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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
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
Taylor, Zachary
Tehran
Telegraph, The
Templer, Gerald Walter Robert (Tiger of Malaya)
Texas
Thailand
Thatcher, Margaret
Third Reich
Thirteen Colonies
Thomas, Lowell
Thomas, Morgan
Throckmorton, Bess
Thugs, the
Tibet
Tien Wang (Heavenly King)
Tigris
Times
,
The
tobacco
Tone, Wolfe
Tories
Torytown
Tower of London
Toye, Richard
Transjordan
Transvaal
Treaties of Tientsin
Treaty of Gandamak
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Utrecht
Treaty of Vereeniging
Treaty of Waitangi
Trichinopoly
Trinidad
Trucial States (Trucial Oman)
Tudor Dynasty
Turkey
U
Uganda
Ulster
Ulster Volunteer Force
Ulundi
Union Jack
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
United Nations
United States
V
Vansittart, Henry
Venables, Robert
Versailles Peace Conference
Vichy France
Victoria
Vietnam War
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Vikings
Vimeiro
Virgin Islands
Virginia Company
Virginia
W
Wagga Wagga
Wales
Walpole, Horace
Walsingham, Francis
War of 1812,
Ward, Frederick Townsend
Washington, George
Wavell, Archibald
Wellesley, Arthur (“Iron Duke”)
Wellesley, Gerald
Wellesley, Richard (Marquess Wellesley)
West Africa–
West Bank
West Indies
Western Civilization
“Western Design, the,”
Westminster Abbey
Westminster
Whigs
“White Australia” policy
white ensign, Royal Navy
White Rajahs
Whitlam, Gough
widow-burning
Wilberforce, William
William of Orange
William the Conqueror
Williamsburg
Wilson, Harold
Wilson, Woodrow
Windsor Castle
Wolfe, James
Wolseley, Garnet
Women's Institutes
women's suffrage
Woolwich
World War I (
see
: First World War, “Great War”)
World War II (
see
: Second World War)
Wynter, John
Y
Yale University
Yardley, Michael
yellow fever
Yenbo
Yorktown
Younghusband, Francis
Z
Zambia (
see
: Northern Rhodesia)
Zambia
ZANLA (Zimbabwean National Liberation Army)
ZANU (Zimbabwean African National Union)
Zanzibar
ZAPU (Zimbabwean African People's Union)
Zimbabwe (
see
: Southern Rhodesia)
Zionists–94, 337
ZIPRA (Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army)
Zululand
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