History Essays

Britain’s expansion in East and West Africa is attributed to various factors. The ‘men on the spot,’ such as Goldie and Mackinnon, played a significant role, but other factors cannot be ignored. Foreign competition has often been a decisive factor in many countries’ histories. It was also likely a driving force behind the Scramble for […]

“The Charge of The Light Brigade” and “The Defence of Lucknow” are two notable poems written by Lord Alfred Tennyson one of Britain’s finest poet laureates who lived during the 19th century. These two poems are based on two different battles which the Britons faced and fought with bravery and loyalty. Within this essay I […]

The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28th 1919 and put an official end to one of the most terrible and brutal wars the planet had ever seen. The signing of the treaty was taken to mean as the first step to an era of peace and prosperity for the entire globe, and most […]

Diverse historians conceive various ideas about Anglo-Germanic relations between 1890 and 1914 and who accounts for it. However, one can receive understanding and knowledge from historical sources written by various individuals. It is arguable that Germanic attitudes and policies were responsible for the steady decline of Anglo-Germanic relations. Evidently in Source 3: Joseph Chamberlain seems […]

I think the Russia played the biggest part in Napoleons downfall.Russian and England where the only coutrhat Napoleon could not capture. Although unlike Britain, where he could take over but he had other problems, Russia was a difficult country to control, it was too big. The cold was also a problem for Napoleon as nearly […]

The Argentine invasion of the British controlled Falkland Islands in April 1982 transformed the South Atlantic into a grand military battlefield that would captivate the world’s attention for the next seventy four days (Gibran, 2007:5). The War raised a number of compelling issues within the realm of international relations including territorial conflict and the continuous […]

How did Britain attempt to restructure its colonial empire from 1688 to 1763? Were the years of the early eighteenth century a period of “salutary neglect? ” Britain attempted to restructure its colonial empire from 1688 to 1763. One of various attempts was constructing a more coherent administration. In 1696, a professional Board of Trade […]

Introduction * To the British. as to people in the remainder of the universe. imperialism’s aureate age is now considered a discoloration on human history. an epoch of bondage and racism and the loot of native lands and peoples. The impression that imperialism is inherently evil. and that no imperium can be a good imperium. […]

The colonisation of India and the huge transportation of wealth that moved from the latter to Britain were critical to the success of the British Empire. In fact. the Viceroy of British India in 1894 called India “the pivot of our Empire …” I examine the effects of the Industrial Revolution on the subcontinent. Besides […]

China’s most humiliating defeat was war. During the early nineteenth century, England was deeply involved in the illicit opium trade. This era in European history is widely regarded as disgraceful and malicious, possibly only surpassed by the atrocities committed during the Third Reich in the twentieth century. By the 1830s, England had become the leading […]

The Boston Massacre remains one of the ugliest incidents that occurred during the early days of the American colonies. What the Boston Massacre entailed was several British soldiers, responding to taunts by American citizens, opened fire on the unarmed crowd killing five people, one of whom was Crispus Attucks, a freed slave who had been […]

According to Carp, historians consider that the American Revolutionary War, except for the Vietnam War,  was the longest war Americans ever fought and considered a complex event in that it contained many different wars. It was, first, a war for national independence where colonies have successfully rebelled against an imperial power.

During the 1800s and early 1900s, a wave of imperialism swept over Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The Western nations, pursuing new raw materials, established control, and became very powerful. The non-Western world obtained many benefits, such as industrialization and public education. While imperialism proved beneficial, it also resulted in warfare, racism, economic discrimination, […]

Assess the argument that Germany should be held largely or solely responsible for the outbreak of World War One. The extent of which Germany should be held responsible for the outbreak of World War one is debatable. One could argue that Germany and her aggressive and competitive nature towards the other European powers, highlighted by […]

After the Berlin conference in 1884, imperialism was introduced. European countries conquered areas of Africa, and then took advantage of its people and land. All but two countries were colonized. The colonized countries of Africa each reacted differently to European actions during the scramble for Africa. African countries began to counter-claim these threats with violent, […]

Spoken English is quite opposite to written English because when we are writing, we have time to think whether a word is appropriate, if the tenses are correct and so on. While spoken English is totally on the contrary, our words, phrases, and tenses should be dealt with unconsciously and immediately. There are many ways […]

The Ottoman empire, once a dominant power in the Mediterranean region renowned for its contributions to society, went through a rapid and significant decline. To truly understand the importance of this event, it is essential to have a brief understanding of the empire’s rise and the drastic change that ultimately led to its collapse. The […]

Tipoo’s Tiger is symbolic of the clash between the East and West, with India being representative of the East and Europe embodying the West. The tiger serves as an icon for Indian strength, portrayed devouring a British soldier. Despite its historical roots in India, this relic currently resides in London at the Victoria and Albert […]

In the three decades after the Berlin Conference on Africa (1884-1885), European powers occupied and colonized areas in Africa . This period was also known as the Scramble for Africa . The Scramble for Africa affected the natives of Africa socially in many different ways. For one, some native African groups were against the white […]

There has been much historiography concerning the development of the Cold War and its impact on British imperial policy. The Second World War had drained the nation’s wealth tremendously and a led to a geopolitical transformation where instead of Germany challenging the British Empire; the Soviet Union was now challenging America for global dominance. However, […]

In 1899, significant changes occurred as the 20th century began. Europe was recovering from a global economic crisis called the ‘Long Depression’ that started in Vienna, Austria in 1873 and ended in 1896. The British Empire had held dominance for a long time during this period. While other nations and empires were trying to gain […]

During the late Seventeenth and then the Eighteenth Century, the countries of Western Europe were going through an Industrial Revolution that would see their economies and societies radically transform due to industrialisation and an increase in foreign trade. China is traditionally seen as being left out of this or even isolating itself from the Western […]