They said “the sun never set on the British empire” due to how vast it was. The empire was so big and stretched out so far that no matter what some of the empire was in the sunlight. The had colonies stretched out over many areas where some of the empire would be. In the early nineteenth century, British gained the Asian ports of Singapore and Hong Kong. The British empire grew haphazardly until mid nineteenth century when the British government had come in and exercise control.
