Portal:British Empire/Selected picture

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These are selected pictures related to the British Empire which appear on Portal:British Empire.



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Painting credit: Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West. The defeat of the French by Wolfe's forces foreshadowed British ascendancy in North America.


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An anachronous map of British and, prior to the Union of the Crowns, English imperial possessions
Note: see the discussion of this image


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Mahatma Gandhi, a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement.


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Painting credit: Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Clive and his family with an Indian maid, painted 1765. Size: 55 by 67 inches (140 by 171 cm). Staatliche Museen, Munich, Germany.


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Britannia became a symbol of Britain's imperial might.


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Queen Victoria and Benjamin Disraeli.


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Image credit: Eric Gaba
A topographic map of the Falkland Islands, an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located 480 km (300 mi) off the coast of Argentina.