In the early weeks of World War I, the German cruiser SMS Emden, under Korvettenkapitän Karl von Müller, had already ...

You've no doubt heard the saying, "The sun never sets on the British Empire." This was true, until the 1920s when colonialism fell out of favor and the Brits lost a good number of their territories.

The British Empire peaked 100 ... dishes from around the world. A map of countries where an overseas volunteer organisation operates is—what else?—a throwback to the British Empire’s pink map.

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

Most agree the British Empire lasted for almost 400 years - fom the 16th century until the late 20th century. However, the Roman Empire last for nearly 1,500 years - from 27 BCE to 1453 CE.

The adage about the sun never setting on the empire took root in the 19th century as the British empire gained new territories ... It had the world’s largest population and had just fielded an army of ...

London has been described as a city built on the spoils of empire, prompting visitors, at least over a damp weekend in March, to wonder why more of these spoils weren’t spent on proper indoor heating.

Ex-Premier David Lloyd George, now en route to the U. S., published a book in London called Is It Peace? The work is distinctly pessimistic about the progress of peace since he went out of office, ...

But by the early 19th century, the British Empire had mutated into the world's first liberal empire. In the subsequent century, this empire clearly was a force for good in at least two respects.

At the outset of the First World War, the British Empire comprised 400 million people and its territorial arsenal was so vast that the sun never set on it. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT ...