Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (38 page)

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Recruits to John Company’s Army: Eight Gurkhas, commissioned by William Fraser,
c.
1815
A sahib in the saddle: Colonel James Todd travelling by elephant with cavalry and sepoys
Slaves below decks, undated watercolour sketch by Lieutenant Francis Meynell, who served on HMS
Penelope
on anti-slavery patrol off the coast of Africa, 1844 – 6.
Engine of enslavement: a sugar plantation in the south of Trinidad,
c.
1850
The Cousins’ War: British forces drove the American patriots off the Charlestown peninsula at Bunker’s Hill in June 1775, but suffered heavy casualties
Flogging of the convict Charles Maher on Norfolk Island, 1823
The men who built Sydney: ‘A Government Jail Gang’, 1830
‘This open sore of the world’: slaves in chains, Zanzibar
An itinerant preacher in India ‘diffuse[s] among their inhabitants…the light and the benign influences of Truth’
Victorian superman: David Livingstone,
c.
1864 – 5
The English maiden under siege: ‘The Relief of Lucknow 1857: Jessie’s Dream’, by Frederick Goodall. Nothing infuriated the Victorians more than the thought of white women at the mercy of mutinous Indians
The sinews of Victorian power: ‘Passing the Cable on Board the
Great Eastern
’, 1866
The Oriental barrack, 1897: Indian soldiers with elephants, British soldiers with a gun. After the Mutiny, Indian troops were no longer entrusted with artillery

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