The Rise and Fall of The British Empire Britain began to become an empire as early as the seventeenth century, and it lasted until the mid nineteenth century. The Empire survived many obstacles and rulers. Some rulers however strengthened the Empire and Britain in general. During the seventeenth century Britain fought several very successful wars against the Dutch, French and Spanish. As Kelley Ross claims in her article The Worlds Greatest Empires, these campaigns left …showed first 75 words of 1768 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1768 total…when one would often hear “the sun never sets on the British Empire,” to having very few remaining colonies. It started colonizing and becoming a power, the same way that it was eventually destroyed. The nationalistic pride shared by British people and military strength of Britain built up the empire, and the same nationalistic pride from many of their commonwealth’s and the other European and Asian superpowers eventually caused the empire to inevitably fall.