Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 23 January 1996. Corrected and updated 11.07.2004
 

      Nations and Territories
      of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth...
... what you will find here
 
 
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        All the nations, territories, Dominions, Colonies, Protectorates and Mandates that were at any time a part of the British Empire and Commonwealth are covered in this section. Each national page collates internet links about the nation's military history into the same sixteen or so categories so that you can expect the same consistent treatment for every country. External sites are indexed here to the depth necessary to bring out these categories. Each page will also eventually contain a brief constitutional and miltary chronology to put everything in context. See, for example, Malta. Territories conquered in war but ceded at war's end are covered in the relevant war pages of this site.

          The most notable exception to our coverage is the post-independence United States of America, whose military and political institutions are too extensive for this site, minimally modelled on the British, and adequately covered elsewhere. The other notable omission is Mozambique, which, although a member of the Commonwealth, never had any British heritage. The one notable addition is Nepal due to its special relationships with Britain and India.  Not all former parts of the Empire have joined the Commonwealth, and some have been evicted after having been members, but all are included here regardless of their current Commonwealth status.
     Click on red areas of the world map or the country table below it to find out more about the land forces and military histories of those countries and territories. See also the Empire & Commonwealth page.
 

 
United Kingdom
Cyprus, Gibraltar, Heligoland, Ionian Islands, Ireland, Malta, Minorca,
Temporary Peacetime Military Administrations: France (1815-18), Bosporus Straits (1918-1923), Rhineland (1918-30), Austria (1945-55), Germany & NATO (1945-), Italy (1943-47), Trieste (1945-54)
Canada, Newfoundland, United States
West Indies, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Bay Islands, Belize (British Honduras), British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Montserrat, Mosquito Coast, St. Dominigue (Haiti), St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, Windward Islands
Bahamas, Bermuda, Falkland Islands, St. Helena and Dependencies, South Georgia Islands
Botswana (Bechuanaland), Cameroons, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana (Gold Coast), Kenya, Lesotho (Basutoland), Malawi (Nyasaland), Mozambique, Namibia (South-West Africa), Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia (British Somaliland), South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Togoland, Uganda, Zambia (Northern Rhodesia), Zanzibar, Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia)
Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, 
United Arab Emirates, Yemen (Aden)
Bangladesh, Burma, India, Nepal (see note), Pakistan
British Indian Ocean Territory (Diego Garcia), Maldive Islands, Mauritius,  Seychelle Islands, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
British North Borneo, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Java, Malaysia (Malaya), Sarawak, Shanghai, Singapore, Tientsin, Wei Hai Wei
Temporary Peacetime Military Administrations: Japan (1945-1952)
Australia, New Zealand, Western Pacific Territories, Fiji, Hawaii (Sandwich Islands), Kiribati (Gilbert Islands), Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu (Ellice Islands), Vanuatu (New Hebrides), Western Samoa