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To retain the 13 colonies on the Eastern coast of what is now the USA. the British had a war with the Colonies. With the help of the French navy, The British gave up trying to retain them. In other situations, I use the term "battle". The British conducted a battle/war with the Chinese people in SE Asia, which at the time a native Chinese population, called the Opium Wars.
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The British heavily taxed the colonies to finance the costs of war.
== == Some were and some were not. British colonies in south east Asia, such as Singapore and Malasia, were attacked by Japan. the Germans attacked British territory in North Africa. Other parts of the empire were too far away to be attacked. There was also an attack by the Japanese on Hong Kong, as well as the very long and bitter fight over MALTA, and the German occupation of some of the Channel Islands, which of course were not colonial possesions.
The winners were USA, Japan, and the colonies The losers were Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire
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The British Empire was made up of all the British Colonies.
A centralized empire is a vast empire that has a single base power and several colonies. A strong example of this is the British empire. The British empire was ruled by the British parliament and Queen of England, however it had several colonies that made up the empire.
All non British, countries, colonies, territories or protectorates were not part of the British Empire.
At the British Empires Height it had colonies on EVERY continent in the world!!!! That is why there is a phrase saying "The sun never sets on the British Empire" that phrase was obviously said because there was always a piece of land which was controlled by the British empire in sunlight
Well the 'colonies' did not exist before so yes.
it allowed the colonies to become their own countries as a part of the British Commonwealth
No. They only traded with those within the british empire.
The British strategy in the Revolutionary War was to isolate New England, the heart of the rebellion. They would occupy New York and link up with a force marching south from Canada, thus cutting off New England from the rest of the colonies. For this plan to succeed, the British needed only a decisive victory over Washington's fledgeling army.
A policy of taking colonies and building an empire is known as imperialism. An example of imperialism would be the former British Empire.
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