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Like other countries, they were invaded and taken over. Ireland has a long history with British involvement, going back over 800 years.
The British empire grew because they wanted to trade with other countries to make their industry grow they also went to war with other countries to gain control such as France the Dutch and the Portuguese and exploring new undiscovered countries too.
No. All of the original members of the British Empire are now independent countries although some of them still choose to have Queen Elizabeth II as their Head of State.
The British started the imperialism back in the 1880's.It started when the British had 25% of the empire.
Kenya got independence from the British empire through armed struggle. The guerrilla group called MAUMAU was a rebellion meant to frustrate the British authorities.
The USA is not in the British Commonwealth as it declared independance from Britain back in 1776 (officially independent in 1783), and the Commonwealth was established in 1931. Remaining countries in the empire at that time were invited to the commonwealth (with the exception of Mozambique and rwanda).
Why do firms choose to switch back call centers back to home countries e.g British Telecom and Orange?
Present day Namibia, Cameroon and Tanzania are all part of the Commonwealth of Nations, formerly, the British Commonwealth and were once territories of the British Empire. The Commonwealth dates back to the decolonization of the British Empire in the middle of the twentieth century.
The first Commonwealth Games (known as the British Empire Games back then) was held in Hamilton, Canada from August 16th to 23rd, 1930.
the british empire was built over a long course of time,when the british wealthy enough they sent out men like James cook to concor lands like Australia and America,so in summary many explorers, rich back grounds and violence enabled the british to get a large empire.
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