England was the leading European colonial power and had already established much of its overseas empire by the beginning of the 19th century. of these being established during the 19th century. the earliest colonial powers, and still retained some of them in the 19th century.
Adolf Eichmann SS official in charge of deporting European Jewry. Germany, 1940. After the defeat of the Third Reich in May 1945 Adolf Eichmann, the RSHA specialist on Jewish matters, was arrested by the American forces near Ulm, along with his long-standing adjutant SS-Obersturmfuhrer Rudolf Janisch. The two men were taken to the prisoner of war camp at Weiden in the Upper Palinate.
Alfred Thayer Mahan. Alfred Thayer Mahan [mÉËhÃ¦n] (September 27, 1840 â December 1, 1914) was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century..