Thread: Makes you wonder if the British empire had stayed together
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Old 07-04-2013, 04:43 PM  
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Originally Posted by deltav View Post
What are you talking about? The British Empire was at its peak in the period right before WWI and actually got to its largest size after that war.
USA 1776
Canada 1867
Australia 1901 (pretty much)

So I think they had shed some pretty serious colonies by then.
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