The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire by Crocker III, H.W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Praise Title Page Dedication Epigraph Part I - RULE BRITANNIA

Chapter 1 - THE ENDURING EMPIRE Chapter 2 - MR. POTTER’S EMPIRE

Part II - NORTH AMERICA

Chapter 3 - CALLING THE NEW WORLD INTO EXISTENCE TO REDRESS THE BALANCE OF THE OLD

An Empire of Liberty Plunder and Plantations We Want You for the New World “Setting the World on Fire” Imperial Summit: Wolfe at Quebec An Empire of Their Own An Imperial Family Quarrel The Politics of Prudence The Empire Strikes Back

Chapter 4 - SIR FRANCIS DRAKE (1540–1596)

Francis Drake: Preacher’s Kid Turned Pirate Raider of the Spanish Main The Terror of All the Seas Armada!

Chapter 5 - SIR HENRY MORGAN (1635–1684)

“More Used to the Pike Than the Book” Vice Admiral of Buccaneers The Governor’s Deputy

Chapter 6 - CHARLES CORNWALLIS, 1ST MARQUESS CORNWALLIS (1738–1805)

The Reluctant General Yorktown A Passage to India

Part III - IRELAND AND JOHN BULL’S OTHER EUROPEAN ISLANDS

Chapter 7 - THE SHAMROCK AND THE ROCK

The Arrival of the English Going Native Ireland: England’s Tijuana War, War, and More War Good Time Charlie and the Siege of Derry Reform and Famine Independence: Gladstone and Parnell; Lloyd George and De Valera “Ulster Will Fight; Ulster Will Be Right!” The Gunman’s Republic Irish Peace at Last Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, and the Ionian Islands

Chapter 8 - SIR WALTER RALEIGH (1554–1618)

Virginia’s Founder In Search of El Dorado

Chapter Nine - ARTHUR WELLESLEY, THE 1ST DUKE OF WELLINGTON (1769–1852)

Napoleon’s Nemesis Pillar of State

Chapter 10 - SIR CHARLES NAPIER (1782–1855)

Peccavi

Part IV - INDIA

Chapter 11 - THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN

Avenging the Black Hole of Calcutta An Evolving Empire The Great Indian Mutiny Kim’s Commission Gandhi versus Churchill

Chapter 12 - ROBERT CLIVE, 1ST BARON CLIVE (1725–1774)

From Clerk to Hero The Prize of Plassey Ennobled but Not Respected

Chapter 13 - GEORGE CURZON, 1ST MARQUESS CURZON OF KEDLESTON (1859–1925)

The Great Viceroy Curzon’s Age of Lead

Chapter 14 - LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, 1ST EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA (1900–1979)

Young Mountbatten Labour’s Viceroy

Part V - AFRICA

Chapter 15 - THE DARK CONTINENT

Ashanti Lord Lugard and “Indirect Rule” Cry, the Beloved Country The Boer War The Wind of Change

Chapter 16 - GENERAL CHARLES GEORGE GORDON (1833–1885)

The Ever Victorious Army Gordon of Khartoum

Chapter 17 - HERBERT KITCHENER, 1ST EARL KITCHENER (1850–1916)

Secret Agent in the Sudan Omdurman Battling the Boers Kitchener: The Great Recruiting Poster

Chapter 18 - IAN DOUGLAS SMITH (1919–2007)

UDI Après Smith le Déluge

Part VI - MIDDLE AND NEAR EAST

Chapter 19 - THE LOVE OF DESOLATE PLACES

Passport to Suez Denouement at Suez The Kingdom of Iraq The Power behind the Peacock Throne Between Two Ancient Peoples: Arabia and Palestine Adventures in Aden

Chapter 20 - SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (1821–1890)

Soldier and Spy The Great Adventure Cannibals and a Knighthood

Chapter 21 - T. E. LAWRENCE (1888–1935)

Revolt in the Desert Lawrence of Arabia Maker of the Middle East

Chapter 22 - LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR JOHN BAGOT GLUBB (1897–1986)

Glubb of Mesopotamia The End of Glubb Pasha

Part VII - AUSTRALIA AND THE FAR EAST

Chapter 23 - AUSSIE RULES

Imperial Australia Australia at War The Kiwi Connection Hong Kong An Empire of Capitalists, Rajahs, and Planters

Chapter 24 - SIR THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES (1781–1826) and SIR JAMES BROOKE (1803–1868)

The White Rajah

Chapter 25 - FIELD MARSHAL SIR THOMAS BLAMEY (1884–1951)

Australia Will Be There MacArthur’s General

Chapter 26 - FIELD MARSHAL SIR GERALD TEMPLER (1898–1979)

Setting Europe Ablaze—and Sacking Konrad Adenauer The Tiger of Malaya

Part VIII - RECESSIONAL

Chapter 27 - WINSTON CHURCHILL’S LAMENT

An Imperial Life

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