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| Tango01 | 10 Apr 2018 3:25 p.m. PST |
Of possible interest? "Most people do not associate the British Empire with the huge continent of South America. In reality, some of England's very first footsteps into empire building took place along the Northern shore of this Continent. Furthermore, Britain was to play a leading role in challenging Spanish control of the vast continent and provided help and expertise to revolutionaries and nationalists in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars. South America was to become a key part of Britain's 'Informal Empire' especially in the Nineteenth but also into the first half of the Twentieth Century. Britain provided investment, expertise and technology throughout most of the continent as she gained much of the value of Empire without the unnecessary costs and burdens of formal control and governance. With two long term exceptions (British Guiana and the Falkland Islands) Britain's relationship to South America was to be very different from her relationships to most of the rest of the World – but no less influential…."
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