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The Imperial Federation League, the main advocacy group, split into two factions in 1893, with one group promoting imperial defence and the other encouraging imperial trade. Various proposals were put forward, with most of them calling for a single state with an imperial parliament headquartered in London .
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 ...
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To expand his rule, Henry continued to claim titles of lesser families, who left no legitimate heir. This policy caused unrest among many Saxon nobles and other German princes, first and foremost his father's old enemy, Albrecht the Bear. During Barbarossa's fourth Italian campaign in 1166, a league of German Nobles declared war on Henry. The ...
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.
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]
The discourse was initiated by Charles Wentworth Dilke with the publication of Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7. [5] The racist nature of Dilke's endeavour was vouchsafed with an opening comment in the Preface: "The idea which in all the length of my travels has been at once my fellow and my guide—a key wherewith to unlock the hidden things of ...
He was a prominent speaker on behalf of the Imperial Federation League. [4] [5] He was the organizing secretary of the Rhodes Trust (1902–1922) and the Toronto Round Table Group (1910–1922). Lord Milner was an ardent admirer of Parkin's imperial ideas.