in 1763
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Because Britain was charging outrageous taxes on everyday things to pay of the king's debts.
Great Britain and her colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar on September 14, 1752. The previous day was September 2.
War of 1812
in 1763
1763
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to raise money
Because Britain was charging outrageous taxes on everyday things to pay of the king's debts.
Historians normally "begin" the date in 1961.
Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3rd 1939.
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Great Britain and her colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar on September 14, 1752. The previous day was September 2.
War of 1812
One of the things discussed in the mid Atlantic in the early days of WW2 in a meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill was the colonies of Britain. Roosevelt and the US frowned on colonialism and believed it had no place in the modern world .Churchill was on that ship to plead for US aid. Even a hard nosed old bulldog knows when he's over a barrel and part of the agreement was that Britain would begin to dismantle its Empire after the war.
It was Britain; it gave Zimbabwe independence in 1980. Ironically, Britain was also one of the first to begin decolonizing, granting Egypt independence in 1922