as much foreign territory as possible, thus benefiting Britain with both raw materials and potential markets (Sears 24).
             Britain continued to grow for another century, engaging in Imperial Wars, which dominated most of the eighteenth century. By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, which was the last of the Imperial Wars, Britain found itself as the only empire left in Europe. This was an extraordinarily powerful position to be in, with all of Britain's former rivals having long since lost their empires (Bayly 16). After the Imperial Wars Britain found itself with many other colonies including Dutch South Africa and Australia, which offset the loss of America. This newfound position of power was also a complicated one, as Britain found it needed to protect its threatened interest in India from the southern and eastern expansion of Russia. As Britain expanded more and more, Queen Victoria found it necessary to have a foreign policy. "The protection of India from the Russians, both by land and by sea, became a major concern of Victorian foreign policy (Ross, 26)." The empire flourished under Queen Victoria, and British economy reaped the benefits.
             Britain had become the leading industrial nation of Europe, and more and more of the world came under the domination of British commercial, financial, and naval power (Lloyd 16-17
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