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The League brought the issue of imperial federation to the attention of the public throughout the empire. It had a concrete accomplishment in the calling of the First Colonial Conference in 1887 at the time of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. The League sent deputations to two successive Prime Minister, Salisbury and Gladstone. While Salisbury ...
Map showing the British Empire in 1886 (before expansion in Africa) The Imperial Federation was a series of proposals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to create a federal union to replace the existing British Empire, presenting it as an alternative to colonial imperialism.
Imperial Federation League; Metadata. This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.
It refers to the large number of nearly sovereign small and medium-sized secular and ecclesiastical principalities and free imperial cities, some of which were little larger than a single town or the surrounding grounds of the monastery of an Imperial abbey. League of cities is Military alliance and mutual assistance strengthened the position ...
Coats of Arms of the Free Imperial Cities (of 1605) – part 1 Coats of Arms of the Free Imperial Cities (of 1605) – part 2 (two top rows only). In many of these coats of arms, an eagle reflects the direct association with the Holy Roman Emperor, whose own standard was that of an imperial eagle.
The Swabian League (German: Schwäbischer Bund) was a military alliance of imperial estates – imperial cities, prelates, principalities and knights – principally in the territory of the early medieval stem duchy of Swabia established in 1488.
The British Empire League was a society founded by Lord Avebury (1834-1913), Lord Roberts (1832-1914) and Lord Strathcona (1820-1914) in London in 1895 with the aim of securing permanent unity for the British Empire. [1] [2] It was successor to the former Imperial Federation League, which had broken up in 1893. [3]
Imperial co-operation, Naval defence, Pacific telegraph cable, Royal title The 1887 Colonial Conference met in London in 1887 on the occasion of Queen Victoria 's Golden Jubilee . It was organised at the behest of the Imperial Federation League in hopes of creating closer ties between the colonies, the Dominion of Canada and the United Kingdom.