Such a policy could be applied much more effectively to colonial territories, where British control of trade and payments was well grounded.

This called for the withdrawal of British troops from most colonial territories it had recently occupied.

Why are files from some former colonial territories being released in a number of batches?

In colonial territories, railways were often the largest employers of labour.

Britain, meanwhile, had expanded its colonial territories across large areas of North America.

Britain's victories had seen them capture most of France's colonial territories.

United Nations' resolutions banned the dismemberment of colonial territories before independence.

Russian troops are still present, acting as if this were still colonial territory.

It became too expensive to dominate and protect many colonial territories around the world.

And in some colonial territories, such as those of East Africa, indigenous social classes were not strongly developed.