British have invaded nine out of ten countries

[gore0bsessed]

British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg

Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world in its long and colourful history, new research has found.

After almost two years of research he said he was shocked by the answer. "I was absolutely staggered when I reached the total. I like to think I have a relatively good general knowledge. But there are places where it hadn't occurred to me that these things had ever happened. It shocked me.
"Other countries could write similar books – but they would be much shorter. I don't think anyone could match this, although the Americans had a later start and have been working hard on it in the twentieth century."







British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg - Telegraph

 

[darkbeaver]

Yes we did but we're sorry and we've apologized many times for civilizing the world. We won't do it anymore, you can trust us.

 

[eh1eh]

Yes they did. And the world learned nothing! The ungrateful lot.

 

[Goober]

Why did they slack off on the last 10%. Shxt we could have had the whole world in the Commonwealth- ditch the UN.

 

[SLM]

Quitters!

 

[Colpy]

British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg

Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world in its long and colourful history, new research has found.

After almost two years of research he said he was shocked by the answer. "I was absolutely staggered when I reached the total. I like to think I have a relatively good general knowledge. But there are places where it hadn't occurred to me that these things had ever happened. It shocked me.
"Other countries could write similar books – but they would be much shorter. I don't think anyone could match this, although the Americans had a later start and have been working hard on it in the twentieth century."







British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg - Telegraph

How fortunate for some of us!!!

Compare New Zealand, the USA, Canada, Australia, India,....the places where the Brits stayed for long enough that their ideas settled in........compare them to the rest of the world.

And consider yourself lucky.

 

[damngrumpy]

And your problem is? Britain invaded a lot of places, but then again they didn't invade others
because the Germans, the French, Dutch, and Spanish already invaded the other places.
Then there was the Arab World with the Ottoman Empire, the Romans who invaded most of
the world, the Greeks, the Mongolians who took over most of the world at one time.
It is re-written by revisionists these were cultural exchanges and some had more difficulty
adjusting than others.

 

[darkbeaver]

How fortunate for some of us!!!

Compare New Zealand, the USA, Canada, Australia, India,....the places where the Brits stayed for long enough that their ideas settled in........compare them to the rest of the world.

And consider yourself lucky.

Nothing lasts forever and that is true of obsolete British propaganda. At the height of the Empire it was commonly bandied about by butchering limeys as justification for genocidal practices. Every conquering force expounds on it's own glorious bloodbathing as bringing culture and civilization to the ignorant savage. None of those places had the wheel before the redcoats arrived, did they.

 

[gore0bsessed]

The problem is they exploited other, poorer nations for personal gain. This goes on today, we exploit the third world and make them suffer so we can live in luxury. You clowns want to try and act like moral human beings while fully supporting this.
Those are "the ideas that settled in" as Colpy says. Exploitation of the weak, greed, slavery.

 

[Cannuck]

The problem is they exploited other, poorer nations for personal gain. This goes on today, we exploit the third world and make them suffer so we can live in luxury. You clowns want to try and act like moral human beings while fully supporting this.

Nobody is supporting exploitation. You can't turn a blind eye to history though. For all the negatives that colonialism brought it did bring some positives. I feel sorry for people like you who live in such a black and white world.

 

[EagleSmack]

What have the Romans ever done for us - YouTube

 

[Cannuck]

You beat me to it.

 

[Bar Sinister]

It is useful to keep in mind that most of the countries on the map did not exist as what are now considered countries when the British invaded them. In the case of Africa, for example, many of the countries owe their boundaries to the British. Before being taken over they were merely a collection of individual tribes; many of which spent a good deal of their time attacking one another.

The colonial period of the Brits and other Europeans had both positive and negativve results. One of the positives was forced national unitly and the end of internecine warfare.

 

[damngrumpy]

Many of the problems they have today are a direct result of the escapades of centuries past.
We hare looking at African problems, Middle Eastern problems and even the problems of
Asia. On the other hand the same people who exploited them may well become the victims
of their actions of centuries past. The west brought the knowledge and customs and even
the universal language in the world (English)

 

[Colpy]

Nothing lasts forever and that is true of obsolete British propaganda. At the height of the Empire it was commonly bandied about by butchering limeys as justification for genocidal practices. Every conquering force expounds on it's own glorious bloodbathing as bringing culture and civilization to the ignorant savage. None of those places had the wheel before the redcoats arrived, did they.

The problem is they exploited other, poorer nations for personal gain. This goes on today, we exploit the third world and make them suffer so we can live in luxury. You clowns want to try and act like moral human beings while fully supporting this.
Those are "the ideas that settled in" as Colpy says. Exploitation of the weak, greed, slavery.

BRILLIANT!!! lol

Yep, on occassion the Brits behaved abysmally...........and yep, they did bring western civilization, English Common Law, and parliamentary democracy to much of the world.

Do you so hate those things???

(Hint: It is aTrick question.)

As for Goreobsessed, who seems to know nothing about everything, exactly what society on earth freed their slaves first??? And one of the only ones EVER to do so??

The British Empire.......because of the influence of Christianity.

I know, go write some insulting blather, be as condescending and arrogant as you can manage, do your foaming-at-the-mouth worst.........it changes the facts not a whit.

You characters are hilarious!!

 

[EagleSmack]

It is useful to keep in mind that most of the countries on the map did not exist as what are now considered countries when the British invaded them. In the case of Africa, for example, many of the countries owe their boundaries to the British. Before being taken over they were merely a collection of individual tribes; many of which spent a good deal of their time attacking one another.

Sounds like North America!

The colonial period of the Brits and other Europeans had both positive and negativve results. One of the positives was forced national unitly and the end of internecine warfare.

That way we could all pool our resources and fight other mother F*ers.

 

[earth_as_one]

The Brits invaded and occupied China several times in support of rights of British drug dealers to turn millions of Chinese into opium addicts:
Opium Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Brits also raped, castrated, tortured and executed hundreds of thousands if not millions of colonials over the years. Some as recently as the 1960's:

...The revolt against British rule in Kenya in the 1950s and 1960s was marked by atrocities, with thousands killed....The claimants' lawyers allege that Mr Nzili was castrated, Mr Nyingi was severely beaten and Mrs Mara was subjected to appalling sexual abuse...
BBC News - Mau Mau case: UK government accepts abuse took place
Yep, We sure civilized the locals.


Regarding slavery

Ancient times

3rd Century BC: Ashoka abolishes slave trade and encourages people to treat slaves well but does not abolish slavery itself in the Maurya Empire, covering the majority of India, which was under his rule.[1]
AD 9: In China, Emperor Wang Mang usurps the throne, abolishes slave trading (although not slavery), and institutes radical land reform[2]

Early timeline

It should be noted that many of these changes were reversed in practice over the succeeding centuries.

960: Doge of Venice Pietro IV Candiano reconvened the popular assembly and had it approve of a law prohibiting the slave trade
1102: Trade in slaves and serfdom ruled illegal in London: Council of London (1102)
1117: Slavery abolished in Iceland
1200: Slavery virtually disappears in Japan; it was never widespread and mostly involved captives taken in civil wars.[3]
1214: The Statute of the Town of Korčula (Croatia) abolishes slavery.[4]
1215: Magna Carta signed. Clause 30, commonly known as Habeas Corpus, would form the basis of a law against slavery in English common law.
1256: The Liber Paradisus is promulgated. The Comune di Bologna abolishes slavery and serfdom and releases all the serfs in its territories.
1274: Landslova (Land's Law) in Norway mentions only former slaves, which indicates that slavery was abolished in Norway
1315: Louis X, king of France, publishes a decree proclaiming that "France" signifies freedom and that any slave setting foot on the French ground should be freed[5]
1335: Sweden (including Finland at the time) makes slavery illegal.[6]
1416: Republic of Ragusa (modern day Dubrovnik, Croatia) abolished slavery and slave trading
1435: Papal Encyclical - Sicut Dudum - of Pope Eugene IV banning enslavement on pain of excommunication.

BTW, I recognize the good the Brits did. But I'm not going to pretend that aspects of British rule weren't harsh and prejudicial. The Brits are responsible for many horrendous crimes against humanity. Hundreds of millions revolted against British rule for many good reasons.

 

[taxslave]

As I recall Britain itself was invaded and conquered more than once.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

British have invaded nine out of ten countries

And in other news, rain is wet. Pretty loose definition of invasion was used though: not just full scale military invasion to take over a territory, a privateer raiding a Spanish-held colony would count too, which is why so many territories that were never British colonial possessions show up on the list.

 

[The Old Medic]

Since the vast majority of those "countries invaded" did not exist prior to the 20th Century, the entire thesis is wrong. And, Britain has not invaded all of those areas, that is 100% fantasy.