FD,
Quote:the willingness of the Britons to give up without a fight. When it comes to waiving the white flag, no-one else comes close. What other empire in history, at the hieght of it's power, so readily gave up it's territories as soon as the locals started looking at them the wrong way?
Are we living in the same plane of existence???
For almost 100 years the Indians rebelled, revolted and did everything they could to try and rid themselves of the British.
During that 100 years the British also tried, unsuccessfully, to annex their Indian realm into neighbouring Afghanistan. They didn't give up without a fight, or 3 wars to be exact.
Likewise it took them about 50 years to realise their presence in Egypt was really not wanted (ie. their entire occupation). The first mass demonstrations against their presence begun in the 1880's and continued right up until they withdrew every single last soldier in the 1950's.
Yes, the old British trick of playing one Indian Raja off against another, to splinter what would have been much earlier a united Indian resistance to British rule.
And then... Lest we forget the 1956 Suez Crisis where the Eisenhower Administration had to directly intervene to put an end to the crisis and forcing the British into a publicly humiliating backdown, heralding the end of the British Empire.
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