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The United Kingdom had about 120 colonies throughout its history, the most colonies in the world, the French colonial empire came second, which had about 80 colonies. [2] Around 54 countries gained independence from the United Kingdom throughout its history, the most in the world, ahead of the French colonial empire, which 40 countries gained ...
The ruling party administration for St. Kitts moved to make the Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla colony into a looser associated state status with the UK in 1967 much to the dismay of many in Anguilla, with agitation turning into the Anguillan Revolution; Anguilla's population moved in favour of returning to British authority in 1971 with full ...
The Middle Colonies were a subset of the Thirteen Colonies in British America, located between the New England Colonies and the Southern Colonies. Along with the Chesapeake Colonies , this area now roughly makes up the Mid-Atlantic states .
The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary association of 56 sovereign states, referred to as Commonwealth countries. [1] Most of them were British colonies or dependencies of those colonies. No government in the Commonwealth exercises power over the others, as is the case in a political union.
A small proportion of the English population migrated to America after 1700, but the colonies attracted new immigrants from other European countries. These immigrants traveled to all of the colonies, but the Middle Colonies attracted the most and continued to be more ethnically diverse than the other colonies. [40]
British Gambia (1821–1965) Possessions in the Americas. Thirteen Colonies; British West Indies. Bahamas; Barbados Bermuda Leeward Islands (1671–1816),(1833–1958) Windward Islands (1833–1960) Cayman Islands; Colony of Jamaica (1655–1962) Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands British Honduras (1862–1981) British Guiana (1814 ...
Toggle Colonies by Asian countries subsection. 3.1 Japanese. 3.2 Chinese. 3.3 Burmese. 3.4 ... After an initial defeat the British were able to conquer Zululand ...
In 1983, the British Nationality Act 1981 renamed the existing Crown Colonies as "British Dependent Territories", [a] and in 2002 they were renamed the British Overseas Territories. [260] Most former British colonies and protectorates are members of the Commonwealth of Nations , a voluntary association of equal members, comprising a population ...