After World War2 the rate of decolonization around the world dramatically increased as a number of colonies were striving for independence from their foreign rulers. France and the United Kingdom, holding some of the largest colonies in the world, were feeling this wave of nationalism, and both suffered colonial loss around the same time.
The colonists described king George iii as a tyrant considering he enforced many laws including stamp act which the colonists field was an act of tyranny.
