ASPECTS OF BRITISH HISTORY
Among them were Malta and the Ionian Islands in the Mediterranean, Sierra Leone
and Cape Colony in Africa, Ceylon, Mauritius and Singapore in the Indian Ocean,
Guiana in northern South America, St. Lucia and Trinidad in the West Indies.
Britain promptly recognized the independence of several South American
colonies that rebelled against Spain in the early nineteenth century. These included
Argentina. But in 1833, a British fleet captured the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and
expelled the Argentines who had settled there.
During the nineteenth century Britain also occupied numerous islands and island
groups in all the oceans and several more territories in Asia (Nepal, Burma, Hong
Kong).
In the late nineteenth century the British captured vast areas on the east coast of
Africa (Egypt, Sudan) and on the west coast (Gold Coast [Ghana] and Nigeria), and
took control of the Suez Canal (1875) and Cyprus (1878) in the Eastern
Mediterranean, and so on.
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