Only 22 countries have never been invaded by #Britain
Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/3441/countries-never-invaded-by-britain/
According to the book "All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To", there are only 22 countries Britain never invaded throughout history. There aren't many gaps on the map, but some of the more notable include #Sweden, #Belarus and #Vatican City. The biggest blank spots can be seen on the African continent, even though the Royal African Company founded in 1660 alone was responsible for forcibly removing 212,000 slaves from their homeland and shipping them to English colonies in the Americas between 1662 and 1731.
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Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain
This chart shows all the countries invaded by Britain throughout history.Florian Zandt (Statista)
mögen das
Lisbeth Meier hat dies geteilt.
SilouettE
Als Antwort auf anonymiss • • •1) Australia was never “invaded”, it was DISCOVERED by Britain first, it wasn’t pretty and the AU gov has to constantly apologize for it’s past cruelties.
2) they would have never invaded Germany first, the beer is good, but just not their cup of tea
3) fun fact: ever wondered where the term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons came from?
Today Britain (up to Scotland) is actually inhabited by 2/3 by former SAXONS!!! (North German tribe)
The British invited the Saxons to fight against nordic tribes (Scottish).
Which worked.
But after that, the Saxons decided to stay and fought the British and drove them almost off the cliffs.
The only “original” British left are the Welsh.
End of history lesson.
confederation of Germanic tribes who started to inhabit parts of Great Britain from the 5th century onwards
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Farhad A
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Als Antwort auf anonymiss • • •2) Are the British also responsible for every U.S. war because the U.S. was a former British colony?
Brian Ó
Als Antwort auf anonymiss • • •Having just watched a 24 part lecture on the history of Britain from the fall of Rome until the Norman conquest, I have to say your four sentence summary leaves out quite a bit of the story :P
Farhad A
Als Antwort auf anonymiss • • •David
Als Antwort auf anonymiss • • •Is colonization counted as invasion? What about the colonization of Britain by the people who later became the English?
Brian Ó
Als Antwort auf anonymiss • • •That was clearly not a country being invaded by Britain.
SilouettE
Als Antwort auf anonymiss • • •that’s when wild men meet “civilization” hurray!
@Brian Ó please enlight us!
(not an expert on British history X-D imho what happened in the past seems often not to be reported accurately… )
Let’s just say: Saxons meaning: Long Knife? (correct or not?)
were and still are a pretty dangerous aggressive and ruthless (?) tribe.
SilouettE
Als Antwort auf anonymiss • • •SilouettE
Als Antwort auf anonymiss • • •You might be surprised.
SilouettE
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