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  2. British colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Compared to other European empires, which experienced wars of independence such as the Algerian War and the Portuguese Colonial War, the British post-war process of decolonization in the Caribbean was relatively peaceful. [136] In an attempt to unite its Caribbean colonies, Britain established the West Indies Federation in 1958.

  3. English overseas possessions in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

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    At the beginning of the war, fifty thousand Englishmen inhabited some twenty colonies in the Americas.Most of the colonies were founded in the decade prior to the start of the English Civil War (1642–1651) with the oldest existing being the Colony of Virginia (1607) and its offshoot, Bermuda (1609).

  4. List of wars involving the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Timelines of War: A Chronology of Warfare from 100,000 BC to the Present (1996), Global coverage. Cannon, John, ed. The Oxford Companion to British History (2003) Carlton, Charles. This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 (Yale UP; 2011) 332 pages; studies the impact of near unceasing war from the individual to the national levels.

  5. Colonial war - Wikipedia

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    The death of British General James Wolfe at the 1759 Battle of Quebec during the French and Indian War. The first major colonial wars in North America were fought by Spanish conquistadors. [27] Up until the American Revolutionary War, most of the colonial conflicts in North America, if they were not amphibious operations, took place in the ...

  6. British Empire in World War II - Wikipedia

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    From 1923, defence of British colonies and protectorates in East Asia and Southeast Asia was centred on the "Singapore strategy".This made the assumption that Britain could send a fleet to its naval base in Singapore within two or three days of a Japanese attack, while relying on France to provide assistance in Asia via its colony in Indochina and, in the event of war with Italy, to help ...

  7. Great Britain in the Seven Years' War - Wikipedia

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    During the war the British had instituted a new system of blockade, by which they penned in the main French fleets at anchor in Brest and Toulon. The British were able to keep an almost constant force poised outside French harbours. The French inability to counter this had led to a collapse in morale among French seamen and the wider population ...

  8. British America - Wikipedia

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    The French and Indian War from 1754 to 1763 was the North American theater of the Seven Years War, a worldwide conflict between Britain and France (despite the French and Indian War starting in 1754, the Seven Years War is commonly dated as 1756 to 1763). At the start, both countries had vast and conflicting territorial claims in North America.

  9. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the course of the war, British officers trained American ones for battle, most notably George Washington, which benefitted the American cause during the Revolution. Also, colonial legislatures and officials had to cooperate intensively, for the first time, in pursuit of the continent-wide military effort. [82]