul
Kai-shek, Generalissimo Chiang
Kali
Kama Sutra
Kashmir
Kaunda, Kenneth
Kelly, Ned
Kelsey, Harry
Kennedy, Joseph
Kenya
Kenyatta, Jomo
Kerr, John
Khan, Reza
Khartoum
khedive, the
Khyber Pass
King Abdullah II,
King Charles I,
King Charles II,
King Edward VII,
King Feisal II,
King George II,
King George III,
King George V,
King George VI,
King Henry II,
King Henry V,
King Henry VII,
King Henry VIII,
King Hussein
King James I (James VI of Scotland)
King James II,
King Philip II,
King William III,
King, Henry Churchill
Kipling, Rudyard
Kitchener, Henry Elliott Chevallier
Kitchener, Herbert
Kokoda Trail Campaign
Koran, the
Korea
Korean War
Kowloon Peninsula
Kruger, Paul
Krushchev, Nikita
Kuwait
L
Labour government
Labour Party, the
Lake Regions of Central Africa, The
Lake Tanganyika
Lamb, Roger
Lancaster House
Langworth, Richard
Lapierre, Dominique
Lawrence, Thomas Edward (Lawrence of Arabia)
Le Testu, Guillaume
League of Nations
Lebanon
Lee, Thomas
Left, the
Leiter, Mary
Li Hung Chang
Liberal Party
Livingstone, Dr. David
Locke, John
Locklear, Heather
London
Londonderry
Lord Byron
Lord Carrington
Lord Castlereagh
Lord Chelmsford
Lord Cromer
Lord Dalhousie
Lord Granville
Lord Grey
Lord Lugard
Lord Minto
Lord Nelson
Lord North
Lord Ripon
Lord Salisbury
Lord Soames
Lord Vaughn
Lord Windsor
Loyalists
Lucknow
Lugard, Frederick
Lundy, Robert
Lynch, Sir Thomas
M
MacArthur, Douglas
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
MacCarthy, Charles
Macdonald, Hector “Fighting Mac,”
Macmillan, Harold
MacMurrough, Dermot
Macnaghten, William Hay
Macquarie, Lachlan
Madras
Mafeking
Magna Carta
Mahdi, the
Mahdi's tomb, the
Mahdist revolt
Mahratta confederacy
Makarios, Michail Christodolou Mouskos
Malacca
Straits of Malacca
Malakand Field Force
malaria
Malawi (
see
: Nyasaland)
Malaya
Malayan Emergency
Malaysia
Malta
Manchu regime
“manifest destiny,”
Maori Wars
Maracaibo
Marchand, Jean-Baptiste
Marigold
Market Drayton
Massachusetts
Mau-Mau insurgency
Mauritius
Mayflower
MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire)
Mecca
haj
Hashemites
Medina
Meerut
Melbourne Herald, The
men-of-war
Menzies, Robert
Mesopotamia
Mexican War
Mexico (
see
: New Spain)
Middle East
Middle Temple
Military Service Act of 1916
Minto, Gilbert-Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
missionaries
Mitchell, Lieutenant Colonel Colin (“Mad Mitch”)
Modyford, Thomas
Mohammed (prophet)
Monash, John
Monroe Doctrine, the
Monte Camino
Monte Carlo
Montserrat
Morant, Harry “Breaker,”
Morgan, Daniel
Morgan, Henry (“Harry”)
Morris, James
Mossadeq, Mohammad
Mountbatten, Louis
Mountbatten, Pamela
Mountbatten, Patricia
Mugabe, Robert
Muhammad, Dost
Murphy, Peter
Musket Wars
Muslim League
Mussolini, Benito Amilcare Andrea
Mutiny on the Bounty
Muzorewa, Abel
Myngs, Christopher
Mysore
N
Nairobi
Nanking
Napier, George (Colonel)
Napier, George
Napier, Henry
Napier, Sir Charles
Napier, William
Napoleon III,
Napoleonic wars, the
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
Natal
National Socialism
National Socialist Germany (Nazi Germany)
Nauru
Navigation Acts
Near East, the
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Netherlands, the
New France (
see
: Quebec)
New Guinea
New South Wales
New South Wales Corps
New Spain (
see
: Mexico)
New World, the
New York
New Zealand Labour Party
New Zealand
Newsweek
Nigeria
Nile, the
Nisbet, Robert
Nkomo, Joshua
Nkrumah, Kwame
North Africa
North America
North American colonies
North American revolution
North Carolina
Northern Ireland
Northern Rhodesia (
see
: Zambia)
Northwest Frontier
Northwest Passage
Norway
Nuri es-Said
Nyasaland (Malawi)
Nyerere, Julius
O
O'Connell, Daniel
O'Dwyer, Michael
O'Hara, Charles
O'Neill, Hugh (“The O'Neill”)
Oberlin College
Ohio Territory
Ohio Valley
Old Blighty

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