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	British Territories in China (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces)
		The British maintained settlements and concessions in Tientsin, Shanghai and Wei Hai Wei (leased 1898).
		The British seized Hong Kong Island in 1839 and Chinese cession was confirmed by Treaty of Nanking 1842.
		The Colours of the Tientsin British Municipal Emergency Corps, by Phil Abbey.
	www.regiments.org /nations/eastasia/china.htm (303 words)

	British Empire - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Its territories were scattered across every continent and ocean, and it was described with some truth as "the empire on which the sun never sets." Arguably, its zenith was achieved in the 1890s and 1900s.
		British withdrawal from the southern and eastern parts of Africa was complicated by the region's white settler populations: Kenya had already provided an example in the Mau Mau Uprising of violent conflict exacerbated by white landownership and reluctance to concede majority rule.
		Territory between the 13 Colonies and the Mississippi River, with conflicting claims between the Colonies, and which is now Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan, part of Wisconsin, and part of Louisiana.
	open-encyclopedia.com /British_Empire (5140 words)

	British overseas territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A United Kingdom overseas territory (formerly known as a dependent territory or earlier as a crown colony) is a territory that is under the sovereignty and formal control of the United Kingdom but is not part of the United Kingdom proper (almost exclusively Great Britain and Northern Ireland).
		Overseas territories should be distinguished from crown dependencies (the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, which have a different constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom), and protectorates (which were not formally under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom).
		Queen Elizabeth II is head of state in the overseas territories in her role as Queen of the United Kingdom, not in right of each territory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_territories (1477 words)

	Learn more about British Empire in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The British Empire, which in the early decades of the 20th century covered nearly 30 million square kilometress with a population of 400-500 million people (roughly a quarter of the world's population), was the second most extensive area under a single country's rule in history, after the Mongol Empire of the 13th century.
		Its territories were scattered across every continent and ocean, and it was described with some truth as "the empire on which the sun never sets".
		The 1920s saw a rapid transformation of the status of the self-governing territories, leading to the 1926 Balfour Declaration and the 1931 Statute of Westminster, which provided formal equality of the Dominions with Britain, which is seen as the beginning of the British Commonwealth.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /b/br/british_empire.html (1117 words)

	British Overseas Territories Act 2002 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It further grants, from 21 May 2002, British citizenship to anyone holding British Overseas Territories citizenship on that date (with the exception of those solely connected with the Cyprus Sovereign Base Areas), whereas previously this was only available to people from Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands.
		Those acquiring British overseas territories citizenship after 21 May 2002 may usually be registered as British citizens under s4A of the 1981 Act.
		While citizens of all the Overseas Territories now have the right of abode in the UK, this is not reciprocal, as UK citizens visiting Overseas Territories are subject to local immigration controls, and require residence or work permits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Overseas_Territories_Act_2002 (192 words)

	ipedia.com: British Empire Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The British Empire, in the early decades of the 20th century, held sway over a population of 400-500 million people (roughly a quarter of the world's population), covered nearly 30 million square kilometres, (roughly two-fifths of the world's land area).
		The overseas British Empire-- in the sense of British oceanic exploration and settlement outside of Europe and the British and Irish Isles-- was rooted in the pioneering maritime policies of King Henry VII, who reigned 1485-1509.
		Fear of Russia's centuries-old southward expansion was a further factor in British policy: in 1878 Britain took control of Cyprus as a base for action against a Russian attack on the Ottoman Empire, after having taken part in the Crimean War 1854-56 and invading Afghanistan to forestall an increase in Russian influence there.
	www.ipedia.com /british_empire.html (4970 words)

	Sikh History:
		It was the intention of the British government to protect British territories, and punish "the violators of treaties and the disturbers of public peace." The Proclamation also declared the possessions of Maharaja Duleep Singh on the left bank of the Sutlej confiscated and annexed to the British territories.
		Subjects of the British government, who shall continue in the service of the Lahore State, shall be liable to have their property on this side of the Sutlej confiscated, and have themselves declared to be aliens and the enemies of the British government.
		Movements of British troops could scarcely be concealed from the Khalsa army panchayats, who insisted on the surrender of Raja Suchet Singh's treasure buried in Firozpur, restoration of the village of Maurati, and a free passage for troops into their Sutlej possession which had been virtually seized by the British.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /events/hardinge.htm (438 words)

	British Antarctic Territory - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		British Antarctic Territory, dependency of the United Kingdom, comprising the former dependencies of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) south of...
		British Colonies, Territories, and Protectorates : territories in Antarctica
		British Empire : colonies and territories in Antarctica
	encarta.msn.com /British_Antarctic_Territory.html (210 words)

	The British Empire
		Fighting between the British and French colonies in North America was endemic in the first half of the 18th century, but the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which ended the Seven Years' War (known as the French and Indian War in North America), left Britain dominant in Canada.
		Elsewhere, British influence in the Far East expanded with the development of the Straits Settlements and the federated Malay states, and in the 1880s protectorates were formed over Brunei and Sarawak.
		The resulting chain of British territories stretching from South Africa northward to Egypt realized an enthusiastic British public's idea of an African empire extending "from the Cape to Cairo." By the end of the 19th century, the British Empire comprised nearly one-quarter of the world's land surface and more than one-quarter of its total population.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /imperialism/notes/britishempire.html (1754 words)

	British Empire. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In India, from the 1740s to 1763, the British East India Company and its French counterpart were engaged in a military and commercial rivalry in which the British were ultimately victorious.
		The British North America Act of 1867 inaugurated a pattern of devolution followed in most of the European-settled colonies by which Parliament gradually surrendered its direct governing powers; thus Australia and New Zealand followed Canada in becoming self-governing dominions.
		Imperial contributions had considerably strengthened the British war effort (more than 200,000 men from the overseas empire died in the war; the dominions and India signed the Versailles Treaty and joined the League of Nations), but at the same time expectations were raised among colonial populations that an increased measure of self-government would be granted.
	www.bartleby.com /65/br/BritEmp.html (1581 words)

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		It was captured by the British in 1761 and formally ceded to Britain with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
		British Guiana was granted independence within the Commonwealth on 26th May 1966, to become Guyana and a republic in 1970.
		The British Virgin Islands were part of the colony of the Leeward Islands from 1871 until 1956 and remain a self-governing Dependent Territory of Britain.
	cs.indiana.edu /~gkandasw/personal/numismatics/britishCaribbean.html (1436 words)

	FAQs: The British Overseas Territories Act Foreign & Commonwealth Office
		British Overseas citizenship (BOC) is held by people who do not have sufficient connections with any of the present Overseas Territories or Britain itself to enable them to qualify for BDTC or BC.
		British citizens from the Overseas Territories will not be subject to UK immigration controls and will therefore be able to come to the UK for purposes of leisure, study and employment without gaining prior permission.
		British citizens resident outside the UK/EU are not subject to the direct taxation regimes operated by the UK or other Member States of the European Union.
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1013618138355 (3082 words)

	Excite France - Voyage - Europe - British Overseas Territories - Resorts and Excursions
		British Overseas Territories: From 1998, what were once known as British Dependent Territories became United Kingdom Overseas Territories, enjoying the same rights as nationals of Gibraltar and the Falklands Islands, with full British citizenship and residence within the UK.
		British Crown Dependencies: These include the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, which are dependencies of the British Crown whilst exercising considerable self-government in domestic affairs.
		In 1993, the British government announced an extension of its territorial jurisdiction of the waters surrounding the islands from 12 to 200 nautical miles, in response to the Argentine government’s decision to sell fishing licences for the region’s waters.
	www.excite.fr /voyage/guides/europe/british_overseas_territories/ResortsExcursions (2024 words)

	20 centuries of British Empires
		It is thus reasonable to talk of the British Empire from 1603, and it is usual to think of this as the trans-oceanic dependencies of an Insular state.
		British expansion in South and East Asia was mostly over by 1886, by which time the focus of attention had moved to Africa.
		However, the British monarch remained (and still remains, except for South Africa), the monarch of these territories, and it was not until 1947-9 that the dominions established separate citizenships from the UK.
	www.cit.gu.edu.au /~s285238/BritishEmpire/Britain-20centuries.html (6222 words)

	Manas: History and Politics, British India
		The consolidation of British rule after the initial military victories fell to Warren Hastings, who did much to dispense with the fiction that the Mughal Emperor was still the sovereign to whom the Company was responsible.
		British rule was justified, in part, by the claims that the Indians required to be civilized, and that British rule would introduce in place of Oriental despotism and anarchy a reliable system of justice, the rule of law, and the notion of 'fair play'.
		This was by far the greatest threat posed to the British since the beginnings of their acquisition of an empire in India in 1757, and within the space of a few weeks in May large swathes of territory in the Gangetic plains had fallen to the rebels.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/British/BrIndia.html (1020 words)

	The Monarchy Today > Queen and Commonwealth > Overseas territories
		An overseas territory is a territory belonging by settlement, conquest or annexation to the British, Australian or New Zealand Crown.
		Hong Kong, a former overseas territory held by Britain on a long lease, was handed back to China on 1 July 1997, in a ceremony attended by The Prince of Wales.
		In British overseas territories, The Queen is represented by Governors, or in some cases by Commissioners, Administrators or Residents, who are responsible to the British Government for the government of the countries concerned.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page4930.asp (164 words)

	[26 May 1999] GA/COL/3001 : 'LITMUS TEST' FOR SELF-DETERMINATION, SELF-GOVERNANCE RECOMMENDED AT DECOLONIZATION MEETING ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The British claim was that the Territories were well- placed to play their part in the global community.
		While the British stated that the new Territories were founded on the principle of self-determination, the new millennium would see a tightening up on the Non-Self-Governing Territories, with closer scrutiny and micro-management.
		A number of British Territories had made explicit statements in recent years that their goal was independence -- others wished to achieve it in tandem with economic development.
	www.un.org /news/Press/docs/1999/19990526.GACO3001.html (1866 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Indo-China
		That all these territories were once inhabited in the mighty Khmer empire seems established by the numerous existing monuments and inscriptions, by the striking similarity between the constitutions of Cambodia and Siam, and by the many resemblances between the characteristics, legends, and languages of the Khmers and Ciampas.
		In 1658 the King of Cambodia was defeated by the united Annamites and Ciampas on the northern frontiers of Cochin China, and compelled to acknowledge himself;f as Annam's vassal.
		Cambodia, the centre of the ancient Khmer empire, is bounded on the north and north-west by Siam and the Laos territories; on the east by Annam; on the south by Cochin China; on the south-west by the Gulf of Siam.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07765a.htm (15450 words)

	British Virgin Islands - Island Sun Newspaper
		The British Overseas Territories Bill, which will make acquisition of such citizenship possible, was in the works since 1998 and stemming from that was a White Paper on a remodelled relationship between the U.K. and its Territories.
		With a British passport, citizens of Overseas Territories would be able to, among other things, live and work in the U.K. and the European Union without any restrictions.
		British policy is to give independence to those Overseas Territories that want it and not to force it on those that do not.
	www.islandsun.com /2002-March/08032002/local4-v7i07.html (322 words)

	Unasylva - Vol. 1, No. 2 - Exportable Timber Resources of the British Colonial Territories
		The areas with a clear exportable surplus of hardwoods are British Guiana, British Honduras, the Gold Coast, Nigeria, the Malayan Union, North Borneo, Sarawak, and the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
		In some British Colonial territories there is a large area of tropical rain forest, but this area is being gradually reduced by shifting cultivation under which the inhabitants clear the forest for farming purposes and, after exhausting the soil by continuous cultivation, proceed to clear a further area of forest.
		The general object of British colonial forest policy is to reserve an adequate area of forest to secure the conservation of the soil and thereafter to provide a sustained yield of timber for local needs and for export.
	www.fao.org /docrep/x5340e/x5340e0c.htm (3071 words)

	DfES, News Centre
		The proposal means that from 2007/08, students from specified territories will be charged the home fee rate for their Further Education and undergraduate degree courses at colleges and universities in England.
		Because some of the overseas territories of EU countries are themselves in the EU, students from there qualify for the home fee rates, but students from Britain’s Overseas Territories are treated as international students and are charged higher fees.
		Under the 2002 British Overseas Territories Act British citizenship was extended to all people in the British Overseas Territories who qualified for it on the basis that they were British Overseas Territories citizens (BOTCs) from particular territories.
	www.dfes.gov.uk /pns/DisplayPN.cgi?pn_id=2006_0165 (548 words)

	British Overseas Territories
		The British Overseas Territories (formerly known as a dependent territories or earlier as a crown colonies) is a territory that is under the sovereignty and formal control of the United Kingdom but is not part of the United Kingdom proper (Great Britain and Northern Ireland).
		Crown dependencies are possessions of the British Crown, as opposed to overseas territories or colonies of the United Kingdom.
		Its territory and population are primarily situated on the island of Great Britain, but it also shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland on the island of Ireland.
	www.britlink.org (1014 words)

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		Of the various classes of British nationality, all except British citizenship and British Overseas Territories citizenship are residual categories.
		All categories of British nationality can be renounced by a declaration made to the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
		A person ceases to be a British national on the date that the declaration of renunciation is registered by the Home Secretary.
	www.lycos.com /info/british-nationality-law.html (243 words)

	Report of the Constitutional Commission - Chapter 10 (part two)
		However, notwithstanding subsequent amendments to the Constitution, the term “British Subject” remains in a few provisions, most notably, section 28 dealing with the qualifications for elected membership of the Legislative Council, and section 31 dealing with the qualifications for voters.
		Alternatively, the requirement for one to have that class of British citizenship, as one of the qualifications for elected membership and also for voting, ought to be removed altogether.
		However, it must be remembered that many persons qualifying for registration as voters in the Territory, are now also full “British Citizens.” It is the Commission’s view, that the only status for eligibility to be registered to vote should be that provided under section 2(2) of the Constitution, that is, Belonger status.
	www.dgo.gov.vg /index.php?mpageid=63 (3775 words)

	Border & Immigration Agency \| BN1 - British citizenship
		British Overseas citizenship, for those citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies without connections with either the United Kingdom or the British overseas territories.
		British overseas territories citizens, British Overseas citizens, British subjects under the 1981 Act, British Nationals (Overseas) and British protected persons) may apply to be registered as British citizens if they have lived in the United Kingdom for 5 years or been employed in Crown service under the government of a British overseas territory.
		British overseas territories citizens who have that citizenship by connection with a qualifying territory (see Note 3) and have not previously renounced British citizenship.
	www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk /applying/nationality/advice/bn1?view=Standard (2722 words)

	British Overseas Territories Bill - 2001
		There are fourteen British overseas territories: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, St Helena and Dependencies, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
		British citizenship will mean that British Dependent Territories citizens will have the right of abode in the United Kingdom and the right of free movement and residence, and with it the opportunity to work in European Union member states.
		In fact, the rest of the 150,000 souls in British Overseas territories have Montserrat to thank for whatever benefits the new status brings; for it was our crisis and plight that dramatized the disadvantageous situation under which supposed British subjects lived in these colonial outposts, and led in part to the new development.
	www.montserratreporter.org /botbill (2633 words)

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