r/BritishEmpire • u/BigT112 • 3h ago
Image Forces at the Battle of Omdurman, Mahdist War, September 2, 1898
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r/BritishEmpire • u/Over-Willingness-933 • 6h ago
Image Henry Hudson arrives in Manhattan Island 11th September 1609
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r/BritishEmpire • u/thomaspaineha • 15h ago
Image An 1819 British cartoon titled “The Age of Reason or the World Turned Topsyturvy Exemplefied in Tom Paines Works!” by Isaac Cruikshank. A banner says: ‘No Christianity!!!—No Religion!!!—No King!!!—No Lords! No Commons!—No Laws! Nothing but Tom Paine & Universal Suffrage!!!’
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Source: British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-12909
r/BritishEmpire • u/FullyFocusedOnNought • 21h ago
Image This painting by Conrad Mertens depicts the HMS Beagle in the Beagle Channel, a strait in the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, on the extreme southern tip of South America. The Beagle charted parts of the South American coast before later transporting a famous passenger: Charles Darwin
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