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British gains in southern and East Africa prompted Rhodes and Alfred Milner, Britain's High Commissioner in South Africa, to urge a " Cape to Cairo " empire: linked by rail, the strategically important Canal would be firmly connected to the mineral-rich South, though Belgian control of the Belgian Congo Free State and German control of German East Africa prevented such an outcome until the end of World War I, when Great Britain acquired the latter territory.
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* 1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
* 1947 – India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
The British agreed to assistance but refused to agree upon the territorial gains, which Stalin accepted months later as the military situation deteriorated somewhat in mid-1942.
* 1960 – The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
Fought just prior to the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, the American victory denied the British any leverage to demand exclusive control over the Great Lakes or territorial gains against the New England states.
* 1966 – British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
Along the Western Front the British and French launched repeated assaults on the German trench lines in 1915 – 1916, which killed and wounded hundreds of thousands, but failed to make gains of even a mile.
* September 25 – In the British general election, the recently formed Labour Party gains two seats.
** Italian Somaliland gains its independence from Italy, 5 days after British Somaliland, with which it unites to form the Somali Republic.
In return, America gains 99-year leases on British bases in the North Atlantic, West Indies and Bermuda.
Map showing British territorial gains following the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ) | Treaty of Paris in pink, and Spanish territorial gains after the Treaty of Fontainebleau ( 1762 ) | Treaty of Fontainebleau in yellow.
The British suffered heavy losses, especially due to machine gun fire, during the attack and made only limited gains before they ran out of shells.
Map showing British territorial gains following the " Seven Years ' War ".
Estimated gains from the sale fluctuated, and in January 2001 British Airways admitted that its initial estimates may have been incorrect and that they now estimated Go to be worth only £ 200m.
The British made gains across the length of their front, the greatest being in the centre at Flers with an advance of, a feat achieved by the newest British division in France, the 41st Division, in their first action.
The March offensive, intended to drive a wedge between the French and British armies, turn on the latter and destroy it, lost direction and became driven by its territorial gains, its original purpose neglected.
In this time, the Entente reversed the gains the Germans had made in the first part of the year, and the British Army ( spearheaded by the Canadians and Australians ) finally broke the Hindenburg defensive system.
The German command was quick to send up reinforcements overnight and was relieved that the British did not manage to fully exploit their early gains.
Flesquières, which had already been abandoned and then Cantaing were captured in the very early morning but in general the British took to consolidating their gains rather than expanding.
On 3 December, Haig ordered a retreat from the salient and by 7 December the British gains were abandoned except for a portion of the Hindenburg line around Havrincourt, Ribécourt and Flesquières.
While the second half of the twentieth century saw the serious decline of Welsh heavy industry, along with serious unemployment and the hardship and suffering that came with it, it also saw significant cultural gains with regard to a separate Welsh identity within the British Isles, starting with the appointing of a Secretary of State for Wales in 1964, and the establishment of a Welsh Office in Cardiff the following year.
After the surrender of Napoleon in spring 1814 British public opinion demanded major gains in the war against the U. S. The senior American representative in London told Secretary of State James Monroe:
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The only other regions so blessed are the British Isles, western Europe, eastern China, southern Chile and parts of Japan, New Zealand and Tasmania.
The current southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, although its history is tied with lands as far south as California.
After the southern part of Ireland became independent in 1922, the team continued to be termed the British Isles, referring to the British Isles geographic term, rather than national citizenship.
Allenby's force, now including Indian Army units which replaced a number of British units sent to the Western Front, captured the southern Jordan Valley in 1918 and carried out two major, but unsuccessful attacks to Amman and Es Salt and occupied part of the Jordan Valley, during preparations for his final successful assault in September at the Battle of Megiddo.
* Watson Lake Cone, a cinder cone in southern Yukon, Canada, located near the British Columbia-Yukon border
To the northeast, mostly along the southern border between British Columbia and Alberta, the Continental Divide separates the Columbia watershed from the Nelson-Lake Winnipeg-Saskatchewan watershed, which empties into Hudson Bay.
The plant occurs as a rare casual in the British Isles, mainly in southern England, but the frequency of its occurrence has declined greatly.
In 1540, Spain established the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which extended from southern Mexico to Costa Rica, and thus encompassed most of what is currently known as Central America, with the exception of British Honduras ( present-day Belize ).
Near the year 550, however, the British began to lose ground once more, and within twenty-five years, it appears that control of almost all of southern England was in the hands of the invaders.
* 1998 – Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U. S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
Beginning about 550, however, the British began to lose ground once more, and within twenty-five years it appears that control of almost all of southern England was in the hands of the invaders.
The islands, an archipelago in the southern Atlantic Ocean, are a self-governing British overseas territory.
However, Germany, along with some other larger European countries ( with the exception of the UK and the Netherlands ), have been criticised by the British and Canadians for not sharing the burden of the more intensive combat operations in southern Afghanistan.
The mandate formalised British rule in the southern part of Ottoman Syria from 1923 – 1948.
The southern border with Egypt continued to be the international border which had been drawn in 1906 between the Ottoman Empire and the British Empire.
Native Celtic peoples had been marginalized during the period of Roman Britain, and when the Romans abandoned the British Isles during the 400s, waves of Germanic peoples, known to later historians as the Anglo-Saxons, migrated to southern Britain and established a series of petty kingdoms in what would eventually develop into the Kingdom of England by AD 927.
The Anglo-Saxons warred with British successor states in Wales, Cornwall, and the Hen Ogledd ( Old North ; the Brythonic-speaking parts of northern England and southern Scotland ), as well as with each other.
Although these continental European powers controlled various coastal regions of southern and eastern India during the ensuing century, they eventually lost all their territories in India to the British islanders, with the exception of the French outposts of Pondicherry and Chandernagore, the Dutch port of Travancore, and the Portuguese colonies of Goa, Daman and Diu.
While preparing for the Invasion of Russia, Hitler decided to attack Greece in December 1940 to prevent a British attack on his southern flank.
The demise of the impi finally came about with the success of European colonization of Africa-first in southern Africa by the British, and finally in East Africa as German colonialists defeated the last of the impi-style formations under Mkawawa, chief of the Hehe of Tanzania.
* 1765 – Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands at the southern tip of South America, is founded.
Simcoe expelled Americans from a settlement on southern Lake Erie which had threatened British control of the lake.
When the British again refused to accept the 49th parallel boundary proposal, Polk broke off negotiations and returned to the Democratic platform " All Oregon " demand ( which called for all of Oregon up to the 54-40 line that marked the southern boundary of Russian Alaska ).
In late 2005, the " southern resident " population of killer whales that inhabits British Columbia and Washington state waters were placed on the U. S. Endangered Species list.
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