British Empire

Territories Lost by British Empire before 1921

• Thirteen Colonies, later the United States of America
• Delaware
• Maryland
• New Jersey
• Virginia, later Virginia and West Virginia
• Massachusetts, later Massachusetts and Maine
• New York, later New York and Vermont
• New Hampshire
• Rhode Island
• Georgia
• North Carolina
• Roanoke, later part of North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Connecticut
• Pennsylvania
• Northwest Territory between the 13 Colonies and the Mississippi River, with conflicting claims between the Colonies, which is now Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as part of Minnesota.
• Territory between the 13 Colonies and the Mississippi south of the Ohio River, with conflicting claims, which is now Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and part of Louisiana.
• Suriname from 1650 until 1667 when it was traded to the Dutch in exchange for New Amsterdam (now New York).
• Helgoland seized by the British in 1807 ceded to Germany in 1890.
• Florida, to Spain, but later in the United States.
• Part of the Oregon Country (which was disputed with the USA, Spain, and Russia), to the United States.
• Hawaii (the Sandwich Islands) ceded to Britain on 25 February 1843; gained Independence 28 November 1843; annexed by the United States on 7 July 1898.
• The Ionian Islands were captured by the British in 1809 and ceded to Greece in 1864.
• Minorca was first captured by the British in 1708; it was formally ceded to Spain in 1802.
• The Mosquito Coast was a British protectorate from 1655 to 1850.
• Havana and by de facto Cuba was occupied and captured by the British in 1762 during the Seven Years' War. It was part of the empire for only 10 months.
• Manila was occuppied by the British during the Seven Years' War, from 1762 to1763.
• Senegal was annexed two times into the British colonial empire. Once from 1758 to 1779 and in 1809 to 1817.
• Afghanistan was annexed a few times into the British Empire from the Anglo-Afghan Wars. Afghanistan achieved independence in 1919, after the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
• Samana, a city on the northeast coast of the now Dominican Republic, occupied from July to August 1809
• St. Dominique, now Haiti, mainly the coastal areas around Port-au-Prince from just north of the city to the south and west and including the towns of Leogane and Petit Goave. Other towns and areas in the French colony occupied by the British from 1793-1798 (Revolutionary Wars) included Tiburon, Jérémie, Mole St. Nicholas, St. Marc and Tortuga Island just off the northern coast of Haiti.
• Bencoolen,A trading post in the Dutch East Indies.