The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (116 page)

Ghana;
see also
Gold Coast

Ghurkas

Gibbon, Edward

Gibraltar; and the ‘Western Design’; occupation of; siege of; Singapore based on

Gilbert and Ellice Islands

Gilbert Islands

gin trade

Girl Guides

Girl’s Friendly Society

Gladstone, W.E.; wins 1868 general election; denounces Turkey; wins 1880 general election; and Egypt; indifference to social reform; Sudanese campaign; and Irish Home Rule

Glorious Revolution (1688–89)

Gloucester, Duke of

Glubb Pasha

Goddeffroy and Son

Gold Coast; Asante wars; inhospitable conditions; loss of British trade; Second World War; Communist influences; Accra riots; self-government; Nkrumah imprisoned; independence;
see also
Ghana

Gold Coast Observer

Gold Coast Spectator

gold mines, Transvaal

Goldie, George Taubman

Golding, William

Gorbachov, Mikhail

Gordon, General Charles; as a hero; in Khartoum; background; death; in
Eminent Victorians

Gordon, Rev. G.W.

Gordon Walker, Patrick

Gough, Lord

Government of India Act (1935)

Gower, Lord

Granada

Grand Alliance

Grasse, Admiral de

Grave, Charles

Gray, Thomas

Greece

Greek Civil War

Greene, Sir Hugh

Gregory, Sir William

Grenada

Grenadier Guards

Grenville, Lord

Grey, Sir Edward

Griffith, D.W.

Grimond, Jo

Grose, Lieutenant-Governor Francis

Guadeloupe

Guatemala

Guiana

Gujars

gunboat diplomacy

Guyana

Haifa

Haig, Field Marshal Lord

Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia

Hailey, Lord

Hakluyt, Richard

Haldane, General Sir Aylmer

Haldane, Richard

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Hamilton, Alexander

Hankey, Sir Maurice

Hankow-Peking railway

Hanley, Gerald

Hanna, Colonel John

Hanotaux, Gabriel

Hanover

Hardie, James Keir

Harding, Warren G.

Hardinge, Lord

Hare, Alexander

Harmsworth, Lord

Harrow School

Hart, Sir Robert

Harvey, Oliver

Hashemite family

Hasim Jeal, regent of Brunei

Hassan, Muhammad Abdille (‘Mad Mullah’)

Hastings, Lord

Hastings, Warren

Havana

Havelock, General Sir Henry

Hawaii

Hawke, Rear-Admiral Sir Edward

Hawkins, Sir John

Hazara

Head, Brigadier Anthony

Healey, Denis

Heath, Edward

Heber, Reginald, Bishop of Calcutta

Henderson, Arthur

Henrietta Maria, Queen

Henry VII, King

Henty, G.A.

Herat

Heren, Louis

Hermes,
HMS

Hertzog, General

Heston, Charlton

Hicks, Colonel William

Highlands and Islands Emigration Society

Hill, Lord

Hilton, Anthony

Hindus

Hindustan Times

Hirohito, Emperor

Hiroshima

Hispaniola

Hitler, Adolf; appeal in Middle East; expulsion of Jews; appeasement; rise to power; on British prestige; Munich agreement; reoccupies Rhineland; claims Sudetenland; moves towards war; occupies Czechoslovakia; abandons invasion of Britain; invasion of Russia; attacks Greece; racism; British propaganda

Ho Chi-Minh

Hoare, Sir Samuel

Hobbs, Colonel Thomas

Hollywood

‘Home, Evelyn’

Home, William

Home Guard

Honduras

Hong Kong; trade with Britain; Opium Wars; Second World War; expiry of lease; government of; admittance of Hong Kong Chinese to Britain

House of Commons

House of Lords

How, Admiral Sir Richard

Howe, Sir William

Hsien-feng, Emperor of China

Hudson’s Bay Company

Huggins, Sir Godfrey (Lord Malvern)

Hughes, Billy

Hull, Cordell

Hume, David

Humphrys, Colonel Francis

Hundred Years War

Hungary

Hunter, Lord

Hurley, Major-General Patrick

Hussain, King of Jordan

Hussain, sharif of Mecca

al-Hussaini, Haj Amin

Hutchinson, Thomas

Hyder Ali Khan, Sultan of Mysore

Hyderabad

Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia

Illustrated London News

immigration
see
emigration

Immigration Restriction Act (1901)

Imperial Airways

Imperial Conferences

imperial federation

Imperial General Staff

imperial preference

Increase

India; East India Company; under British rule; conflicts with French in; Bengal War; acquisition of wealth in; administrators; Napoleon’s threat to; trade with Britain; Russian threat to; Mutiny; Cawnpore massacre; Victoria declared Empress of; importance to empire; self-government; North-West Frontier; Britain’s economic dependence on; government by autocratic paternalism; importance of British soldiers to; investment in; tax collection; civil service; education; move towards self-government; nationalism; emigration; German threat to; First World War; Muslim jihad; moves towards independence; Communist infiltration; sectarian disorders; Amritsar massacre; partition of; Second World War; ‘Quit India’ campaign; radio; Prince of Wales tours; independence; Churchill opposes self-government; Lend Lease; post-war expectations; and the Cold War; and the Commonwealth; Muslim-Hindu fighting; creation of Pakistan

India Acts

India Office

Indian army

Indian National Army (INA)

Indian National Congress

Indian Ocean

Indians, North American
see
Native Americans

Indo-China

Indomitable,
HMS

Indonesia

Industrial Revolution

industry, manufacturing

Inflexible,
HMS

Inland Revenue

Inquisition

intelligence services

International Monetary Fund

Inuit

investment

Ionian Islands

Iran;
see also
Persia

Iraq; Kurds; under British mandate; Anglo-Iraqi Treaty; oil; Second World War; British bases in; Gulf War;
see also
Mesopotamia

Ireland: British settlement of; French campaigns in; emigration; Home Rule; Easter Rising; Curragh Incident; republic declared; ‘Troubles’; creation of Free State; civil war; neutrality; leaves Commonwealth

Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Ironside, Major-General Sir Edmund

Iroquois Confederation

Islam
see
Muslims

Ismail, Khedive

Ismailia

Ismay, General Lord

Isoroku, Rear-Admiral Yamamoto

Israel

Italy: ‘new imperialism’; interest in Ethiopia; occupation of Libya; Second World War; Abyssinian crisis; manufacturing industry; battleships; appeasement of; invades Albania

ITV

Ivory Coast

Jacobins

Jacobites

Jamaica

James, C.L.R.

James I, King

James II, King

Jameson, Dr Leander Starr

Jameson Raid

Japan; ‘new imperialism’; opens to Western trade; Sino-Japanese War; Anglo-Japanese alliance (1902); Russo-Japanese War; Australia mistrusts; Second World War; manufacturing industry; naval power; Singapore as defence against; belligerence; appeasement; threatens Singapore

Jauréguiberry, Admiral Jean de

Java

Jebb, Sir Gladwyn

Jellicoe, Admiral Sir John

Jenkins, Captain

Jersey, Countess of

Jerusalem

Jervis, Admiral Sir John

Jewish Agency

Jews: propaganda against; Zionism; migration to Palestine; revolt in Palestine; creation of Israel

Jhansi, Rani of

jingoism

Jinnah, Dr Muhammad

Joffre, Joseph Jacques

Johnson, Samuel

Johnson, Sir William

Johnston, Sir Harry

Joint Technical Warfare Committee

Jones, Inigo

Jones, J.J.

Jonson, Ben

Jordan

Jordanian Arab Legion

journalism

Joynson-Hicks, Sir William

Jung-lu, General

Jutland, battle of (1916)

Kaffirs

Keating, Paul

Keats, John

Kendall, Thomas

Kennedy, John F.

Kenya; under British control; development of; settlers plan
coup d’état;
female circumcision; Second World War; Mau Mau ‘emergency’; independence

Kenyatta, Jomo

Kerr, Philip

Keynes, John Maynard

Khalsa

Khama, Seretse

Khartoum

Khoikhois (Hottentots)

Khomeini, Ayatollah

Khyber Pass

Kiachow

Kidd, Captain

Kikuyu tribe

Killearn, Lord
see
Lampson, Sir Miles

Kimberley, Lord

King, Commander F.W.

King, William Mackenzie

King’s African Rifles

Kingfisher,
HMS

Kingsley, Charles

Kipling, Rudyard

Kitchener, Lord

Knatchbull-Hugessen, Sir Hugh

Kofi, Asantehene of the Asante

Korda, Alexander

Korea

Korean War

Kowloon peninsula

Kruger, Paul

Krupps

Kruschev, Nikita

Kuala Kangsor

Kurdistan

Kurds

Kut-al-Amhara

Kuwait

Labouchere, Henry

Labour party: attitude to empire; class politics; and Indian independence; opposition to racism; 1945 general election; colonial policies; post-war programme; Cold War; and the Commonwealth; and the Middle East; and the Suez war; decolonisation policies; and nuclear weapons; 1964 general election

Lads Drill Association

Lagos Daily Record

Lake, General Sir Gerard

Lakes Company

Lampson, Sir Miles (Lord Killearn)

Lancashire

Lancaster

Lang, William

Larwood, Harold

Laune Ryrie, General Sir Granville de

Laurier, Sir William

Laval, Pierre

Law, Andrew Bonar

Lawrence, D.H.

Lawrence, Sir Henry

Lawrence, T.E.; as a hero; Arab Revolt; on Ireland; suggests ‘brown dominions’; attitude to Arabs; Jewish emigration to Palestine; Arab view of; Aldington’s biography of;
Lawrence of Arabia
(film)

le Queux, William

League of Empire Loyalists

League of Nations

League of St George

Leakey, Louis

Lebanon

Lee Kuan Yew

Leeds Mercury

Leeward Islands

Left Book Club

Leicester, Earl of

Lend Lease

Lennox-Boyd, Alan

Leopold II, King of the Belgians

Levant Company

Lévis, Chevalier de

Liaotung Peninsula

Liberal party: foreign policy; belief in free trade; and tariff reform; and Irish Home Rule

Liberia

Libya

Light, Sir James

Lin Tse-hsü

Lindsay, Brown

Linlithgow, Lord

Liotard, Victor

Lippman, Walter

Liverpool

Livesey, Roger

Livingstone, David

Lloyd, Lord

Lloyd, Selwyn

Lloyd George, David; First World War; Middle East policy; and Ireland; and Egypt; fall from power; encourages royal tours

Lloyds insurance agents

Lobengula

Loch, Lord

Locke, John

Lockheeds

London

Long, Walter

Loraine, Commander Sir Lambton

Lord Collingwood

Loudoun, John Campbell, Earl of

Louis XIV, King of France

Louis XV, King of France

Louisbourg

Low, David

Low Countries

Loyalism, in North America

Lucknow

Luftwaffe

Lugard, Lord

Lyautey, Louis Hubert

Lyons, Joseph

MacArthur, General Douglas

Macarthur, John

Macartney, Lord

Macaulay, Thomas

Macdonald, Major J.R.L.

MacDonald, Malcolm

MacDonald, Ramsay

McGhee, George

Mackenzie, Colin

Mackinnon, Sir William

Macleod, Iain

Macmillan, Harold; relations with America; Cold War; compares Nasser to Mussolini; Suez war; decolonisation policy; ‘special relationship’ with America; and Central Africa; in South Africa; African policy

Macquarie, Lachlan

Macready, General Sir Nevill

Madagascar

Madoc

Madras

Mafeking, relief of (1900)

magazines

Maginot Line

Mahan, Captain Alfred

Mahdi

Mahdist movements

Mahratha Confederacy

Mahratha War (1817–19)

Major, John

Makarios, Archbishop

Makins, Mrs Robert

Makins, Sir Roger

Malacca

Malan, Dr

Malawi;
see also
Nyasaland

Malaya; spice trade; pirates; informal empire in; Second World War; trade; class snobbery; Communist guerrillas; 1948 ‘emergency’; independence

Malaysia

Malcolm, John

Malta

Maltby, Major-General Christopher

Malthus, Robert

Manchester, Duke of

Manchester Guardian

Manchuria

Manchus

Mandela, Nelson

Manila

manufacturing industry

Maoris

Marchand, Captain Jean-Baptiste

Marianna Islands

Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of

Marshall, General George C.

Marshall, Lieutenant

Marshall Aid

Marston, John

Martin, Captain Sir Henry Byam

Martinique