Portal:British Empire/Selected picture

These are selected pictures related to the British Empire which appear on Portal:British Empire.

The Transvaal War: General Sir George Pomeroy Colley at the Battle of Majuba Mountain just before he was killed.

An 1876 engraving of Khokar Rajputs of Punjab, from the Illustrated London News. The British colonial officials in general were impressed by the military qualities of the Rajputs.

A 1900 print depicting a battle between allied British and Japanese troops against Chinese combatants at Beijing Castle during the Boxer Rebellion.

King Charles III is the head of the Commonwealth of Nations, an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states. All but two of these countries were formerly part of the British Empire.

The Rhodes Colossus, an iconic editorial cartoon of the Scramble for Africa period, depicting British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes as a giant standing over the continent.

A topographic map of the Falkland Islands, an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, which Ernesto Sabato called: "the last trace of colonialism."