Maps of the British Empire

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Victorian Britain

Great Britain—Outline Map

Industrial Map, 1900

Population Density, 1911

Ireland

Ireland—Outline Map

Ireland, Tudor Conquest

Ireland, 18th & 19th century

British America

American Colonies—Outline Map

American Colonies, 1755

American Colonies, 1783

British India

Indian Subcontinent—Outline Map

British India, 1804

British India, 1857

British Empire

World—Outline Map	British Empire
Colonial Africa	South Africa

British Colonies

British America
Canada:—Acquired in 1759 following the French-Indian Wars.
Bahamas:—Became a crown colony in 1718.
Bermudas:—Settled by the British Virginia Company in 1612
Jamaica:—Acquired in 1655 as during the Anglo-Spanish Wars.
British Guiana:—Dutch colony ceded to the British in 1814.
Trinadad:—Acquired from Spain in 1797.
Barbados:—Acquired from Spain in 1625 for sugar crop.
British Honduras:—Acquired from Spain in 1862, present day Belize.
Falkland Islands:—Acquired in 1765, lost, then re-acquired in 1833.

British Mediterranean
Gibraltar:—Acquired in 1704 during the War of Spanish Succession.
Malta:—Acquired in 1814 following Napoleonic Wars.
Cyprus:—Acquired in 1878 from the Ottoman Empire

British Asia
Australia:—Claimed for Britain in 1770 by James Cook.
New Zealand:—Claimed for Britain in 1770 by James Cook.
India:—Conquered Bengal in 1757, Battled of Plassey
Burma:—Conquered in 1824 in first British-Burma War.
Singapore:—British trading post established in 1819.
Hong Kong:—Acquired by Britain in 1843, in First Opium War.
North Borneo:—British protectorate established in 1882.
Ceylon:—Acquired in 1796 following French Revolution Wars.

British Africa
Cape Colony:—Dutch colony acquired by Britain during Napoleonic Wars.
Transvaal Republics:—Boer Republic conquered by Britain during Boer Wars.
Northern Rhodesia:—Protectorate formed in 1911, modern Zambia.
Southern Rhodesia:—Protectorate formed in 1895, modern Zimbabwe.
Bechuanaland:—Protectorate established in 1885, modern Botswana.
British East Africa:—Protectorate established in 1880, modern Kenya.
Nigeria:—Protectorate established in 1901.
British Gold Coast:—British trading colony since 1820, modern Ghana.
Sierra Leone:—Freetown made a crown colony in 1808.
Egypt:—Protectorate established in 1914 at start of WWI.
Sudan:—Protectorate established in 1899 after Battle of Omdurman.

Maps of Victorian Britain

Maps of Ireland

Maps of British America

Maps of Australia

Maps of British India

Maps of British Africa

Battle Maps of European Wars

Battle Maps of Colonial Wars