. A short history of England and the British Empire. DISRAELI AND THE NEAR EAST 613 as over the rights of the land, the church, and the sovereign;he revived the interest of the English people in their terri-tories over the sea and taught them that with a large colonialempire England could play a larger part as a world began to carry out his imperial policy by securing controlof the Suez Canal (1875). He sought to bind India moreclosely to the British crown by reviving the Empire of India. Winnipeg in 1912 and proclaiming Victoria Empress of India (1877). He tooka hand in the settlemen
. A short history of England and the British Empire. DISRAELI AND THE NEAR EAST 613 as over the rights of the land, the church, and the sovereign;he revived the interest of the English people in their terri-tories over the sea and taught them that with a large colonialempire England could play a larger part as a world began to carry out his imperial policy by securing controlof the Suez Canal (1875). He sought to bind India moreclosely to the British crown by reviving the Empire of India. Winnipeg in 1912 and proclaiming Victoria Empress of India (1877). He tooka hand in the settlement of the Balkan question at the timeof the last Russo-Turkish War. He annexed the Transvaal(1877) and thought favorably of a federal union for SouthAfrica. He found a new field for English energies in Egypt(1879). But Disraeli is best known for the interest thathe showed in the group of countries at the east end of theMediterranean Sea which is commonly called the Near Asiatic policy of England was determined largely by a fear that Russia may have designs on her possessions inIndia. Russia has a powerful fleet in the Black Sea which 614 THE UNIONISTS AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE may some day sail out past Constantinople and seize the SuezThe fear of Canal. To prevent this England was determinedRussia in the to keep the Bosporus a closed strait by leavingboth shores in the hands of the Turk. In 1876troubles broke out in Turkey which led to the Russo-TurkishWar of 1877-1878. The Turks wer
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