Kingdom of Great Britain

especially a parliamentary reform. It is in this way that in 1790’s political societies supporting the revolution spread in Britain, mostly supported by artisans but also writers. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) wrote a book Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) that was in Britain an opening salvo in the fight for equality of the sexes. Equally, Thomas Pain (1737-1809), a great supporter of the French Revolution, wrote The Rights of Man (1791-1792) were he denounced monarchical rule and…

“If there be a people on earth whose more especial duty it is to be at all times prepared to defend the rights with which they are blessed, and to surpass all others in sustaining the necessary burthens, and in submitting to sacrifices to make such preparations of these states,” said James Monroe, author of “The Monroe Doctrine.” The Monroe Doctrine was a foreign policy statement set in 1823. On December 2, 1823, President James Monroe used his speech to state the efforts by European…

The war of 1812 is a war that took place in Great Britain amongst a conflict that had a huge impact of today. The war lasted from 1812 to 1815. The United States endured many defeats at the hands of British, Canadian and Native American troops during the war of 1812. The war had a huge impact on not only Americans, but many other countries directly and indirectly. In addition the United States was justified in the declaring the war of Britain because of the unjustly actions of the other…

The great issue dominating Austria in the 1700s was the War of Austrian Succession, occurring just decades after the War of Spanish Succession, both similar in the struggle of power between the ruling kingdoms of Europe. The War of Austrian Succession, however, related to a feud over the remaining Habsburg territories, drawing in the nations of France, Spain, Prussia on one side and Austria, Britain, and Holland on the other. The War of Austrian Succession soon became a major international…

country is still very young; as it did not officially get its independence form Great Britain until 1776. This was almost three hundred years after its discovery. The problem was that Britain’s taxation was the only form of control the country had left over the colonies, and the people began to revolt these taxes, as they were unreasonable. The first continental congress greatly respected king George of Great Britain just a year before the war began. But in 1775 the “shot heard around world”,…

The Britain leaving the European Union after 43 years’ membership, there are a lot of reasons that let Britain took this decision. One of them is refugees, further fixing internal problems which are jobs, health care, Education and that opening the door to other countries to think about leaving the E.U like Sweden, France, and Greece even though they have a crisis in their economy for the same reason (refuges) (First of all, Greece won 't go down. We 're talking about a country that is capable…

in the economy was based upon increased trade, improved technology, and competition between European nations. With the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453, the once great Roman Empire was no more. Indeed, with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 410 AD to the Visigoths, the ever present stability of the once great empire was gone (Feudalism 129) . It is here where we must begin if we are to understand the rise of Feudalism and the role of the government in the economies of Europe.…

members by creating efficiency within its marketplace. The EU has its headquarters located in Brussels- Belgium. The United Kingdom has recently been in the spotlight with the possibility of voting out of the European Union. Fear surges about what kind of repercussions of this action could come to the entity efficiency and power. However, one comes to question why the United Kingdom would want to vote out of the EU after so many years as a member. We will review the arguments, each in favor or…

create disarray amongst enemy forces through firepower The Phony War: September 1939 - April 1940 The Phoney War was a period of time during the Second World War when no major battles took place and there was little fighting During this period, Great Britain launched “bombing raids” over Germany. In these raids, leaflets (flyers of truth) were used instead of bombs for the purpose of informing Germans of the evil of Nazi Germany as well as to threaten German leaders by demonstrating how…

It has been often argued from the British point of view that British rule in India actually helped India, I would like to discuss the views from India’s perspective and if the atrocities of British rules translates into Britain paying reparations to India. Britain’s rise for 200 years was financed by its thefts in India, Britain’s industrialization was actually based upon the deindustrialization of India. By the dawn of the 19th Centaury it is a noted fact that India was Britain’s biggest cash…