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.
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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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.
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.
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.
These are harsher terms than the British Empire ever imposed, even backed up by gunboats and the Royal Navy.
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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.
When the British empire was being dismantled it was unsure what to do with its dozens of small islands like Antigua.
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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In addition to this human slaughter, the war killed off the 19th century world, toppling several monarchies and weakening the British Empire.
He notes the similarities with the rise of Germany a century ago and the inevitable threat it posed to the British empire.
You know, 13 colonies coming together defying the British Empire, that's hard.
The tests, carried out at Woomera (once the British empire's equivalent of Cape Canaveral), involved a charge equivalent to six tonnes of TNT.
Why was Indira Gandhi, daughter of a committed enemy of the British empire, welcomed by such establishment institutions as Badminton school and Oxford?
Much surrounding history an unwinding of the British empire in places like Ireland and India is lost, but such is the telescoping necessary for the screen.
After the British empire abolished slavery in 1833, British Canada was the destination for the celebrated Underground Railroad that spirited escaped American slaves to freedom.
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