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After The Indian Rebellion of 1857, Queen Victoria was declared Empress of India, thus solidifying the British rule on the subcontinent. The last British acquisition in Asia was the New Territories of Hong Kong, which was leased from the Qing emperor in 1897, expanding the British colony originally ceded in the Treaty of Nanking in 1842.
The city surrendered shortly thereafter and paid the British as agreed. As a result, Canton was not totally destroyed, although after the battle elements of the British forces looted the city. Chinese reinforcements from other nearby cities and counties retreated from Canton on May 28. At the same time the British also withdrew.
The British occupation of Manila was an episode in the colonial history of the Philippines when the Kingdom of Great Britain occupied the Spanish colonial capital of Manila and the nearby port of Cavite for eighteen months, from 6 October 1762 to the first week of April 1764.
From 1841 to 1997, except for a brief period of Japanese occupation during World War II between 1941 and 1945, Hong Kong was a British crown colony and, from 1981 until its handover, a dependent territory of the United Kingdom.
The hoisting of British flag for the first time on Labuan on 24 December 1846 following its foundation as a Crown colony. Since 1841, when James Brooke had successfully established a solid presence in northwestern Borneo with the establishment of the Raj of Sarawak and began to assist in the suppression of piracy along the island coast, he had persistently promoted the island of Labuan to the ...
Academic Emrys Chew argued that there was a rethinking at the beginning of the nineteenth century among British leaders about the growing importance of Asia to British foreign interests. [27] Coupled with this was the widely held belief among ordinary Britons that their empire would be imperiled without the vigorous assertion of British power ...
The British East India Company, although still in direct competition with French and Dutch interests until 1763, following the subjugation of Bengal at the 1757 Battle of Plassey. The British East India Company made great advances at the expense of the Mughal Empire. The reign of Aurangzeb had marked the height of Mughal power.
A more serious incident with the British happened in 1763. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Demarchis, the commander of Serampore, took office in 1762 and the British quickly took a hostile view of him. [ 4 ] This hostility only grew bigger when some English sepoys were changed with 25 lashes each, because of their assaulting on Danish peons . [ 3 ]