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British Empire A-Z #2

Can you name these notable places, people, and events related to the long and storied history of the British Empire?
When the answer is a person, the letter refers to their surname.
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A
Indian city and site of a massacre in 1919
Amritsar
B
Mutineers from this ship settled on Pitcairn Island
HMS Bounty
C
Yorkshire-born explorer of the South Pacific
James Cook
D
The 'second city' of the empire
Dublin
E
Event held at the Crystal Palace in 1851
Great Exhibition
F
What the Hudson's Bay Company traded
Furs
G
Period of British-Russian rivalry centred on Afghanistan
The Great Game
H
Became Belize on independence
British Honduras
I
Battle in which the Zulus defeated the British
Battle of Isandlwana
J
Island taken from the Spanish in 1655
Jamaica
K
Area of Hong Kong that was home to the Walled City
Kowloon
L
Dr. ________, I presume?
Livingstone
M
Term for the journey millions of slaves took across the Atlantic
Middle Passage
N
'New Scotland'
Nova Scotia
O
Conflicts that resulted in the acquisition of Hong Kong
Opium Wars
P
Powhatan woman who died in Gravesend
Pocahontas
Q
Persian Gulf protectorate
Qatar
R
'Lost Colony' mysteriously abandoned in the 16th century
Roanoke
S
Colony settled by London's 'Black Poor'
Sierra Leone
T
Term for the exiling of criminals to Australia
Transportation
U
Region 'planted' by English and Scots in the 17th century
Ulster
V
Empress of India
Victoria
W
Leader of the abolition movement
William Wilberforce
X
Term for British rule in the Ionian Islands; Greek for 'rule by foreigners'
Xenocracy
Y
Canadian territory created in 1898
Yukon
Z
Movement supported by the 1917 Balfour Declaration
Zionism
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