On July 1, 1999, the British Colony of Hong Kong was returned to China and its official name changed to Xianggang. The once mighty British Empire that had once covered a third of the world's surface had finally come to its end. While Spain may have had mixed motives in its overseas conquests, the lure of gold perhaps as important as the saving of souls, those who governed Britain through its Parliament had different reasons for building one of the largest and most profitable empiresin history. They were to give their little island nation mastery of the seas and domination of much of the globe.

ISBN 978-1-934940-60-0

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