Question: When were the American colonies lost by the country that owned the region that secured southern Lebanon in 1978, before it achieved country status?

<P0-S0> the battle of maroun al-ras was a battle of the 2006 lebanon war that took place in maroun ar-ras, a small village in southern lebanon on the border with israel, and jall ad-dayr, a nearby hizbullah stronghold. <P0-S1> this battle was the first serious ground battle in the 2006 lebanon war. <P0-S2> it was fought to a large extent by elite forces on both sides and would have huge consequences for the future of the war. <P0-S3> although israeli forces captured most of the town, they did not fully secure it. <SEP> <P1-S0> English America (later British America) refers to the English territories in North America (including Bermuda), Central America, the Caribbean, and Guyana from 1607 to 1783. <P1-S1> Formally, the British colonies in North America were known as British America and the British West Indies until 1776, when the Thirteen Colonies located along the Atlantic seaboard declared their independence and formed the United States of America. <P1-S2> After that, the term British North America was used to describe the remainder of Britain's continental North American possessions. <P1-S3> That term was first used informally in 1783, but it was uncommon before the Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839), called the Durham Report. <SEP> <P2-S0> A Jewish national movement, Zionism, emerged in the late - 19th century (partially in response to growing anti-Semitism) and Aliyah (Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel) increased. <P2-S1> After World War I, Ottoman territories in the Levant came under British and French control and the League of Nations granted the British a Mandate to rule Palestine which was to be turned into a Jewish National Home. <P2-S2> A rival Arab nationalism also claimed rights over the former Ottoman territories and sought to prevent Jewish migration into Palestine, leading to growing Arab -- Jewish tensions. <P2-S3> Israeli independence in 1948 was marked by massive migration of Jews from Europe, a Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries to Israel, and of Arabs from Israel, followed by the Arab -- Israeli conflict. <P2-S4> About 43% of the world's Jews live in Israel today, the largest Jewish community in the world. <SEP> <P3-S0> On 11 March 1978, a PLO guerilla raid from Lebanon led to the Coastal Road Massacre. <P3-S1> Israel responded by launching an invasion of southern Lebanon to destroy the PLO bases south of the Litani River. <P3-S2> Most PLO fighters withdrew, but Israel was able to secure southern Lebanon until a UN force and the Lebanese army could take over. <P3-S3> The PLO soon resumed its policy of attacks against Israel. <P3-S4> In the next few years, the PLO infiltrated the south and kept up a sporadic shelling across the border. <P3-S5> Israel carried out numerous retaliatory attacks by air and on the ground. <SEP> <P4-S0> the province of maryland was an english and later british colony in north america that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the thirteen colonies in rebellion against great britain and became the u.s. state of maryland. <P4-S1> its first settlement and capital was st. mary's city, in the southern end of st. mary's county, which is a peninsula in the chesapeake bay and is also bordered by four tidal rivers.