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Anglo-American Telegraph Company

The Anglo-American Telegraph Company was a British company formed in 1866 to lay and operate telegraph cables across the Atlantic between Valentia Island, Ireland, and Heart's Content, Newfoundland.

Anglo-Asante Treaty of 1831

The Anglo-Asante Treaty of 1831, or Maclean Treaty, was a peace agreement signed on 27 April 1831 between the Asante Empire and Britain on the Gold Coast.

Anglo-Ashanti wars

The Anglo-Ashanti wars, also called the Anglo-Asante Wars, were five conflicts between the Asante Empire and Britain on the Gold Coast from 1823 to 1901, ending with Asante's annexation.

Oct 15, 2026

The Anglo-Australian Observatory is an Australian astronomical organization operating the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, commissioned in 1974 and known for the 2dF galaxy redshift surveys.

Anglo-Brazilian Treaty of 1826

The Anglo-Brazilian Treaty of 1826 (Tratado Inglaterra-Brasil de 1826) was a convention signed at Rio de Janeiro obliging Brazil to abolish its slave trade by 1830.

Anglo-Burmese Wars

The Anglo-Burmese Wars were three 19th-century conflicts between the British Empire and Burma's Konbaung kingdom, fought in 1824–1826, 1852–1853, and 1885–1886, each costing Burma territory.

Anglo-Catholicism

Anglo-Catholicism, or the Anglo-Catholic movement, is a tendency within Anglicanism claiming Anglican churches belong to the one Holy Catholic Church; it took shape in the Oxford Movement of 1833–1845.

Anglo-Cherokee War

The Anglo-Cherokee War, also called the Cherokee War, was fought between the Cherokee Nation and the British colonies of South Carolina and Virginia from 1758 to 1761.

Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824

The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, or Treaty of London, signed in London on 17 March 1824, divided the Malay Archipelago into British and Dutch spheres of influence.

Anglo-Egba Treaty of Protection

The Anglo-Egba Treaty of Protection is an 1893 treaty between Britain and the Egba chiefs of Abeokuta recognizing Egba independence, which Britain terminated in 1914.

Anglo-Egyptian Condominium

The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (إدارة الحكم الثنائي في السودان) was the joint British-Egyptian government of the Sudan, established in 1899 and ended by Sudanese independence in 1956.

Anglo-Egyptian Condominium Agreement of 1899

The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium Agreement of 1899 was the treaty signed in Cairo by Lord Cromer and Boutros Ghali establishing joint Anglo-Egyptian rule of the Sudan.

Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Sudan

The Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Sudan was a military campaign from March 1896 to December 1898, in which an Anglo-Egyptian army under Kitchener won the decisive Battle of Omdurman.

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (السودان الأنجليزي المصري)

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (السودان الأنجليزي المصري), the 1899–1956 condominium south of the 22nd parallel jointly administered by Britain and Egypt under a British-nominated Governor-General, with Egyptian subvention, Gezira cotton, indirect rule, and independence on 1 January 1956.

Sep 23, 2026

Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936

The Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 (معاهدة ١٩٣٦) was a twenty-year military alliance between Britain and Egypt, signed in London in August 1936 and keeping British forces in the Suez Canal Zone.

Anglo-Egyptian War

The Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882, also called the Egyptian Expedition or British-Egyptian War, was Britain's conflict with Ahmed 'Urabi's Egyptian army, ending in the British occupation of Egypt.

Anglo-Ethiopian Slave Trade Convention

The Anglo-Ethiopian Slave Trade Convention refers to the anti-slavery undertakings Ethiopia gave Britain and the League of Nations, anchored in the condition attached to its 1923 League admission.

Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1897

Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1897 (14 May 1897), Rodd-Makonnen treaty of amity and commerce with Menelik II; fixed the Ethiopia-British Somaliland frontier, recognized Ethiopian rule over the Ogaden and Haud, and shaped the Somali-Ethiopian dispute.

Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1902

The Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1902, signed at Addis Ababa on 15 May by Emperor Menelik II and Britain, fixed the Sudan-Ethiopia frontier and restricted works on the Blue Nile, Lake Tana, and the Sobat.

Anglo-French Declaration of 1896

The Anglo-French Declaration of 1896, signed in London by Lord Salisbury and M. de Courcel, pledged Britain and France not to advance armed forces into central Siam without the other's consent.

Anglo-French treaties and truces, 1259–1303

The Anglo-French treaties and truces of 1259–1303 governed England's vassalage of Gascony, from the Treaty of Paris of 1259 to the Treaty of Paris of 1303.

Anglo-French War (1778–1783)

Anglo-French War (1778–1783), or Bourbon War: the Anglo-French conflict arising from France's 1778 Treaty of Alliance with the United States, a global naval war fought in the Channel, Mediterranean, Caribbean, and India, ending in the 1783 Peace of Paris.

Anglo-French Wars

Anglo-French Wars: recurring conflicts between England/Britain and France, chiefly the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) over Gascony and the French crown, ending at Castillon, plus the Second Hundred Years' War to Waterloo.

Anglo-Frisian languages

Anglo-Frisian languages: putative West Germanic subgroup of the Anglic languages (English, Scots) and Frisian, marked by Anglo-Frisian brightening and velar palatalization, with debated common-ancestor versus dialect-continuum origins.

Anglo-German Naval Agreement

Anglo-German Naval Agreement (deutsch-britisches Flottenabkommen), bilateral treaty signed in London June 18, 1935 by Hoare and Ribbentrop, fixing the German navy at 35% of British Commonwealth strength, submarines up to 45% without notice, replacing Versailles naval limits.

Anglo-German naval arms race

Anglo-German naval arms race: pre-1914 battleship competition between the Royal Navy and Tirpitz's High Seas Fleet, begun by Germany's 1898 and 1900 Navy Laws and the risk theory, intensified by HMS Dreadnought in 1906, and effectively lost by Germany by 1912 under British financial pressure.