The Real Trouble Will Come With the 'Wake', Political Cartoon Representing International Force that put an end to the Boxer Rebellion in China, Puck...
Friendly power in Egypt, after the painting by W.C. Horsley. The 41st Welsh regiment marching through the Metwali gate in Cairo, Egypt in the 19th...
Map of the World showing the British Empire highlighted in red, London, 1886. The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates,...
"Take Your Choice", William McKinley raising U.S. Flag in the Philippines, and William Jennings Bryan chopping it down, with U.S. Flags flying over...
History repeats itself by Joseph Keppler, 1838-1894, artist 1885. Illustration shows Julius Caeser or a Roman centurion, in the background, tumbling...
Colonialism. Africa. Charles George Gordon . British General and Governor of Egyptian Sudan. A British exploration by Sudan. Engraving by Caton, "La...
Underneath a portrait of Queen Victoria, Lord Salisbury and Paul Cambon examine a map appendix to the Anglo-French Convention of 1898, also known as...
Chinese officials pulling down British flag on ship the Arrow. On 8 October 1856, Qing officials boared Hong Kong - registered Arrow and arrested...
Group of soldiers from the army of Abyssinia , carrying reinforced shields and rifles during the war with Italy.
View of the city of Batavia, 1754. The city of Batavia in the island of Java and capital of all the Dutch factories & settlements in the East Indies....
By 1900 China had signed a number of treaties with the Western Powers . Unequal treaty is the name given by the Chinese to these series of treaties...
The land council was a judicial body in the Dutch East Indies. It was the ordinary court for both indigenous people in civil and criminal cases and...
The Mandarin of the port of Haiphong with the director of police, 1883. . French Indochina was part of the French colonial empire in southeast Asia....
"Another Explosion at Hand", Political Cartoon Featuring William Jennings Bryan, using hot-air from his "Speeches", to inflate a Large Balloon...
Queen Victoria Reviewing the Army of the Empire at Aldershot, 1897: The March Past of the Colonials', . Colonial troops of the British Empire on...
Queen Victoria decorating officers engaged in Afghan and Zulu wars, at Windsor Castle, December 8, 1879', . Victoria bestows military honours on...
Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India, 1877: The Imperial Durbar at Delhi, New Year's Day', . The ceremony, at Coronation Park, Delhi, India,...
History repeats itself by Joseph Keppler, 1838-1894, artist 1885. Illustration shows Julius Caeser or a Roman centurion, in the background, tumbling...
The Great Turning Movement - Crossing the Riet', . British forces crossing the Riet River in South Africa during the Boer Wars . From "The Life and...
Greetings from Jamaica, laborers, early 20th century. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the term 'coolie' usually referred to an indentured...
French cartoon depicting events surrounding diplomatic efforts to convene the Algeciras Conference of 1906 took place in Algeciras, Spain, and lasted...
The British Empire, 1897'. 'British possessions shaded or underlined. Views of the principal Colonial towns are given on subsequent pages. Egypt...
Cecil Rhodes', , English-born South African entrepreneur and statesman, 1894-1907. Rhodes made his fortune in the Kimberley diamond mines, and formed...
The Women Loaded the Empty Guns', 1909. Armed conflict, first with the Matabele people under Mzilikazi in the area which was to become the Transvaal,...
The Pacification of the Indians, 1914. Col. Rondon trying on shirts in the far interior of Brazil. From The Beautiful Rio De Janeiro by Alured Gray...
Paul Doumer is received by the King of Thailand Chulalongkorn, or Rama V . Paul Doumer President of France from 13 June 1931 until his assassination....
French wounded evacuated by sea after France annexed Madagascar, in 1896 and declared the island a colony the following year, dissolving the Merina...
Russo-Japanese War . A General of the Russian division met an official of one of their regiments, accompanied by a few soldiers due to the casualties...
The First Italo-Ethiopian War . Italians in Abyssinia. Major Tommaso Salsa and Captain Annibale Anghera before the emperor of Ethiopia Menelik II in...
Contingent of armed frontier police from Sierra Leone at Chelsea Barracks in London, June 1897. The 15 men and one officer are due to represent the...
An Italian woman hands in her gold bracelet at the Rome headquarters for receiving contributions of gold and silver for the government after a plea...
Costumes of Germany, 1858. Women from Baden and Saxony, Bohemian woman, Coblentz woman, peasant man from near Hamburg with yoke and baskets, Bavarian...
Map of the Tirah Campaign', circa 1900. The Tirah expedition was an Indian frontier campaign from September 1897 to April 1898. Tirah is a...
'He did his duty. Will YOU do YOURS?' Poster of Field Marshal Frederick Roberts , 1st Earl Roberts, British general, 1916.<br/><br/> Frederick Sleigh...
''The Fighting Near Gilgit on the Northwestern Frontier of India - Colonel Durand and the Rajah Akbar Khan, holding a consultation in the orchard at...
Décret de la Convention nationale, du 27 juillet 1793: l'an second de la République Françoise, qui supprime les primes pour la traite des esclaves,...
