Greatest in history of humanity empire above that, as englishmen liked to talk, a sun" "never calls, a few centuries actually governed the world. "Divide and rule"! - there was a motto of the British conquerors that built the empire a fire and sword on all mainlands : in Europe and America, Asia and Africa. This book adopted by the contemporaries of author by "Bible of British imperialism" will give to the reader an idea about histories of the British empire from the beginning of her becoming to the brilliant victorian epoch. Here and history of her victories, and list of defeats most sensible from that dissociating became from Britain of the North-American States.