The decolonization of the Americas occurred over several centuries as most of the countries in the Americas gained their independence from European rule. The American Revolution was the first in the A
José de San Martín
The Battle of Boyacá sealed Colombia's independence
Painting of José de San Martín's proclamation of the independence of Peru on 28 July 1821 in Lima
Battle of Carabobo
British West Indies
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The British West Indies were the territories in the West Indies under British rule, including Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Bermud
British West Indies in 1900
A linen market in Dominica in the 1770s
Planting the sugar cane, Antigua, 1823
Rose Hall plantation, Jamaica c. 1820