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By summer 1931 the world financial crisis began to overwhelm Britain; investors across the world started withdrawing their gold from London at the rate of £2½ million a day. [ 212 ] [ 213 ] Credits of £25 million each from the Bank of France and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an issue of £15 million in fiduciary notes slowed, but ...
Great Britain: Jacobites: Civil war, Hanoverian victory Jacobite restoration attempt defeated The War of the Quadruple Alliance. including. The Nineteen Uprising in Great Britain (1717–1720) Holy Roman Empire Great Britain France Dutch Republic Savoy. Spain. Jacobites. British Allied victory:
An elaborate map of the British Empire in 1886, marked in pink, the traditional colour for imperial British dominions on maps. Pax Britannica (Latin for "British Peace", modelled after Pax Romana) refers to the relative peace between the great powers in the time period roughly bounded by the Napoleonic Wars and World War I.
Samoan Civil War; Second Samoan Civil War; Sannyasi rebellion; Second Anglo-Burmese War; Second French intervention in Mexico; Second Hundred Years' War; Sierra Leone Civil War; Sikkim expedition; Six-Day War (1899) Sixty Years' War; War in Somalia (2006–2009) Fifth Expedition (Somaliland) South African Wars (1879–1915) Anglo-Swedish war of ...
In the post war publication Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire During the Great War 1914–1920 (The War Office, March 1922), the official report lists 908,371 'soldiers' as being either killed in action, dying of wounds, dying as prisoners of war or missing in action in the World War. (This is broken down into Britain and ...
The 18th century saw the newly united Great Britain rise to be the world's dominant colonial power, with France becoming its main rival on the imperial stage. [55] Great Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and the Holy Roman Empire continued the War of the Spanish Succession, which lasted until 1714 and was concluded by the Treaty of Utrecht.
The Great War saw a decline in civilian consumption, with a major reallocation to munitions. The government share of GDP soared from 8% in 1913 to 38% in 1918 (compared to 50% in 1943). [118] [119] The war forced Britain to use up its financial reserves and borrow large sums from the U.S. [citation needed]
Beckett, Ian Frederick William (1985), A Nation in Arms: A Social Study of the British Army in the First World War, Manchester University Press 1985, ISBN 0-7190-1737-8; Beckett, Ian Frederick William (2006), Home Front 1914–1918: How Britain Survived the Great War, The National Archives, ISBN 978-1-903365-81-6