Because it could not govern effectively after the reign of terror, the directory had to "disband," which led to a massive power vacuum that was eventually filled by the dictatorship of Napoleon.
The Belgian Monarch claimed it as a buffer zone between German and British claims in Africa as a way to "Prevent fighting."
The answer to your question is,
C. the British gains land but lost a lot of money leading them to tax the colonies
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A method called statistics