This research paper presents my findings on the use of British tactics in colonization and assimilation, specifically focusing on how the English language was used for this purpose in two of their formerly colonized nations—Ireland and Kenya. Linguistic hegemony took place in virtually every colonized nation, whereby the British colonizers enforced the teaching and speaking of English through various methods while subtly, or in some cases boldly, stamping out
the native languages of their acquisitions over time. Despite the differences in the historical cases of British colonization in colonial Ireland and Kenya, several common methods of linguistic hegemony and assimilation were used as historically essential elements of imperialism and colonial acquisition which, when analyzed together, provides evidence to support the idea that the British used the English language as a weaponized form of oppression during their colonial reign.