at the empire's peak, the British ruled around a quarter of the land on Earth. However, there is a small silver lining for Queen Elizabeth: She remains the monarch in 15 Commonwealth nations in ...

151; -- If Scots vote for independence from the United Kingdom Thursday, the monarchy would lose not only the land of Scotch ... showing the “British Empire” at one of its peak periods.

From India, further expansion was undertaken through Asia, and by 1913 the British Empire was the largest to have ever existed. It covered around 25% of the world's land surface, including large ...

At its peak, the British Empire covered around a quarter of the Earth's total land area. I grew up with lots of Ghanaian influences around me, including certain foods and music I was born in ...

More Getty For more than a century, the empire was hailed as the foremost global power. At its peak in 1921, the British ruled a ... a quarter of Earth's total land area. The late queen came ...

At its height in 1922, the British empire governed a fifth of the world's population and a quarter of the world's total land area. Although the proponents of Empire say it brought various economic ...

"The chart below shows the geographic size of the British Empire going back to 1860," writes Dalio. "Note how it rose from 1860 until 1920, flatted out until 1950 and then collapsed. By comparing ...

At its height in 1922 the British Empire governed a fifth of the world’s population and a quarter of the world’s total land area, but its legacy divides opinion. Common criticisms of the ...

On May 5 1900, Albert Ellis, acting on behalf of the British Empire, made a deal with the inhabitants of the Pacific atoll known then as Ocean Island. In exchange for an annual payment of £50 in ...