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Originally posted by draygin
umm.. yes they did Revolutionary war they used muskets and all over in Africa during the Zulu Wars they used guns. :o
/edit Now if you go farther back in time to the dark ages there was no British Empire. How ever there was Kings etc.. Its when gunpowder first came into effect towards the end of the Dark ages in massive cannons. The British Empire really wasnt formed until some time around the Renessance Era possibly a bit later than that. During the Age of Exploration if I'm not mistaken. In which the British Empire had control over a vast majority of the world.
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Wrong. It was the Spanish who has claims to most of the lands in the world. In the 16th century, the age in England coined the "Golden Age" (under Elizabeth I) that's when England really started to begin exploring, and it wasn't under the 17th century when they started to colonize North America, make contact with the Japanese in the Orient. Colonization of Africa was more of a 19th century affair when all the major European powers began to colonize Africa. Then they had to have that Berlin Conference in 1886 or 1888 (forget the date) to make official boundaries for it.
By the way, the British were known as Anglo Saxons in the dark ages.