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  2. British colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The British Nationality Act 1981, which entered into force on 1 January 1983, [143] abolished British subject status, and stripped colonials of their full British citizen of the United Kingdom and colonies, replacing it with British dependent territories citizenship, which entailed no right of abode or to work anywhere (other categories with ...

  3. British America - Wikipedia

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    Occupation of New Amsterdam. In 1664, ... leaving the Imperial fortress of Bermuda as the sole remaining British North American colony. By 1908, ...

  4. List of countries that have gained independence from the ...

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    The British and American occupation zones were merged in 1947 to form the Bizone, and the French zone was added into it in 1948. The resulting Trizone became host to a new German central government on 23 May 1949.

  5. Philadelphia campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) was a British military campaign during the American Revolutionary War designed to gain control of Philadelphia, the Revolutionary-era capital where the Second Continental Congress convened and formed the Continental Army and appointed George Washington as its commander in 1775, and authored and unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence the ...

  6. United Kingdom–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    Initially London supported Madrid and its colonial rule over Cuba, since the perceived threat of American occupation and a territorial acquisition of Cuba by the United States might harm British trade and commercial interests within its own possessions in the West Indies. However, after the United States made genuine assurances that it would ...

  7. Treaty of 1818 - Wikipedia

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    The Convention respecting fisheries, boundary and the restoration of slaves, also known as the London Convention, Anglo-American Convention of 1818, Convention of 1818, or simply the Treaty of 1818, is an international treaty signed in 1818 between the United States and the United Kingdom. This treaty resolved standing boundary issues between ...

  8. British North America - Wikipedia

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    The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction (1988) excerpt and text search; Cooke, Jacob E. Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies (3 vol 1993) Foster, Stephen, ed. British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion) (2014) excerpt and text search; 11 essays by scholars

  9. British occupation zone in Germany - Wikipedia

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    By 1945, the Allies had divided the country into four occupation zones: British, Soviet, American and French lasting until 1949, whence the new country of West Germany was established. Out of all the four zones, the British had the largest population and contained within it the heavy industry region, the Ruhr , as well as the naval ports and ...