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Curated by: Old Britannia (42 videos)
Between 1899 and 1902, the British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, and the Viceroy of India Lord Curzon, battled over how best to address Russian expansion into Persia, a buffer state with immense strategic importance to the Indian Empire. This video aims to be a short documentary looking at the debate between Simla and Whitehall over how best to confront St Petersburg and Tehran #History, #BritishEmpire, #RussianEmpire