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Há 1 dia · Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of ...
Há 2 dias · Britain's overseas possessions grew rapidly in the first half of the century, especially with the expansion of vast territories in Canada, Australia, India, and in the last two decades of the century in Africa. By the end of the century, the British controlled a fifth of the world's land and one-quarter of the world's population.
Há 2 dias · Thereafter Britain took a prominent role in combating the trade, and slavery itself was abolished in the British Empire (except for India) with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. Between 1808 and 1860, the West Africa Squadron seized approximately 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans who were aboard. [379]
Há 4 dias · British Allied victory. Coalition victory, Treaty of Fontainebleau, First Treaty of Paris. Bourbon Restoration; Napoleon's exile to Elba. Various territorial changes. Beginning of the Congress of Vienna. Hostilities resume with the return of Napoleon to power in 1815. Second Kandyan War. (1815) United Kingdom.
Há 1 dia · t. e. The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group that inhabited much of what is now England in the Early Middle Ages, and spoke Old English. They traced their origins to Germanic settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century.
Há 2 dias · Saturday, 18 November 2023. By Ugo Realfonzo. Leopold II giving a speech on Congo at the Bourse in 1893 on the left, and Belgian King Leopold II. Credit: Creative Commons. On this day, 18 November 1889, King Leopold II organised an anti-slavery conference in Brussels. Rather than being a key moment for abolitionism in Europe, it helped secure ...
