1. Victorian England
What a Dickens of a time!

2. Young Queen
Born as Alexandra
Victoria in 1819 to the
4th son of George III,
the Duke of Kent and
the daughter of the
Duke of Saxe-Coberg
in Germany
Godfather was 4th
cousin Alexander I of
Russia

3. Married Albert, 1840

4. Children
Victoria
Albert Edward Alice, Duchess Alfred, Duke of
Empress
King Edward VII of Hesse Saxe-Coburg
of Germany
Helena, Princess
Louise, Duchess Arthur, Duke of Leopold,
of Schleswig-
Holstein of Argyll Connaught Duke of Albany

5. Peel vs. Palmerston
vs. Earl Grey

6. Indian Mutiny 1857
Animal fat
no longer
used for
ammunition,
but rumors
spurred a
rebellion
anyway

7. Put down in 1858

9. Disraeli vs. Gladstone

10. Big Englanders
Joseph
Chamberlain and
others wanted to
expand the empire
for glory and gold

11. Empire - Wars around
the World!

12. Disaster and success in
Zulu lands

13. Cecil Rhodes and Jackie Fisher

14. Boer War
Dutch-descendants
in South Africa
Moved out of their
territory by British
expansion for gold
and diamonds
British switch to
Khaki from red
uniforms

15. Winston Churchill
Fought in several
colonial wars
Served as newspaper
correspondent
Captured and escaped
Became a famous hero

16. Boer Successes

17. Concentration Camps

18. British Prestige
Suffered greatly from isolation, near loss to
Boers and apparent lack of humanitarian
concern in conduct of the Boer War