6mo ago

Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain

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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Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain

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When was Poland invaded by Britain?
- You can find an epub of the book on Library Genesis.
  
  My history knowledge focus was on how Churchill stabbed Poland in the back and sold it to USSR, so I was surprised to hear Poland has been shanked by Brits even more.
  Thanks!
  Oh, and it's Gdańsk, not Danzig. I pray the author never visits Poland, because if he called it that he might stay forever.
This is incorrect, England has never invaded Portugal. They have in fact formed one of the oldest alliances in the world.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Alliance#Disruption_and_renewal
  (The English Armada invaded on behalf of the deposed monarchy.)
- They might be counting the Drake-Norris expedition. I suppose failing miserably at an invasion still counts as an invasion.
- Or the USA - English troops were already there when it started.
  
  I think if you declare independence then the British are an invading force and have by definition, invaded.
  
  Okay, during the war of 1812, Canadians (who were British at the time) marched on Washington and burned down the Whitehouse. That probably counts, but it wasn't held territory.
- There are other weird things on here.
  Countries that didn't exist during British actions, for example. Finland has only existed since 1917 in its current form -- when did the UK invade them? Participate on the opposite side of a war? Yes.
  And others, like Canada, were largely created by treaty. Canadians if different political stripes might argue that the treaties were unfair in retrospect, and thus it qualifies as an invasion, but that's a bit of a stretch of the definition. True enough, the British fought the French in Quebec and that could constitute an invasion, but Canada didn't exist then.
  Then there's the invaded vs liberated debate...
  There are many others here and one could go on at length.
  
  Finland has only existed since 1917
  You can find an epub of the book on Library Genesis.
  For Finland, it counts their invasion of what is now Finland during the Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812).
...yet
Pro tip: if you want to show some things on a map, don't make those things the same color as water.
Britain was the first to be invaded by Britain.
Well UK hasn't invaded Vatican but isn't there a long feud between Vatican and English Church or something.
'Chad' understandably, but what about the rest?
Don't rush them! They're doing their best. If anything, the Tories have been working with US Republicans to get things back on track.
when did England invade England? and more importantly when did things that didn't classify themselves as countries and nobody else classified as countries start being counted as countries?
Hey Brits, that Vatican City is looking mighty glittering with gold! I've also heard their current leader is very ill, sounds like the perfect opportunity for a friendly acquisition
Brazil?? When did that happen?
Wait when did they invade Italy? (The WW2 business doesn’t count)

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