🇬🇧💪🏼COUNTRIES ENGLAND HAS INVADED | Americans React 😲😳
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- Hey guys! We see how many countries England has invaded in this episode!
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Portugal was smart..they planned ahead and became friends. The oldest alliance in history between England and Portugal.
Treaty of Windsor 1386, still friends.
admittedly we did blockade the whole of portuguese brazil for a time to get them to abolish slavery...
@@thesherbet yes but that didn't break the alliance. Portugal let us use their islands in the Atlantic to launch military attacks on the occupied Falkland's islands in 1982.
Portugal are technically our best mates believe it or not
i was wandering if they should have been included, we did fight wars on Spanish and Portugese soil during the Napoleonic Wars, kinda counts lol France pretty much beat em and we helped take it back.
Every country has invaded or tried to invade other countries, the British were just best at it.
We were bloody good at it.
The British were indeed the best at invading third world countries. The British were never militarily involved in a European conflict at a very large scale until WWI.
@@lahire4943 and the Russians and Dutch, the Swedish, the Irish. I could go on but your low IQ makes it pointless
Precisely.
@@lahire4943 really I think you need to check your history
The Brits are still here,
Don't worry we are on a tea break.
Hah!!! Hold the sugar 😏
Not all brits drink tea by the way
@@CoolMikey81 yh most brits drink tea anyway and if not are having a pint
You british took tea break after world war and up to now you are still on a break because your time is gone now its time for other .Enjoy your tea little briti 🤣🤣🤣
@@brainrefresh7409 Imagine being from any country and having your attitude. Pathetic.
(American here) this is why history is better to learn this way. You get less people mad that way. I’m kinda tired of bad history being brought up in mainstream media.. Especially since I’m a black man.
If you where born in england you’d be a fellow english man, your skin colour represent’s your ancestry, it’s a talking point not a label.
Stay well sir 👍
I can't overlook the point, that Britain were the first to make slavery illegal. The Royal Navy, was put on patrol around Africa, to board ANY ships, trading in slavery, and set them free.
As an Englishman I'm sick and tired of people knocking our country - especially foreigners. It was the British who stopped slavery. It is in Africa today where modern day slavery flourishes more than ever. Never mentioned by BLM. In most black majority countries it is illegal to be gay and in many the death penalty is used. Child marriages and abuse through the African continent. Never mentioned by BLM. Funny isn't it? Let's blame the white man again.
@Fat Jack MSM? What is this 🤷♂️
@Fat Jack all good cousin, we are only human. All the abbreviations get so confusing, I’m getting old lol
This is for everyone not aimed at you sir.
my grandmother said this to me once “we all share the planet, we are all cousins, if you judge people because they are different you are the fool” she was a very wise women, she put a young man in his place and made me a better man.
Us brits are no angles we’ve had our share of racial division, the trick is to see past the MSM, politics and labels, they only weigh you down.
Stay safe and well in these odd times
We got fed up of being invaded over a thousand years so thought we would give it a go. Who knew we were boss level invaders.
Very true!!
Who
Mint 👍🏼
@Lesley Mcleod the Vikings,the Romans,the Saxons and the Norman's all invaded and settled in Britain so we just thought this was how the world was🤷♂️
During a business trip to India, a few years back, my host asked, over a cup of tea, "Can you explain to me just how a small island in Europe managed to control the whole of India and much of the world?" I sipped at my tea, and replied, "Perhaps it is something linked to very well disciplined and competent soldiers, good guns, good cannons and lots of controlling bureaucracy?" He replied, "Don't forget lots of very intelligent people". I replied, nowadays these intelligent people are much controlled by money, whereas many people in India seek to be controlled first by their heart.". He agreed and we calmly continued drinking our tea.
No it’s not. It’s linked to lies deceit. The divide and conquer policy of the “empire” and the exploitation of the innocence of humanity of the time. Let them try now
THE ENGLISH INVADED MY COUNTRY WALES AND SCOTLAND AND IRELAND my country Wales should go for independence from ENGLAND.
MY COUNTRY'S FLAG 🏴🏴🏴🏴
Not ENGLAND WALES.
There had to be tea involved obviously 😂 🏴
Yah non of that happened but cool story
Everyone's a gangster until the British land of your shore.
It’s interesting that the most common language of communication around the world is English. The French have never forgiven us for that😂😂
Or indeed anything else!
Miscommunication.
The irony being the language of diplomacy is often referred to as the "Lingua Franca" that being the latin for "French Language"
@L M A version of English!
and english is old German, how you feel now ?
always feel very proud of our little country when you see something like this
@Harry McNamara Dude. Culture is very important to the identity of individuals. If you don't identify with your culture, you're a tree without roots - useless and weak with no strong morals or legend to stand on
@Harry McNamara - I'm sure you're as vociferous in your rebuke of black history month.
@Harry McNamara people are proud of their history, thats how its always been. Some idiot commenting on youtube isnt going to change that, so just give up.
No you don't, so why do you write it?
Same 🏴🏴 love my country
British Empire was a sign of the times with ideas, action, trade, industrialisation, and patriotism to change the world. Infrastructure, Maps, Language, Trade and Culture were all boosted during this time. If it was not the British, I am sure it would have been the Spanish or French, probably not as well, though.
Give Tug a Hug.
British invaded exploited many countries and enslabe them
If you never know that you maybe you never get proper information or you just mislead
@@ronalddino6370
Great !! When was this ?!
Are we also to learn about the Persians, Saxons, Normans, Romans, Spanish, Dutch, Egyptians, Greece. ????
And don't forget to tell us about the world during this time !! Instead of judging by today's standards and morality !!
I thank God that the world has changed so much that we can all reap the benefits.
Greta demands an apology!
Regarding those invasions of France - to be fair, they started it when they invaded us in 1066.
To be fair, the Normans weren’t really French, they descended from Norsemen who had taken over NW France, Hence the name.
@@dek123 True enough, Derek.
Regarding those invasions of France - to be fair, they started it for being French!
But William was a Viking settled in France. They gave him a dukedom to try to bribe him into not beating up on them.
@@dek123
To be fair, the Normans were ethnically, religiously, culturally and linguistically French. William himself was only 16% Scandinavian.
And at least it was successful lol.
We never invaded , we culture re enriched !! 🤨
Absolutely right. AND, protected them from the---French, Spanish, Portuguese, Germans, Dutch, Belgians, Danish Italians, Turks, and and--other's.
PMSL, the funny thing is your both probably right.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 suuuuureeeee
It was a surprise military visit
I'm still a second class citizen in my own country and grew up through a civil war thanks to British divide and rule policies. Interesting what some people consider "enrichment".
George : "The war started because of the vile Hun and his villainous empire-building."
Blackadder: "George, the British Empire at present covers a quarter of the globe, while the German Empire consists of a small sausage factory in Tanganyika. I hardly think that we can be entirely absolved of blame on the imperialistic front."
Mad as a bicycle
A good gag from Blackadder but in reality we most certainly can’t be blamed for starting WW1, Empire or not. I’m afraid the Germans, and the Kaiser in particular, own that one.
@Nehemiah Scudder wrong,WWI started because Germany gave the austo-hungarians carte blanche and promised to back them all they way, because they wanted their own empire by any means necessary. Look at the Morocco crisis,the kaisers "interview",etc
As Blackadder says, the only good empire is a foreign one
@Nehemiah Scudder So the poor old ostrich died for nothing.
i lived in northern Rhodesia for about 15 years from 1960 to 75 they got there independence in 1964 from England and renamed it Zambia after the Mighty Zambezi river ,there was also Southern Rhodesia as well now Zimbabwe 1980 and Nyasaland part of Rhodesia they got independence in 1964 , like all the other gone down hill now, war and corruption
I lived in Colonial Kenya from 1957 to 1960. It was a beautiful country. They got independence in1964. I went back in 1998 and was shocked to the core. Nairobi was almost unrecognisable.
Completely gone to rack and ruin. So sad. Whatever people say about British colonialism it was a well run, ordered country. Now it is a complete mess.
*Zimbabwe* was on an episode of *The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan* in 2019 where it was apparently bad, but not too bad according to the *Zimbabwean* tour guide. He interviewed her for series 3 in 2020, as he couldn't go anywhere, and if I remember correctly, she said it's got worse again.
They got their independence from the UK, not England, ya numpty
I was always amazed that such a small country could achieve so much and perhaps size has nothing to do with it because wood was available to build ships which was a basic tool in building an Empire . The army was never large as Britain often fought larger numbers in battles. So perhaps it was indeed quite an achievment and since the invention of nuclear weapons i believe the British Empire will be the very last of Empires in the traditional sense.
@Harry McNamara Nobody mentioned Oirland!
Quality over quantity 👍🇬🇧
@Harry McNamara Yh we did but we also fought European countries that had the same technology so it levels it out 😭
@Harry McNamara I take it you came from somewhere that the English masrsterd !!! Of course you do ,your speaking English
yes, and we are all pleased that it is the end:)
Makes you proud doesn't it , we've been quite busy over the years time for a spot of tea , let's put our feet up and relax we've earned it .
M'mmm but not for too long eh?
So you respected the Germans for trying to invade Britain I take it?
@@chubbygreyhound1198
The Germans never tried. Maybe because they couldn't defeat the RAF and the English Channel, but they certainly had plans.
@@Teasehirt That's true, but as the intention was there, the question can still be asked hypothetically. British people should be proud of the many contributions it has made to the world, not the fact that it has enjoyed taking control of other countries against their will.
@@chubbygreyhound1198 I respect the Germans for having a crack at it. Keep us on our toes
Remember he's using modern references for countries that didn't even exist at the time (Belgium for example didn't exist until 1830)... Plus many "invasions" were as a part of an allied force that wasn't just England (like all the Napoleonic campaigns), or as a result of an attack or threat to England, go back far enough and the crusades were called for by the Pope.
I'm not saying there weren't aggressive invasions, there were, of course there was, but nowhere near as many as suggested here...
Exactly, invasions to protect our own a lot of the time
@@gmdhargreaves The invasion of Iceland at the beginning of WWII was hardly an aggressive invasion.
746 Royal Marines, 4 warships, 60 police and 300 reservists is hardly enough to subdue 150,000 Icelanders in 1940. The British also took over the Faroe Islands and left when the war ended. It was logical and necessary to secure North Atlantic traffic... If we didn't go there the Germans would have, and I can guarantee the Americans didn't want them there.... Not to mention the Canadians who were in the war long before the Americans...
When you use the word invasion it conjures up images of armies marauding and brutally conquering countries.
But in reality mostly in more modern times a lot of it is done via commerce where business interests are set up in other countries and bureaucracies get a foothold on power.
Modern comparison? China right now. It's not sending armies to invade, it's quietly using commerce to achieve political influence over other countries.
@@CoffeeConnected The EU is doing the same thing...
This Geezer had a sneering tone, and gleefully spiced it all up. WE may have been INVOLVED, but not always the instigator, and not always without provocation either.
People love highlighting the negatives about Britain, rarely do they highlight the positives the country had on the world.
You could argue Hong Kong will be a prime example in a few years time.
"What are we going to do today Brain?". " try too take over the world Pinky".
Looking on the funny side, you know, sometimes I just feel like we just got tired of being invaded Romans, by the Germanic peoples, by the Vikings, by the Normans, by the French, and by the Dutch and just snapped XD
You forgot muslim pirates
@@gigmcsweeney8566 And now they're Welsh. History can do terrible things . . .
@@TheGodsrighthandman 😄
@@TheGodsrighthandman lolz
Invading is the wrong description, that assumes troops landing and occupying the country. For many countries british rule came from them winning wars or treaties resulting from wars elsewhere.
Gibraltar was ceded to the UK under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713
That's correct, but to do that it fought for by the Royal and Dutch Marines 1704 .🇬🇧👍
All that and we outlawed slavery when the rest of the world thought it was OK.
That is where word Great come from.
To true
We may be a small island, but we can pack a punch, and we fly the best flag.
The term "The sun never sets in the British Empire." is due to at its maximum Territory, at least one time zone would have British ruled land with the sun shining.
Stay safe and keep up the great videos ❤️From a supporter
we are a small dog, we had the loudest bark.
@@tam8197 Cheers Tam!
@@tam8197 biggest bite mate
why are you proud about screwing other people?
God didn’t trust the British in the dark.
And we won the world cup in 66.
A very small country with a very big personality.
Though the British Empire was created for the benefit of the UK, its former colonies have done much better than the former colonies of Spain Portugal and France.
And then there's the Dutch royal colonies which make the French and Spanish colonial practices look great...why everyone complains about the British, but ignore the Dutch is beyond me...
My father told fond tales of when he was in Borneo, where the local Iban tribe was happy to host British allies, because the British and ANZAC forces during WWII helped the Ibans fight the Japanese Imperial forces, who were going through the Pacific islands, trying to exterminate the native populations.
The early invasions of Ireland and France were done by the Norman Conquerors (who were French descendants of Viking invaders) using English soldiers.
The intro is WRONG, England conquered Wales before Ireland, he also forgot Scotland these four together did all the rest of the Conquering. As to France, the Channel Isles are still UK although just off the French coast. He forgot New Zealand and the Maori Wars and Hawaii, long before the USA took any interest.
Was Wales not conquered in 1272 after the death of Llewelyn Ap Gruffydd?
@@DeeJay2715 He tried it on but Edward I had already conquered it, in effect LlapG was leading a rebellion against him under feudal homage.
Anyhow, the date for 'Ireland' is wrong as Clare 'Strongbow' was only a Norman Marcher Lord who helped out 'king' Murghturgh 'Murphy' in a local war with other Irish 'kings' it was not an invasion by 'England'. Ireland was not actually fully 'conquered' until well into the mid 14th Century.
@@uingaeoc3905 Henry II did go over though because de Clare and his Welsh army overstepped his bounds by responding to the King of Leinsters call to help him get his Kingdom back. Henry II went over and managed to secure the release of all the English held as slaves by the Irish in the Irish kingdoms of the time through the Council of Armagh in 1172. It made an impact on the Irish/Viking slave trade and it mainly died off by the end of the 12th/13th century. Dublin was the largest slave market in western Europe and selling, trading or raiding for slaves was illegal in England from 1086. Henry II largely stopped England and Wales being raided by the Irish for slaves.
@@shelleyphilcox4743 St Patrick himself - 700 years before - was an abductee from 'Britain' of Irish Slavers.
So firstly, the title of the video is incorrect, you can't say countries England have invaded then use the Union Flag in countries where we were empire building as part of the British Empire expansion.
We should never have given up our empire.
We should've given more freedom and control to the individual countries, but if they were still all united under British rule I genuinely believe there would have been far less wars fought in the last century or so.
Felipe is correct. Britain didn't just invade these countries, but they spread the language and the ideas of democracy, rule by the law, human rights and the industrial revolution.
Prior to the industrial revolution, Britain was like many other nations that were preyed upon by other richer nations. The big difference was that Britain was an island. Islands are difficult to conquer and the last time that someone succeeded was in 1066 with William the Conqueror. It was due to the fact that British trade ships were being captured by piratical nations (something which we did to the Spanish ironically) which caused the British to create a national bank (Bank of England) a Royal Navy and that led to the Industrial Revolution to create the Navy.
Suddenly, Britain had the ability to defend their trade and their Navy ruled the sea. This allowed us to send troops abroad to conquer nations. The British Empire was mostly beneficent in that many of these states previously had endured constant wars. It was also blind to the needs of the natives. They ignored the rising grievances of locals (such as the Americans) and this led to revolutions. It's believed that during the Second World War, Roosevelt managed to extract a promise from Churchill that Britain would free all her colonies in return for lend/lease support. America's biggest enemy prior to WW1 and WW2 was the British Empire and all War planning was based on a war with Britain. Indeed, the first war that a newly independent America declared was on none other than Britain.
Although we conquered all these nations, we actually created the means for understanding between nations through a common language and the idea of a representative parliamentary democracy as well as a common law and human rights - from Magna Carta - and the US Declaration of Independence that came out of it. So the British Empire might have been created by a lot of conflict and bad deeds, but it then went on to create something magnificent which today allows nations to live in peace with other states without having to go to war.
Well I think Britain invaded, enslaved, plundered natural resources, murdered many natives all over the world, there was no ‘democracy’ for these colonial subjects,
@@bernardmcmahon5377 no different from any other empire throughout history 🤷♂️
@@hybrid9mm true 👍
British very good at finding out who the boss man was in each country and made them offers they couldn't refuse.
Still go to any pub to find fighting spirit.
Long before the USA, it was the British who were trying to civilize and be a force for good in the world. They didn't always get it right. But for many of the countries they "invaded" in this video, they were actually received as liberators and protectors with noble intentions.
Such a tiny island did all this, not perfect, but a lot of it was done on trade and beneficial to both parties, but I suspect more beneficial to Britain
I was in Aden in the Yemen in the 60s fighting FLOSY and the NLF. Also I was in Ireland 1967 to 72, so I contributed a little to world domination.
"If God gave the world an enema, he'd stick the tube in Aden" is a joke I remember from my forces family childhood.
My Dad was in Aden then to. Planted in Ulster to so he did his bit also lol!
I to was in those same places ,and about the same times to .small world .
You were lifting shirts ?
@@randomcomputer7248 Shirts or skirts. Camels look nice in either.
It wasn't just the English. Scottish, Welsh and Irish too made up the forces. Wellington, Montgomery, big percentages of the Navy, airforce and army were for instance Irish.The same for famous Scots and Welsh leaders and troops. England didn't do this on their own.
blinkin heck, even the welsh want to be tarred with the english world domination brush. welcome to the club, my bro !
The original navy where actually pirates, that’s an interesting read 👍
We're they not in the Army, Navy or Airforce, We're they excluded?
He uses quite a loose interpretation of the word invaded to try to sensationalise it but we definitely punched above our weight.
The use of the word, 'invasion', is misplaced when talking about some of these places. They were occupied in order to prevent other forces from taking over, e.g. communists post-second world war, also, some were, 're-occupied', i.e. other colonial powers were fought against due to their strategic positions during wars. Britain was largely interested in trade rather than conquest. They took on more of an administrative role with a lot of the countries they occupied, but largely took on a defensive role rather than offensive ones. From a political perspective, a lot of things changed after the second world war, and as such, Britain couldn't really afford to keep up the maintenance of the administration of some of these countries. That a lot of countries wanted their independence in the years to follow actually did us a favour.
Be interesting to see a video of all the countries that have invaded Britain!
As far as I know this country has not been invaded since 1066.
@Denise Bond I do.not regard Scotland as a foreign country and it has never taken over England.
Lets not forget:- World financial systems, Insurance Underwriting, Rule of Law, Football, Cricket, Rugby and a Sense of Fair Play. also as I've mentioned previously, being a career world traveller, I frequently met older generations of some ruled nations who relayed fond memories of British governance...So not all bad!
The only countries that England invaded single handedly were before 1707. Before that year the English had their own parliament. Everything else after that, was a joint effort.
We were just curious, that's all helped by the fact the Royal Navy was so large and the key to our success... not bad for a small island
So proud 🏴👍
Avoid porsch Carrere gt's ! Bro trust me 🙄
You should react to a video ‘the difference between the uk, Great Britain and England’ this might give you an insight into how much of the globe this tiny little island still has influence in. We don’t have an empire anymore but we certainly have influence across the globe!
Makes you so proud to be blessed by the gods & being born British.
"British by birth,English by the grace of God", read that on a t-shirt somewhere 🙂
Dam right
nobodys born British 🤨 You're an Englishman welshman or Scottsman..
It was the French who first invaded England, not the other way round!
I assume you mean the Normans? They weren't technically French, as Normandy was a duchy and the various dukes were vassals of the successive French kings - which is why William of Normandy was so keen to conquer England and claim it as his own. The Normans were of Viking heritage originally (though they integrated with locals to some extent over the centuries). The French king at the time of their settlement had become so fed up with their constant harassing of French villages, their pillaging and murdering etc, that he annexed the top corner of France and gave it to them to keep the peace. He recognised that it would have the added advantage of protecting France from invaders in the north.
That said, I do see the point you're making - that they were the first to impose themselves on us.
Well, technically the Normans weren't French. They had origins back in Scandinavia.
The origins of the French Crown go back to a small region around the Paris area. That small state grew partly at the invitation of the Pope (e.g. taking over the area of France where the Albigensian Crusade took place en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade).
One can still experience the smaller version of France even today in the south west around Toulouse. Locals may, on setting out on a journey to Paris, say they're travelling to France.
There are still 52 countries in the British commonwealth including large areas of the world including Canada and Australia and New Zealand.
The most interesting one for me is Sierra Leone which in 2000 had a blessing in disguise, the country was being led into total anarchy, the biggest gang "the west side boys" took hostage of some British soldiers a successful assault was Carried by the British SAS to release them, many people saw the positive side of this and other gangs surrendered to the British.
gota be proud to be british what history that little island has
Great Britain were invaded many times over the centuries, The Romans, The Vikings, The French(Normans) The Spanish and Germans have tried but failed, after previous invasions, you learn a thing or two, go out and invade those Countries before they think it’s a good idea to do it to you, the Romans spread their influence and knowledge to the countries they invaded mainly Europe, North Africa etc, Great Britain took that knowledge and spread it around the rest of the World🤷🏻♂️
As well as many of its own inventions. Like trains... And gravity lol
The great" is for a reason!
I believe they missed counties out too, I’m English and I believe They forget to mention that the English mainly dominated and invaded the Scottish and Welsh who were separate countries with their own respective dialect, before we became a United island and they spoke English. I think they also forgot the Falkland’s..and Malta 1940’s, Albania 1939 to attack occupying Italian ports (unsure about this one being an invasion) and the Korean war 1950, where over 81,000 British soldiers were sent their with the Americans. We also invaded morocco and Algeria in 1943, so the true number should actually be around 125/26 not 117. And for people who wonder how we achieved a lot, being so small… as-well as our experience of war and advances in technology, much credit goes to John Harrison a self taught watch maker who invented the marine chronometer, solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea. It changed sea navigation forever.
wasn't Ascension Island a former colony, hence its use in bombing the Falklands in the eighties?
@@stevebagnall1553 I’m not sure but I’m sure there is more like Hawaii?? Doesn’t their flag have ours on it?
@@liamberry2450 it does, indeed.
And the working class brits at that time lived in absolute poverty in slums on slave wages.
Many still do - although conditions have improved.
@L M And the 5 and 6 + year old kids they forced into work in the mills during empire time.they the rich treated the workers like scum.
@@johnjohn6486 No that is not politically correct only people of colour have suffered hardship
The Empire where the sun never sets :)
I’m glad you invaded our country you say so many nice open and positive things about us you and your family are a great example too others 🤗 you get out there an explore our history and culture few would bother 🤗
We are a tiny island for a nation so exposed to the world and yet we are a strong and powerful nation even to this day.
The good old days
With all the insanity in the US at the moment, if they dont sort it out soon and start disciplining thier kids the Queen is going to revoke thier independance!
(Jokes aside its heartwarming to see what appears to be genuine admiration on Phillipe's face, certainly a warm smile)
Havn`t watched it yet but do you mean UK or England, England stopped being independent in 1707 with the treaty of union with Scotland. Anything after 1707 would be by the United Kingdom not England.
It means all incarnations. Independent England and Scotland, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.
But it doesn't say Britain it says England specifically
Sat here watching this with tears in my eyes.... God save the queen!! 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
Yes, this guy needs to do, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands....... and who started the various wars that lead to these invasions
Though many may try to disassociate themselves, Ireland were as much part of the Empire's forces too...
Indeed all the credit for the development of the Empire should not be granted to the English. The Scots,Irish ,Welsh ,Manx and Channel Islanders all contributed. It was the British Empire not the English Empire.
It’s quite simple, you don’t mess with us
It was rather the opposite, it is England that has been invaded by the French since 1066 if we play on anachronisms. During this Feudal era, the Kings and Lords of England had territories in France precisely because they were originally from there. And if we take into account the treaties and the marriages, it gave this map at 2:10
The last victory over France was Waterloo.
Britons never, ever, never shall be slaves ! The Bulldog spirit is still alive and well !
I think Felipe had a little tear in his eye
1. Britain, NOT England, 2. You're welcome to democracy, Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, Act of Toleration, ending slavery etc. 3. We Irish were never conquered, we were a full part of Britain and played a full role in the Empire.
Trust me, no other country comes close to the overall number of invasions.
Haha were here😉 just waiting for the go ahead🇬🇧
THANKS FOR SHOWING YOU GUYS
6:54 shows just how solid the Gurkhas are.
England is not britain it is the 1 country that is still held captive by the british not having it's own parliament and is not to be blamed solely for british crimes
You have to remember that Britain was invaded by the Romans - the Vikings - the Normans - the Saxons - The Dutch - the French and the Celts . Britain has not been invaded since 1066 helped mainly by being the leaders in armaments and Naval power . Along with our ability to invent --- Radar - jet engine - although not the first to invent maned flight we were the first to develope it . and many more including VTO aircraft .
Britain’s bread and butter were always the navy and marines. Because of a low population, the navy was a force multiplier. It doesn’t matter if you have 10,000 infantry against 1,000 sailers if the infantry has worse cannons.
Also being great political strategists. Always able to use the discontent of any nation and slowly control the fragments.
A size comparison of the Roman and British Empires, I'd say the Roman Empire at its height was a bit smaller than the size of the USA today, if you take out the Med and go by land area then about the size of the USA minus Alaska, California and Hawaii. In the British Empire, Canada alone was larger than either.
The British Empire was a quarter of the world's land area so 25%, the USA today is about 6%, Roman Empire was around 3.7%/4%, so also a bit smaller then Australia at 5%.
So the British Empire was about 6 or 7 times larger than the Roman Empire 😁
The Spanish empire was 13% of the world's land, the French had about 8 or 9%
The battle of Cadiz was in 1587 not 1367 (I can't find anything under that date). According to Britannica.com the reason for the battle is as follows:
_*Battle of Cadiz*, (29 April-1 May 1587). Intense rivalry between England and Spain during the reign of Elizabeth I led Philip II of Spain to prepare an armada to invade England. In response, Elizabeth ordered a preemptive strike against the Spanish fleet, a daring raid its leader, Francis Drake, termed the "singeing of the king of Spain’s beard."_
There is a lot of inconsistencies in this video
Discusting how they short changed the poor Brits. The British also invaded Saudi Arabia when it was under the Ottomans, Algeria multiple times including ww2, Tunesia during ww2 but also had the city of Tangiers as a colony. It invaded Portugal while it was controled by Spain, It invasded Mozambique chasing the Gwrmans during ww1, Drake burnt Valpariso in Chile , they invadedTibet and they actully did invade Japan in the early 1860s.
We fought in Korea too, although not strictly an invasion or occupation.
We also ruled Tangiers in Morocco for a while 1661-1684 too. Suppose he couldn't get everything in. He also spelled a few names wrong.
Favourite country England invaded is Ireland. My country. I'm forever grateful!
All we wanted is to be loved
You sound like a coloniser. IRELAND isn't your country, and the fact your dad "served in Ireland" for the British army shows Ireland isn't your country.
@@philbradshaw7650 wtf are you talking about? Nobody mentioned their dads
England never invaded Ireland, the English were invited by the Irish clans to stop the clans from killing each other, it never worked as they are still trying to kill each other even today.
@@philbradshaw7650 the Irish WERE colonisers
We had a large invasion of Portugal and Spain in 1810. We along with the Americans invaded Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in late 1942
That is absolutely mind boggling!
obviously there is much more to the English story than just invading for the fun of it not all of it is good, but the legacy it left behind with education, infrastructure, law and development I suppose is a small mitigation.
I as a brit do not look at it as invading i would say innovating for the future :)
We've done well. No wonder the world progressed.
Our vast and extremely powerful Royal Navy went along way towards telling you why we were able to do all that. And also the brain power we had over here we were ahead of our time. And the line Britannia rules the waves wasn't written for nothing. :D
No one will ever dominate like that again. Nukes and things put a different spin on things. EVERYONE has even more to lose now than in past. EVERYONE has more to lose. If nukes start going off!!
And of course many of those invasions were just to help out of course and for the own good of Countries. :D
Rome was the most impressive as it was just one city ruling over so much territory in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Interesting to interpret the Angevin Empire as being invaded by the British (the political concept of Britain didnt exist until 1603 when the Scots Stewart king James VI inherited the crown of England from the last Welsh Tudor monarch Elizabeth I) . In the first instance, England was invaded by the Normans who remained the ruling power. Henry II was actually a Norman whose mother was the daughter of the fourth son of William the Conqueror who married a Scot. Matilda was the heir, but was deprived of the crown by her cousin Stephen. Her son Henry II was the Count of Anjou through his father and he invaded England and inherited the Crown after Stephen died with no issue. He held his other lands in what is now France through birthright and marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine. Its also the case that he defended those lands against attack from the King of France to whom he owed fealty for his 'French' territories. I dont think 'the British' invaded the Angevin Empire ...they actually, as Norman's, repeatedly invaded England!
Its not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog I was once told! when comparing a country's size.
wow I've seen many American's react to this video over last few years but yours has to be the most positive what the British empire achieved. and what they did for these countries yes wasn't always positive but still good to hear someone to see the good side to it. :)
He missed Tibet, the Younghusband invasion of 1905, not forgetting Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia in 1942. Not forgetting in 1982 we retook the Falklands from Argentina.
We ruled the world once, continually trumpet about it, but the US rule the world now, but I think as empires go, we had a fairly good one if you look at the positives
No, the US thinks it rules the world. The reality is, if it came to the crunch, Europe would unite under one power against it - perhaps including the UK, perhaps not (even though there are numerous countries not in the Union). But if not, all Crown Dependencies, British Overseas Territories and most Commonwealth nations (excluding maybe Canada, which might remain neutral, for obvious reasons) would unite. THAT is why the US would never actually attempt to exert itself over any other First World Nation. It would suddenly find itself much smaller than it appears.
@@penname5766 ..I'm British and proud, but if you think for one minute Europe could take on the US you are delusional...that's like saying the British Empire never really existed because we were a tiny island, the US spend more on military than the top 10 first world nations combined....get real please 🤷🤦🤦
@@glastonbury4304 Well not really delusional if you consider how well the US has done against poorer nations in the past.... That and if Europe would for some unknown reason go to war against the US I doubt other countries would sit by and just watch, it likely turn into another world war.
@@pipercharms7374 ... All hyperthetical nonsense anyway, we're hardly going to go to war with the US, the beauty of the BS on social media, people seriously need to get out more, including me once this covid crap dies down 🤣🤣👍
@@glastonbury4304 That's only because the US is going to eat itself from the inside out. I do feel a leeeetle sorry for them, but not really.
For such a tiny island nation, (only 800 miles long) we're been a right pain in the arse to an awful lot of people.
Yep
And now you are weak 🤣
By land mass the British Empire was the largest at it's short lived peak, but some of this was due to being mandated to manage several countries after WWI and WW2 after the defeat of the German, Ottoman, and Italian empires. After than the largest were the Mongol, Russian, Qing Dynasty, Soanish and French Empires. This is followed by the Abbssid and Umayyad Caliphates, the Yuan dynasty and the Xiongnu Empire, then the Empire of Brazil, Empire of Japan and the Iberian Union.
For a 1000 years, great Britain has never lost a single war and don't forget the 100 year war against France. We r just that good we decided to extend the date.
I've seen a few of these "every country invaded by the British" videos and images. I'm still waiting for an accurate one.
You forgot English ownership/rule over Tangier in the 17th century. No mention of Zanzibar, Mauritius, Cocos/Keeling Islands, invasion of Tibet (1902/3), Sikkim, Tristan da Cunha, Ascension I, St Helena, Swaziland (now Eswatini), Lesotho, Botswana, Seychelles, Maldives, Cook Isles, Malta etc etc.
Those Gillette Fusion refill blades are so expensive.
Looking back at social history every generation back to medieval times has bemoaned how weak current society is compared to previously.However the truth is we haven't changed at all.Recently look how we reacted to Argentina invading the Falklands.If needed,believe me our young people will step up as they've always done.Great reactions guys , oh and its a tie between Nicaragua and China.
Rome had around 40 modern countries in its empire. Not in the same league. Spain had 35 colonies. If you added these two empires together they wouldn't be 25% of the number of countries. In land mass terms they would fit inside North America! Hence English,football ,cricket,railways, industrial revolution,the internet, parliamentary democracy, telescopes, policing, postal system and stamps, Shakespeare, Darwin and evolution ,t.v.,jet engines etc were gifts to the shore world
I prefer the term visited. 😉
It wasn't an attempt at empire it was a policy of stopping other European countries empire building.
you've gotta check Al Murray('The Pub Landlord')...he knows his onions on this subject...and v funny!
2nd that👍
He's got a Masters Degree in history! dunno about the onions!