Britain and France immediately launched a drawn-out sea -food, its maritime forces also subsequently turned over several times since. To 1815, of the British navy gross tonnage roughly equivalent to others around the world navy tonnage combined. Thus the proof, in world sea chasing the French fleet dozen, almost the French person earlier in overseas possession of colonial panoramic bag.
Anti-french after the war, Britain in overseas have with the 13 A, and in India, for center of the second empire. Since the far east India into British territory, its jurisdiction is east west sunrise sunset already, became the reputation of "day falls" empire. According to the rise of great nations "book to provide the data, including the British empire 1880 150 square miles of land and 20 million population, 1890 expanded to 1,100 square miles of land and 3.9 billion population, to the first world war again expanded to 127 square miles of land and 431 million population, accounting for global area and population was about one fourth.
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