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TWH British Empire
Five British Empires
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History
7th Grade
12/24/2013

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Black Hole of Calcutta
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146 British subjects imprisoned in tiny cell; 23 survived
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Boer war (1899-1902)
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War to drive former Dutch settlers from Transvaal/Orange Free State to which they had migrated in Great Trek (1837)
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Clive of India
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defeated French backed prince in Battle of Plassey (1757) to establish British Empire (Raj) in India
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Quebec
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Beseiged and taken by James Wolfe (1759)
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Australia
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discovered by Capt. James Cook, 1768. Colony established for convicts near Botany Bay, 1788
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