The territory, he chided them ... a dozen countries embarked on a treacherous voyage from the seat of the British empire to the shores of the French empire on a crusade that succeeded in ...

A British court said Thursday that the U.K. can transfer sovereignty over the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius, overturning a block that was imposed hours before the agreement was due to be ...

It would have been more accurate to say: The British Empire consisted essentially of territories forcefully occupied and governed at gunpoint. The British landed on the Indian Subcontinent at the ...