The rise of the U.S. empire overlapped with the decline of the British empire. The Soviet Union represented limited political and military challenges, but never any serious economic competition or ...

While the apogee of the globe-spanning empire passed decades ago, this is, the Financial Times reports, “the first time in more than three centuries” that night will fall on British territory. There’s ...

Modern Muslim tyrannies always lose. A one-by-one survey of five of the Muslim nations whose commonality is hating Israel: ...

The culmination, 1760-1763 -- A French attempt to conquer the British Isles -- British continental commitments, 1759-60 -- The new king and the German Seven Years' War -- Privateersmen and neutrals -- ...

Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday peacefully at home in Scotland after a remarkable 70-year reign. We cannot talk about the British monarchy without confronting the colonial horrors of this ...

Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the ...

Last week in the House of Commons, Sir Winston Churchill, who in 1942 defiantly declared that he had not become Prime Minister “to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire,” sat glum ...

Tucker Carlson on the 'insidious and sad' fall of the British Empire, urgency of Chinese colonialism Fox News host Tucker Carlson joins the 'Brian Kilmeade Show' to remark on Queen Elizabeth II's ...

Following the death of Aurangzeb, the Mughal Empire fell into decline and local princes fought for control of the empire. The British East India Company used the wars between local princes to take ...