The British Colonial War was fought between the British armed forces and mostly the colonial King's African Rifles and the emerging nationalist movements in British African colonies between 1961 and 1990. The British Imperial Federation began to crumble in 1989, and the change in government brought the conflict to an end. The war was a decisive ideological struggle in Africa and surrounding nations, and mainland the United Kingdom.
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| - The British Colonial War was fought between the British armed forces and mostly the colonial King's African Rifles and the emerging nationalist movements in British African colonies between 1961 and 1990. The British Imperial Federation began to crumble in 1989, and the change in government brought the conflict to an end. The war was a decisive ideological struggle in Africa and surrounding nations, and mainland the United Kingdom.
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- 65000(xsd:integer)
- 148000(xsd:integer)
- Angola:18,000 guerrillas
- Namibia: 32,000 guerrillas in 1989
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- Namibia:
- border|22px Abdel Latif Boghdadi
- border|22px Alec Douglas-Home
- border|22px Anthony Eden
- border|22px Dimo Hamaambo
- border|22px Gamel Abdel Nassar
- border|22px Harold Macmillan
- border|22px Hifikepunye Pohamba
- border|22px Julius Shaambeni Shilongo Mnyika
- border|22px Kamel el-Din Hussein
- border|22px Margert Thachter
- border|22px Peter Mweshihange
- border|22px Queen Elizabeth II
- border|22px Roland GibbsÂ
- border|22px Sam Nujoma
- border|22px Zakaria Mohieddin
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| - Angola:50,000+
- Namibia:11,335
- Angola:8,289
- Namibia: 2,038 - 2,500.
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| - *British military victory in Egypt, Namibia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean Sea .
*Independence of British territories in Africa involved in the conflict after the August Coup in the United Kingdom in November 1989.
*Subsequent withdrawal of all British troops from Africa under the Cairo agreements.
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| - Â Picture above: Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1989 declared that the United Kingdom Government would restore Hong Kong to the PRC, which marked "the end of an Empire".
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| - The British Colonial War was fought between the British armed forces and mostly the colonial King's African Rifles and the emerging nationalist movements in British African colonies between 1961 and 1990. The British Imperial Federation began to crumble in 1989, and the change in government brought the conflict to an end. The war was a decisive ideological struggle in Africa and surrounding nations, and mainland the United Kingdom. Like Portugal, the United Kingdom did not withdraw from its colonies across the world. During the 1960s, various armed independence movements became active in these British-administered territories, namely in Egypt, South-West Africa, and Rhodesia. During the ensuing conflict, atrocities were committed by all forces involved. The decolonization and independence of several African states after Great Patriotic War, the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the Invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina Armed Forces, as well as the achievements of the Coloured Civil Rights Movement, were also signs of the "Winds of change" supporting independence movements in Africa and across the world. By the 1980's, the war had become increasingly unpopular due to its length and financial costs. The combined guerrilla forces of the HDA in Egypt, the EOKA in Cyprus, the UNITA in Angola, and PLAN in South-West Africa, succeeded in their 33-year-long pro-independence rebellion through guerrilla warfare, when United Kingdom was falling to revolution in November 1989. The former colonies overall gained much prosperity after independence. The exception being a devastating and violent civil war followed in Angola, which lasted over a decade after British withdrawal, claimed millions of lives and resulted in large numbers of displaced refugees. The end of the British colonial empire, as well as the war, was made official with the signing of the Cairo Accords on September 12, 1990.
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