High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The British expedition to Tibet during 1903 and 1904 was an invasion of Tibet by British Indian forces, whose mission was to establish diplomatic relations and trade between the British Raj and Tibet. In the nineteenth century, the British conquered Burma, Bhutan, Sikkim and Nepal, occupying the whole southern flank of Tibet, which remained the only Himalayan kingdom free of British influence. During most of the nineteenth century, the British government dealt with Tibet through the Chinese government which possessed sovereignty over Tibet. Near the end of the century, however, the British government attempted to deal with Tibet directly; however, repeated efforts to establish relations and trade with Tibet failed, prior to the British military expedition against the Himalayan kingdom, ordered in 1903 by Lord Curzon, the head of the British India government. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном...