The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (115 page)

Chanak crisis (1922)

Chandra Sahib

Chapman, George

charities, emigration help

Charles I, King

Charles II, King

Charles Edward, Prince (the ‘Young Pretender’)

Chartists

Chatfield, Admiral Lord

Chatham, Lord
see
Pitt, William

Chelmsford, 2nd Baron

Chelmsford, 1st Viscount

Chesapeake Bay

Chesney, Sir George

Chesterton, G.K.

Chetwode, General Sir Philip

Chiang Kai-Shek, General

Chicago Tribune

Childers, Erskine

Chile

China; trade; wars with Britain; Opium Wars; suppression of piracy; Britain dominates commerce; ‘new imperialism’; Sino-Japanese War; Boxer Rebellion; British troops in; American post-war plans for; Communism; and Hong Kong

Chinese: emigration; indentured labourers in South Africa

Chinese Eastern Railway

Chinese Labour Corps

Ching dynasty

Chinkiang

Chirau, Chief

Choiseul, Etienne-François, Duc de

Christianity; missionaries

Chums

Church of England

Church of Scotland

Churchill, Winston;
Malakand Field Force
; in the Sudan; and idea of imperial federation; and tariff reform; Gallipoli campaign; and Ireland; and Egypt; and the Kurds; and the Middle East; air control of Iraq and Jordan; support for Zionism; damns Amritsar massacre; and Indian independence; misjudges Japanese; and the Munich agreement; imperialism; Second World War; Atlantic Charter; friendship with Roosevelt; and SEAC; Yalta and Potsdam conferences; Operation Culverin; Cold War; Iranian crisis; British occupation of Canal Zone ended

cinema

Civil War

Clarkson, Thomas

class

Claydon House, Buckinghamshire

Clemenceau, Georges

Cleon

Clerk, Henry

Clinton, Sir Henry

Clive, Robert

Clunies-Ross, John

Clydeside

Cobden, Richard

Cochin China

Cochrane, Lieutenant Charles

Cockerell, Sir Charles

Cocos-Keeling islands

Codington, Sir Christopher

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste

Cold War

Colden, Cadwallader

Coleridge, Samuel

collective security

Collingwood, Admiral

Collins, Michael

Colonial Development Acts

Colonial Development Board

Colonial Office: suppresses slave uprising in British Guiana; and Australian expansionism; political development of South Africa; and Northern Rhodesia; and East Africa; Kenya policy; and West Africa; First World War; racial prejudice; Arab Revolt; and the Middle East; and documentary films; in Second World War; Atlantic Charter; post-war plans; and press freedom; and colonial self-government; and the Central African Federation

colour bar

Commerson, Philibert

Committee of Imperial Defence

Committee of Union and Progress (Turkey)

Commonwealth (1649–60)

Commonwealth conference (1937)

Commonwealth conference (1946)

Commonwealth of Nations; transformation of empire to; racism; as surrogate empire; and the Suez war; trade with; attitudes to; present situation

Commonwealth Office

Commonwealth prime ministers’ conference (1956)

Communism: subversion; in India; Cold War; Malayan guerrilla campaign; anti-colonial propaganda; and decolonisation

Communist International (Comintern)

Compagnie des Indes

Compagnie van Verre

Company of Royal Adventurers

Conflans, Hubert de Brienne, Baron

Congo;
see also
Zaire

Congo Free State

Congreve, General Walter

conscription

Conservative party: foreign policy; Joseph Chamberlain splits; and tariff reform; and Irish Home Rule; attitudes to imperialism; appeasement; and the Commonwealth; and the Middle East; Cold War; Iranian crisis; British occupation of Canal Zone ended; and the Suez war; decolonisation policies; and nuclear weapons; African policies; attitude to Commonwealth under Mrs Thatcher

Continental Congress

convicts: North American colonies; West Indies; transportation to Australia; in West Africa

Cook, Captain James

Cooke, Joseph

Coolidge, Calvin

Cooper, Duff

Cordage, Operation

Corn Laws

Cornwallis, General Sir Charles

Coronel

Corsica

Cortés, Hernán

Cossacks

cotton

Cowper, William

Cranworth, Lady

Cranworth, Lord

Creech-Jones, Arthur

Crete

cricket

Crimean War (1854–56)

Cripps, Sir Stafford

Cromer, Lord

Crompton, Richmal

Cromwell, Oliver

Cronjé, Piet

Crossman, Richard

Cruisers and Convoys Act (1708)

Cuba

Cuddadur

Culverin, Operation

Cunard, Nancy

Cunliffe-Lister, Sir Philip

Cupid’s Cove, Newfoundland

Curaçao

Curragh Incident

Curtin, John

Curtis, Lionel

Curzon, Marquess; Viceroy of India; First World War; and Ireland; and Egyptian nationalism; Middle East policy; and Indian independence

Cyprus

Czechoslovakia

Daily Express

Daily Graphic

Daily Herald

Daily Mail

Daily News

Daily Telegraph

Daily Worker

Dalhousie, Lord

Dalrymple, Stair

Danby, Earl of

Dane, John

Darbey, John

Dardanelles

Darfur

Darlan, Admiral Francois

Dartmouth, Lord

Darwin, Charles

Dayan, General Moshe

De Gaulle, General Charles

De Valera, Eamon

Declaration of Independence

decolonisation

Decouer, Captain

Defence Expenditure Agreement (1940)

Defence Requirements Committee

Defoe, Daniel

Delagoa Railway

Delcassé, Théophile

Delhi

Demerara

Denman, Lord

Denmark

Derby, Lord

Dervishes

Deutsche-See-Handels-Gesellschaft

Devastation,
HMS

Devlin, Lord

Dhillon, Captain Garbaksh Singh

Diamond Jubilee (1897)

Dickens, Charles

Dieskau, Johann Herman von

Dilke, Sir Charles

Dillon, Michael

Diqna, Uthman

Directorate of Army Education

disarmament, 1920s

Discovery

Disraeli, Benjamin

Djibouti

Dobbie, James

Dr Barnado’s

documentary films

Dodecanese Islands

Dolphin

Dominica

Dominican Republic

dominions: self-government; and idea of imperial federation; defences; First World War; conscription; and Irish ‘Troubles’; India offered dominion status; sporting tours; and the League of Nations; prelude to Second World War; and the Cold War;
see also individual countries

Domville, Rear-Admiral Barry

Dönitz, Admiral von

Donne, John

Dorman-Smith, Sir Reginald

Dost Muhammad

Douglas-Home, Alec

Doyle, Sir Francis

Drake, Sir Francis

Drayton, Thomas

Dreadnought,
HMS

Dreadnought-class battleships

Driberg, Tom

Dufferin, Lord

Dulles, John Foster

Dumfries

Duncan, Admiral Lord

Duncombe, John

Dundas, Henry

Dunmore, Lord

Dunsterville, Major-General Lionel

Dupleix, Joseph-François, Marquis

Duplessis, Maurice

Duquesne, Marquis

D’Urban, Sir Benjamin

Durham, Lord

Dutch East India Company

Dutch East Indies;
see also
Indonesia

Dutt, Palme

Dutt, Romesh Chunder

Dutton, Sir Richard

Dyer, Brigadier-General Reginald

East Africa

East India Company: textile trade; expansion of; directors as MPs; Tea Act (1773); power in India; Bengal War; conflicts with French; trade with China; autocratic paternalism; opium trade; tea trade; and James Brooke; dissolution

East Indies

Easter Rising (1916)

Economist

Eden, Sir Anthony; and the Arab Revolt; threatens to sink
Canarias
; on Chamberlain; and defence of Singapore; resignation as Foreign Secretary; Suez war; and Iranian crisis; Middle East policy; wants overthrow of Nasser

Eden, Lieutenant Archibald

Edgcombe, Captain Leonard

Edinburgh

Edinburgh, Philip, Duke of

Edmondson, Judge George

education: public schools; in India

Edward VII, King

Edward VIII, King

Edwardes, Herbert

Egypt; Napoleon invades; British occupation of; nationalism; Anglo-Egyptian War (1882); British occupation; importance of Nile to; France tries to regain interest in; independence movement; Communist infiltration; Anglo-Egyptian Treaty; Second World War; Suez war; importance in Cold War; British occupation of Canal Zone ended; July Revolution; Eden wants Nasser’s overthrow; Soviet influence

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

El Dorado

Elgin, Lord

Elizabeth I, Queen

Elizabeth II, Queen

Ellenborough, Lord

Elliot, Captain Charles

emigration: to North America; to dominions; to Britain

Empire Day

Empire Day League

Empire Flying Boat

Empire of India Exhibition (1895)

Empire Marketing Board

Endeavour

English Channel

entente cordiale

EOKA

Equatoria

Española

es-Said, Nuri

Essequibo

Essex,
USS

‘establishment’

Estaing, Comte d’

Ethiopia
see
Abyssinia

European Economic Community (EEC)

Evangelicals

Evans, Ernest

Evatt, H.V.

Evelyn, John

Eyre, Edward

Fabians

Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia

Faisal I, King of Iraq

Faisal II, King of Iraq

Falkland Islands

Falklands war (1982)

Fallis, Keith

Farquharson-Roberts, Brigadier M.F.

Faruq, King of Egypt

fascism

Fashoda

Fiddes, Sir George

Fielding, Henry

Fiji

films

Fink, Molly

First World War: patriotism; origins of; German naval rearmament; war-mongering; Royal Navy modernisation; defence of dominions; war declared; soldiers from the dominions; India in; conscription; post-war settlements; armistice; casualties; jingoism

Fisher, Admiral Lord

Fisher, Andrew

Fisher, H.A.L.

Fitzgerald, Don Philip

Fleetwood, Bishop

Fleming, Lieutenant

Florida

flying boats

Flynn, Errol

Foochow

Foot, Sir Hugh

Foot, Michael

Forbes, Brigadier John

Foreign Office

Formosa (Taiwan)

Fort Duquesne

Fox Russell

Foxe, John

France: North American interests; wars with Britain in eighteenth century; conflicts with Britain in North America; naval rearmament; and American War of Independence; North American fur trade; Indian interests; Napoleonic Wars; 19th-century relations with Britain; Franco-Prussian War; empire-building; Opium Wars; interest in Indo-China; ‘new imperialism’; and Egypt; contest for Central Africa; interest in West Africa;
entente cordiale
; First World War; Middle Eastern interests; manufacturing industry; battleships; Second World War; and Indo-China; Suez war; Algerian War

La France

Franco, General

Franco-Prussian War (1870–71)

Franklin, Benjamin

Franz-Ferdinand, Archduke

Fraser, Peter

Frederick II, King of Prussia

free trade

French, Field-Marshal Lord

French Congo

French Revolution

French Sahara

Frere, Sir Bartle

Freycinet, Charles de

Frobisher, Sir Martin

Fuad, King of Egypt

Fulani tribe

Fun

fur trade

Furse, Sir Ralph

Gage, Thomas (Dominican friar)

Gage, Lieutenant-General Thomas

Gaitskell, Hugh

Gallacher, Willie

Gallieni, Joseph Simon

Gallipoli

Gama, Vasco da

Gambia

Gammans, Captain Leonard

Gandhi, Mohandas; First World War; passive resistance; on Anglo-Irish treaty; background; importance of; in Second World War; ‘Quit India’ campaign; imprisonment; Indian independence

Garrick, David

Gaspée

Gates, General Horatio

General Belgrano

General Post Office

Gentleman’s Magazine

George II, King

George III, King; and the Seven Years War; North American colonies; and American independence; American War of Independence; and exploration of Pacific; idealisation of

George V, King; Indian tour; First World War; and Ireland; Christmas broadcasts; and British Empire Exhibition; Delhi durbar; Silver Jubilee

George VI, King

Germain, Lord George

German East Africa;
see also
Tanganyika

Germany: ‘new imperialism’; naval rearmament; interest in China; African colonies; contest for Central Africa; British war-mongering; origins of First World War; and Turkey; First World War; expulsion of Jews; manufacturing industry; reoccupies Rhineland; air power; appeasement of;
Blitzkrieg
; Wehrmacht; claims Sudetenland; Munich agreement; occupies Czechoslovakia; German-Soviet Pact; Second World War;
see also
Prussia