cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26015783
source: https://www.statista.com/chart/3441/countries-never-invaded-by-britain/
source’s source: https://archive.org/details/allcountriesweve0000layc/mode/2up
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Looks like the US is going to try to break this record
The map is bullshit tbh. It includes countries where the brits actually helped achieve independence (the Baltics after WWII).
The definition of invasion according to the book is apparently “has fought in conflicts in territory”.
E.g Sweden is uninvaded according to this map. If Norway invades Sweden and the UK goes to help Sweden, it’ll count as the brits having invaded Sweden for this map.
Yup, when did Britain invade Poland, Lithuania, Estonia or Latvia?
To clarify a lot of confusion I see in the comments. This book considers a country to be invaded when:
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At any point during the history of England, Whales, northern Ireland, Scotland, and or significant predecessors any army of theirs “invaded”,
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Counting any part of the land that is now considered part of the UN country. So not only from when the country existed,
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And being invaded meaning they had some control over, or fought conflicts in the territory.
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Crap!
British are pretty welcome. Bring tea, cookies and the office guy. :)
Heheh…No they aren’t.
Hmmm.
When were Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain , Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Austria or Romania invaded by the British?
- Netherlands - Holmes’ Bonfire, 1666, 1944
- Belgium - Napoleonic wars — Waterloo
- France - (as England) 1230, 1337-60, 1369-89, 1373, 1415-53, 1562, (as Britain) 1794, 1795, 1813, 1815, 1944
- Germany - 1914-18, 1944-5
- Spain - 1808-13
- Italy - 1944-45
- Austria - 1945
France and Britain have a long history of warfare.
Warfare and invasion are not the same thing.
You’re trying to be a pedant, yet you appear foolish.
Are you saying the British never sent troops into French territory? Any incursion by armed forces into another state’s territory is the very definition of invasion.
I think it would be easier to list the periods where France and Britain were NOT at war which each other rather than the opposite.
Amazing insight…
Their politics still sucks to this day.
The Britain’s invaded Britain. Power move.
That’s the American Revolution.
22 countries have never been invaded by the British yet.
Well, The British? What do you have to say for yourselves?!
Please calm down and would the outstanding 22 form an orderly queue.
I don’t think they ever invaded the entirety of the Arabian Peninsula, they had protectorates: Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, South Yemen, and the seven emirates that later formed UAE.
