In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port Hamilton Affair. This was par

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During the nineteenth century British officials in India decided that the education system should be exclusively secular. Drawing on sources from public and pri