... Germany. Being a winner at the end of the war and under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles signed in 1919, the empire reached its greatest extension by adding 1.8 million square miles and 13 million new residents. After World War I, the US and Japan developed, especially as naval forces. Furthermore, the rise of independence movements in India and Ireland, led to ... the British imperialist policy. Forced to choose an alliance with the US or Japan, Britain decided not to renew its alliance with Japan and signed the 1922 Naval Treaty of Washington, in which Britain accepted naval pari...

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... the equivalent of a millionaire and a local hero rich enough to repair his family home, buy another nearby, purchase an estate in Ireland and snap up a house in London's fashionable Berkeley Square. Just for good measure, he also helped himself to a "rotten borough" seat in Parliament. Yet the company was sinking toward bankruptcy. In 1773, the directors had to appeal to the ... charges in effect blaming him for everything that had gone wrong in India. After a spectacular, protracted trial he was acquitted. Lord Cornwallis, the patrician soldier who had surrendered to George Washington ...

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