If you mean the US declaration, no, not directly. It was the independance of India that was the cusp.
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It was known as the British Empire. When the empire started to fall apart, the British Commonwealth/Commonwealth of Nations was created.
The fall of the British Empire began in the late 1800s and continued into the 1960s. It was simply too expensive and unwieldy to maintain any longer.
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The song is about the British Empire's fall from power
The nation of India became an English colony after the fall of the Mughal Empire. After the fall of the Mughal Empire, India was ruled by many Rajas and Nawabs. Many states became independent. One by one these states were defeated by the British East India Company. Later the Bristish established their rule in India after crushing the Independence Movement in 1857.
In 1776, the thirteen American colonies declared via the Declaration of Independence, their independence from the British Empire. As an aside, in literature, 1776 was the publication date of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
The year of 1776 saw the publication of several important documents. They are:1. Declaration of Independence 2. Publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations 3. Thomas Paine's Common Sense 4. Gibbon's first volume of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and 5. Jeremy Bentham's Fragment on Government.
It means that the rights and ideas set forth in the Declaration of Independence are what we should strive for, even though we may sometimes fall short of hitting the mark.
Egypt fell under British control in 1882 when it became a protectorate of the realm. It was given independence in 1922.
The Angles, the Saxons and the Celts. there was also the Romano-British left behind after the fall of the Roman Empire.
The occupation of Greece from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottoman empire until Greece's Independence in 1824.