THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE TREATY OF PARIS
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The colonial empire of Great Britain
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The Rivera Mansion
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The Maggie Miller house
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Twin Towers
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Suez Crisis of 1956 confirmed Britain’s decline as a global power, and the transfer of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997 marked for many the end of the British Empire.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Empire was overstretched and-combined with growing unrest in various colonies-this led to the swift and decisive fall of many of Britain’s key assets, some diplomatically, some violently. In 1947 India became independent following a nonviolent civil-disobedience campaign spearheaded by Mahatma Gandhi.
Detailed explanation-3: -Operation Legacy was a British Colonial Office (later Foreign Office) programme to destroy or hide files, to prevent them being inherited by its ex-colonies. It ran from the 1950s until the 1970s, when the decolonisation of the British Empire was at its height.
Detailed explanation-4: -The two events that are usually used by historians to signify the end of the British Empire are the Independence of India in 1947 or the end of British rule in Hong Kong in 1997.