It was also in this period that Britain came to acquire a great deal of her overseas empire, despite the loss of the American colonies, largely via foreign conquest in the various wars of the century. By the end of the Hanoverian period, the British Empire covered a third of...
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When the South Sea Company, a government stock investment scheme crashed, the British people suffered a catastrophic loss of cash and home. The board announced a prize of £20,000 for any person who could devise a system that could stand the test of a voyage from England to the West...