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>Can you elaborate The second Boer war[1] is often seen by historians as the one event that precipitated the fall of the British empire [2][3][4] [1]https://e
by ur-whale 6y ago
>Can you elaborate
The second Boer war[1] is often seen by historians as the one event that precipitated the fall of the British empire [2][3][4]
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War
[2]https://sci-hub.se/10.2307/42894929 https://sci-hub.se/10.2307/42894929
[3]http://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/1145 http://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/1145
[4]https://www.jstor.org/stable/42894929?seq=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/42894929?seq=1
- simonblack 6y agoHmm. I see the actual event that showed the world that Britain's time was up, as the sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse warships in December 1941. After that point, the British Empire was dead, but it took another 15 years for it to be self-evident to the British themselves.