Premise: Mauritius . Formerly a Dutch colony ( 1638 -- 1710 ) and a French colony ( 1715 -- 1810 ) , Mauritius became a British colonial possession in 1810 and remained so until 1968 , the year in which it attained independence . The UK excised the archipelago from Mauritian territory in 1965 , three years prior to Mauritian independence .
Hypothesis: Mauritius achieved independence in 1968.
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