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British attitudes were changing, as more people began to believe that having an empire was wrong and that Britain had no right to rule over other states by force Independence movements were ...
The years 1775-1783 were a turning point in British history, as the nation lost a huge part of its empire in the American War of Independence. Feeling ‘American’ rather than ‘British’, and resentful of sending money back to Britain, 13 colonies in North America united and fought to be free from British rule.
10 de abr. de 2023 · Victory over Japan Day marked the end of the Second World War in August 1945. Yet the conflict did not end on this day, particularly in Asia. While decolonisation across South and South East Asia seemed inevitable, the territory of the British Empire was at its apogee in 1945 and the journey to independence for countries in this region was not simple.
A view of the British empire as embodying a common set of values had been much more strongly held in the colonies than in Britain itself. 15 When Benjamin Franklin described American patriots as the true loyalists, he was not necessarily being perverse. 16 Especially in the 1760s, British officials and ministers freely spoke of the American colonies and Britain as part of a single ‘nation ...
On 26 September 1907 the United Kingdom granted New Zealand (along with Newfoundland, which later became a part of Canada) "Dominion" status within the British Empire. New Zealand became known as the Dominion of New Zealand. The date was declared Dominion Day, but never reached any popularity as a day of independence.
23 de mar. de 2022 · Britain's Lost Empire. UK. by. Martin Armstrong , Mar 23, 2022. As William and Kate visit Jamaica, the former British colony's plans to become the second Caribbean island to remove the Queen as ...
British Cyprus. British Cyprus ( Greek: Βρετανική Κύπρος; Turkish: Britanya Kıbrısı) was the island of Cyprus under the dominion of the British Empire, administered sequentially from 1878 to 1914 as a British protectorate, from 1914 to 1925 as a unilaterally annexed military occupation, and from 1925 to 1960 as a Crown colony.
