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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to History@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain

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Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain

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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to History@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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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

cover of the book "All the countries we've ever invaded, and the few we never got round to" by Stuart Laycock

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    France and Britain have a long history of warfare.

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      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.

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        Removed by mod

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        Amazing insight…

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      Warfare and invasion are not the same thing.

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        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.

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        There’s been a lot of occupation as well. E.g. the hundred year war.

        If we can say Russia invaded Ukraine, England invaded France

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        You’re trying to be a pedant, yet you appear foolish.

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        Ignoring history and being pedant on the Internet are not the same thing. But you’re doing a good job at both.

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