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Omdurman

Battle of

opium

Ottoman Empire, the

Ottoman Turks

Outram, Sir James

Oxford

Oxus River

Pacific, the

paganism

Pakenham, Kitty

Pakistan

Pale, the

Palestine Exploration Fund

Palestineâ

Panama;

Panama City

Papua New Guinea

Parliament

Parnell, Charles Stewart

Pasha, Nubar

Pax Americana

Pax Britannica

Peacock Throne

Peake, Frederick Gerard

Pearl Harbor

Peel, Robert

Peking

Pelican

Peninsular War

Penn, William

Persia

Persian Gulf, the

Peru

Philby, Kim

Philby, Harry St. John

Philippines, the

Phillip, Arthur

piracy

Pitcairn Island

Plutarch

Plymouth Bay Colony

Plymouth

Po, Fernando

Polk, James K.

polygamy

Port Royal Regiment

Port Royal

Portobello

Portugal

Prince Abd al-Ilah

Prince Charles

Prince Feisal

Prince Louis of Battenberg

Prince Philip

Princess Charlotte

Proclamation Act

Protestant Ascendency

Provisional IRA

Punch

Punjab, the

Qatar

Quebec (
see
: New France)

Quebec Act

Queen Elizabeth I (“Good Queen Bess,” Virgin Queen)

Queen Victoria

Raffles Hotel

Raffles, Thomas Stanford

“Father of Singapore,”

Rahman, Tunku Abdul

Raleigh, Walter

Raleigh, Wat

Red Sea

redcoats

Redmond, John

Revolutionary United Front

Rhodes University

Rhodes, Cecil,

Rhodesian Bush War

Roanoke Island (“lost colony”)

Roberts, J. M.

Roberts, Lord Frederick (“Little Bobs,” “Bobs”)

Romanovs

Rome

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR)

Roosevelt, Kermit

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rorke's Drift

Rory O'Donnell

Rory O'More

Rothschild, Lionel de

Roundheads, the

Royal Air Force (RAF)

Royal Artillery

Royal Australian Air Force

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (“Mounties”)

Royal Engineers

Royal Geographical Society

Royal Irish Constabulary

Royal Irish Fusiliers

Royal Marines

Royal Military Academy at Woolwich

Royal Navy; College at Dartmouth; West Africa Squadron of

Royal Yacht Squadron

Rum Rebellion

Russell, Lord John

Russia

Russian Bolsheviks

Sahib, Chanda

Samoa

San Juan UlÃºa harbor

Sandhurst

Santayana, George

Sarawak

Saudi Arabia

Savage, Michael Joseph

Saye, Moreton

Scotland

SEATO (Southeast Asian Treaty Organization)

Second Anglo-Dutch War

Second Mahratta War

Second Opium War

Second Sikh War

Sellers, Peter

Sepoy Rebellion

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Seven Years' War, the

Seychelles, the

Shah, Reza (king)

Shanghai

Shanghai Foreign Arms Corps (Ever Victorious Army)

Shepstone, Theophilus

Sheridan, Richard Brinley

Shore, John

Sidney, Henry

Siege of Derry

Sierra Leone

Sinai

Sind

Singapore

“singeing the beard of the King of Spain,”

Sinn Fein

Siraj-ad-daula (Nawab)

Sithole, Reverend Ndabaningi

slave trade

slavery

Slavery Abolition Act of 1833,

Slim, Sir William

smallpox

Smith, Ian Douglas

smoking

smuggling

Smuts, Jan

socialism

SOE, Special Operations Executive

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Africa

South African Republic

South America

South Australia

South Georgia

South Pacific

South Sandwich Islands

Southeast Asia

Southern Ireland

Southern Rhodesia (
see
: Zimbabwe)

Soviet Russia

Soviet Union

Spain

Spanish Armada

Spanish Caribbean

Spanish Main, the

Spanish Netherlands

Speke, John Hanning

Spice Islands

St. John Philby, Harry

St. Patrick

Staff College

Stalin, Joseph

Stanley, Henry Morton

Stanley, Oliver

Stavely, Charles

Stilwell, General “Vinegar Joe,”

Story of the Malakand Field Force

Strachey, Lytton

Straits of Magellan

Straits of Malacca

Stuarts, the

Suakin

Sudanâ

Suez Canal

Suez Crisis, the

Suez

Sufism

Sultan, Tipu (Tiger of Mysore)

Sumatra

Sun, The

Swift, Jonathan

Switzerland

Sydney

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Syria

Tahiti

Taiping Rebellion

Taipings

Taj Mahal

Talty, Stephan

Tandy, Napper

Tanganyika

Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika)

Tarleton, Banastre

Tasmania

taxation

Taylor, Zachary

Tehran

Telegraph, The

Templer, Gerald Walter Robert (Tiger of Malaya)

Texas

Thailand

Thatcher, Margaret

Third Reich

Thirteen Colonies

Thomas, Lowell

Thomas, Morgan

Throckmorton, Bess

Thugs, the

Tibet

Tien Wang (Heavenly King)

Tigris

Times
,
The

tobacco

Tone, Wolfe

Tories

Torytown

Tower of London

Toye, Richard

Transjordan

Transvaal

Treaties of Tientsin

Treaty of Gandamak

Treaty of Paris

Treaty of Utrecht

Treaty of Vereeniging

Treaty of Waitangi

Trichinopoly

Trinidad

Trucial States (Trucial Oman)

Tudor Dynasty

Turkey

Uganda

Ulster

Ulster Volunteer Force

Ulundi

Union Jack

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

United Nations

United States

Vansittart, Henry

Venables, Robert

Versailles Peace Conference

Vichy France

Victoria

Vietnam War

Vietnam

South Vietnam

Vikings

Vimeiro

Virgin Islands

Virginia Company

Virginia

Wagga Wagga

Wales

Walpole, Horace

Walsingham, Francis

War of 1812,

Ward, Frederick Townsend

Washington, George

Wavell, Archibald

Wellesley, Arthur (“Iron Duke”)

Wellesley, Gerald

Wellesley, Richard (Marquess Wellesley)

West Africaâ

West Bank

West Indies

Western Civilization

“Western Design, the,”

Westminster Abbey

Westminster

Whigs

“White Australia” policy

white ensign, Royal Navy

White Rajahs

Whitlam, Gough

widow-burning

Wilberforce, William

William of Orange

William the Conqueror

Williamsburg

Wilson, Harold

Wilson, Woodrow

Windsor Castle

Wolfe, James

Wolseley, Garnet

Women's Institutes

women's suffrage

Woolwich

World War I (
see
: First World War, “Great War”)

World War II (
see
: Second World War)

Wynter, John

Yale University

Yardley, Michael

yellow fever

Yenbo

Yorktown

Younghusband, Francis

Zambia (
see
: Northern Rhodesia)

Zambia

ZANLA (Zimbabwean National Liberation Army)

ZANU (Zimbabwean African National Union)

Zanzibar

ZAPU (Zimbabwean African People's Union)

Zimbabwe (
see
: Southern Rhodesia)

Zionistsâ94, 337

ZIPRA (Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army)

Zululand

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