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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire

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by H. W. Crocker, III


  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 Riponr />
  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

  Omdurman

  Battle of

  opium

  Ottoman Empire, the

  Ottoman Turks

  Outram, Sir James

  Oxford

  Oxus River

  P

  Pacific, the

  paganism

  Pakenham, Kitty

  Pakistan

  Pale, the

  Palestine Exploration Fund

  Palestine–

  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

  Q

  Qatar

  Quebec (see: New France)

  Quebec Act

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

  Queen Victoria

  R

  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
r />   Rum Rebellion

  Russell, Lord John

  Russia

  Russian Bolsheviks

  S

  Sahib, Chanda

  Samoa

  San Juan Ulúa 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

  Sudan–

  Suez Canal

  Suez Crisis, the

  Suez

  Sufism

  Sultan, Tipu (Tiger of Mysore)

  Sumatra

  Sun, The

  Swift, Jonathan

  Switzerland

  Sydney

  Sykes-Picot Agreement

  Syria

  T

  Tahiti

  Taiping Rebellion

  Taipings

  Taj Mahal

  Talty, Stephan

  Tandy, Napper

  Tanganyika

  Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika)

  Tarleton, Banastre

  Tasmania

  taxation

 

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