Dated 1733, titled "A Map of the British Empire in America, " it was printed in London.
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Gladstone, a formidable reformer, personified an era when the British Empire was the great world power.
The creation and expansion of a British empire (which Mr Brown downplayed) helped too.
Ilona Soane-Sands, who is heavily involved in organising Alderney Week, was awarded the British Empire Medal.
Now the 44-year-old has received the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the New Year Honours list.
Like the British Empire, however, the seafaring group is bound to wax and wane over time.
He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1997.
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After separating from the shrinking British empire, Somaliland voluntarily joined with Somalia for economic and security reasons.
Having thrown off the tyranny of the British Empire, the first Americans were understandably skeptical of government.
We watch the red grow and shrink in the atlases as the British Empire expands and recedes.
Kim Douglas, chair of the George Coller Memorial Fund, has also been awarded a British Empire Medal.
The British empire was neither good nor bad, but complicated, paradoxical and, above all, of its time.
The British empire, navigated by jeweled clockwork, was set on course by collaboration--and a touch of well-timed fraud.
Conservation is a fairly new idea - ivory used to be a major staple of British Empire trading.
Herbert was presented with an honor, the Order of the British Empire, by Queen Elizabeth II in 2010.
It was just a month after Congress officially put an end to the war with the British Empire.
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Alice and her sister Milly were each awarded the British Empire Medal last year for their charity efforts.
At the time of its construction, in colonial days, it was the largest prison in the British empire.
And the British Empire is certainly either nonexistent or a shadow of itself.
David Moody was also honoured and will receive the British Empire Medal for services to the Jersey Sea Cadets.
Mr Gale received the British Empire Medal for his action, Miss Oxberry said.
It is the latest award for the explorer who has an Order of the British Empire (OBE) among his honours.
The images were to represent the British Empire, but when he presented them in 1930 they were rejected as "inappropriate".
When Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was born one fifth of the Earth's surface was covered by the British Empire.
Between the late 18th and the early 19th centuries four very different types of British empire had begun to emerge.
When the British empire was being dismantled it was unsure what to do with its dozens of small islands like Antigua.
This really is rather odd: especially as Jony Ives is now Sir Jony, a Knight of that very British Empire.
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Meanwhile, Judith Biggs, who works as a station host at Warwick Parkway railway station has been awarded a British Empire Medal.
He is visiting Amritsar in the state of Punjab, where hundreds of demonstrators were shot dead by British Empire troops in 1919.
Among the many honors Minoru garnered in his lifetime was the Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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