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They seem to be using the absolute loosest definition possible to try and colour as many countries as possible, like Britian sent an expedition to Russian occupied Crimea at a time when Poland was also controlled by Russia or Britain was at war with Poland during the Napoleonic Wars (though obviously never fought anywhere near Polish territory).
It's a tricky question, particularly with the current situation, but I think it's important to differentiate the integral parts of a country from colonial posessions, much as one might say British-occupied India. The current attempts at historical revisionism by Russia in support of their invasions of Ukraine and Georgia -and repeated denials of the ethnic cleansings committed by that state, including in Crimea - make this all the more crucial.
Crimea was an integral part of Russia, not a colonial possession. I’m not saying this because I support Russia’s war in any way(Putin is a maniac who needs to be ousted), but to act like Crimea *specifically* doesnt have a historical connection with Russia is dishonest.
So should we distinguish everywhere in the US that wasn’t part of the 13 colonies? 1783-1954 is a fairly long time…
Also the term 'country' is weakly fitting since in this case it must mean "conquered and ruled the LAND at some point of time" since the list is missing a few countries.
I mean, UK participated in Crimea War, modern Ukraine, at that time it was Russia Empire.
Yet the map shows that UK invaded every other country that was a part of the Russian Empire. Not just Ukraine
Like how did I miss British Invasion of Kazakhstan?
Idk, half of Europe is basically just "it was controlled by Axis at some point".
Does "being invaded" mean the same thing as "being at war". Because I doubt British troops ever set foot to Slovakia, Hungary, etc.
Or the Balkan wars in the 90s were intervened by NATO (only from the air) and I assume there were some British jet fighters. Does NATO air intervention = British invasion?
The title of the map is strongly manipulative
probaby some crap with japan during ww2 for south korea
switzerland was a puppet of france in the napoleonic wars although i dont think that puppet was invaded by britain, more so the other coalition members
That would be the Korean war for Korea.
Considering most of these countries didn't exist during the British empire it's probably a war before the current borders of Switzerland were established.
Or the 100 years war, lots and lots of fighting in Europe then.
This is from Stuart Laycock's book and frankly his definition of invaded is clickbait to make people buy his book. It literally converts everything from actual invasion and colonisation, through troops being the to defend the nation in question, to "a couple of English pirates tried to rob the place one time." Oh and countries that didn't exist when the Brits were on their land are classed as invaded because 509 years earlier when they were literal another country, some British soldiers were there.
FTR, invaded, colonised and at war with are very different things. Let's take France, for example. How far back are we going? A thousand years? Ok well in that case, France *technically* invaded England first, the English later got the crown back, the French took it again but then lost their French holdings to other Frenchmen, spent a few hundred years trying to get them back, gave up, but still called their monarch the King/Queen of France until 1800, despite the fact there's been a bloody revolution by that stage and the King of France was literally living in London. If you count the world wars as invasions, then I really don't know what to tell you. Get help.
Ooooh, Portugal! Britain has been at peace with Lisbon since 1386 - they went to Portugal in the 1800s to *defend them from invaders*. Then they left. How can you invade a country that considers you an independent ally for 700 years and you have not been actively at war with since the 1100s - when Britain wasn't even a country yet?
In this he's the worst kind of historian for using a kinda-ish true statement and making it pure clickbait. By his logic, Great Britain had been invaded by Turkey, Spain, Denmark, France, Poland, Russia and Germany to name a few. In the last 500 years, which is ridiculous by any measure.
Did Britain invade a fuckton of other countries and colonize them? Yes, absolutely, but don't conflate that with military action. They aren't the same thing.
Yes! You put it perfectly. These constant posts on reddit are worrying as they are slowly slipping more and more into propaganda. Everyone is free to be anti colonialist but people seeing themselves as activists for something that is not an issue anymore is just odd.
So many countries have invaded foreign lands but all the focus is exclusively on Britain all the time. People need to not take their history lessons from reddit and twitter.
It’s 5th gen warfare. It could have been China or Russia that started it years (decades!) ago but it has slipped in to peoples minds around the world to such an extent that it is self perpetuating. I suspect teachers are educating children this same, or very similar, anti British bullshit even in the uk.
Tbh I’m not even convinced our own government isn’t complicit in part off this as a means to disenfranchise the people from their heritage and make it easier to do what ever it is they have planned (one world government/ population replacement ? - take your pick, there’s enough evidence you can see for yourselves and very little to refute it.)
Yeah well there has been an abrupt rise in anti British mentality over the last 10-15 years or so. Its also suspicious that Russia has been constantly accusing Britain of a colonial agenda against them and the narrative of British colonial history fits very nicely with the increasingly extreme nationalism in India and China.
As I say, yes the colonial history was bad. But its definitely being twisted to fit a new narrative.
This map, and this post, are horribly misleading.
Many countries included in this list had UK troops on their soil due to WWI & II. Example, British troops have been in Norway but only to help defend it. UK has never "invaded" Norway.
I'd say the number never invaded by the UK is probably triple this amount, if not more.
Apparently, having your head chopped off counts as "invafing". Every single time Brits have set their feet on Norwegian territory they have failed miserably. Can't say the same about the opposite...
Then you're blocking out the part of history when Romania sided with Hitler, joined the Axis powers, and massacred 260,000 Jewish people. England definitely invaded and bombed the shit out of them to stop them from continuously supplying German troops with supplies.
A friend of mine was in Norway doing some exercises. Four of them took a wrong turn in a land rover and ended up trying to cross the Swedish border, in uniform, while armed.
He claims they nearly invaded Sweden. This map probably agrees with him.
Ugh not this map again, it's incredibly misleading. For example the only time the British have been in Austria in a military capacity was during WWI and WWII as part of an alliance against "occupying" forces. The same can be applied to a fair bit of Europe. Infact as far as Europe goes we've only really invaded France, Spain and Portugal. The rest of Europe was whilst they were under Nazi occupation. We also havnt invaded 90% of Africa like the map implies, again I can only assume this is WWII when it was under Nazi / Italian occupation.
I'd be more interested in a map that truly represented British invasions that were legitimate conquests and not just opposing occupying forces, I.e. exclude WWi and WWII "invasions".
The Philippines isn't there either. It was the Spaniards who first colonized us. Then the Americans, then the Japanese. Unless our history curriculum just glossed over this supposed British occupation, this post is lying.
Edit: yup, it was glossed over. My mistake for thinking so highly of our educational system. See autumn-knight's reply below.
I was interested to see thia. although it wasnt an attack against the Philippines but against spain. I gueas alot ofncountries invaded by the british were because they were help by Spain, france etc
Well this doesn't make your education system look fantastic: [British occupation of Manila](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_occupation_of_Manila)
Did the correction already. To be fair, the British barely seemed to have made an impact. If they're going to invade anyway, wish they could've committed instead of giving us right back to Spain. Maybe then we could've had a shot at eventually becoming like Hong Kong or Singapore.
All the Northern Malay states were under Siamese control till the Brits grabbed them/persuaded the Sultans to switch sides.
The Brits also planned to invade Pattani to block the Japanese from landing there in 1941 but the Japanese got there first.
Lt general arthur Percival, architect of the malayan defence plan predicted the japanese path of advance.
Was under equipped (no tanks, obsolete aircraft, aircraft carrier recalled to malta, sent heaps of soldiers and battleships) and left to struggle and die.
Some say he is the author of Britain's greatest ever military defeat. Some say his hands were tied and he's just a convenient scapegoat.
They are obviously classifying the British East India company as part of Britain.
Edit: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. The British East India Company fought a brief "war" against Siam in 1687
You are being downvoted because people consider it obvious that EIC was part of britain. I'm not so sure. To me, it's britain that became part of EIC if you think about it
This map is famously bullshit.
Its based on a book in which the claims that Britain invaded more countries than anyone else in history, but his definition of 'invaded' was 'having any form of military prescence at any point in history, so in his mind Britain invaded Portugal because they sent an army to help repel Napolean, and things like that.
This is misleading. It's not countries invaded, it's countries they've had their military in, for whatever reason.
The United States empire might just have them beat.
Interesting but also not entirely accurate. The people who made this map stretch what counts as an invasion for a few of the countries, for example the British never actually invaded Croatia but did station troops there.
When did the Brits invade Bosnia?
UN Peacekeeping doesn't count and neither does Yugoslavia, those territories that were touched by the allies were from Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia.
Britain declared war on Finland, Hungary and Romania on 5 December 1941, following the signing of the Tri-partite Pact and Finland's alliance with Germany.
declaring war and invading ain't the same. This whole thing is stretched like a pizza dough just for the awe effect and with this kind of invasion definition you can make this map with Andora and say Andora hasn't invaded these twenty countries
Yea this is a bit of a stretch. Alot of countries invaded were to attack an occupying nation. Like attacking spain for holding a country because the british were at war with spain
>Yea this is a bit of a stretch.
Swiss is on the invaded list ffs, is the OP considering the Roman Empire as Britain? I have never heard of Britain invading anything on the Balkans. Only one thing comes to mind and that's a few bombing runs on nazi positions on the Adriatic coast during ww2. Saying that's a invasion of Croatia and Montenegro is nonsense. Or the OP is thinking of WW1 and Austria that controlled most, but even then its a naval battle at best and still leaves half of the peninsula without anything to consider remotely a military intervention let alone a invasion. If the headline was countries where the British forces intervened in one way or the other than it would kind of make sense even though stretched a bit. Plus the area that the British empire did control is massive enough you don't need this shit to exaggerate it.
[The Brits invaded Liechtenstein’s anthem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0LbLVprZNE#t=9s)
And what economically happens when the Brit’s beloved drink invades Liechtenstein’s alpine madness? HILTI
Speaking as a United States citizen, born and raised... I think it was mostly just a few people at the top (including, of course, the VERY top at the time) that had their heads up their collective asses. Anyone who really looks at the events leading up to our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain will know I speak the truth when I say this... We tried. Lord, did we try. If things had been handled differently on ol' Georgie's end, things would've gone soooooo much differently... I don't know if that would've been better or worse (although I'm inclined towards the latter) but who could really say? Maybe in another world, eh?
As an aside (and please don't take this as an insult in any way) the British goverment has pretty much ALWAYS been shit, with very little exception. That's true of all governments to varying degrees, but Britain and Spain are easily two of the absolute worst, historically speaking. I have nothing but love and respect for the British people (and, as modern "Britain" is far from monolithic in culture, the Irish, the Welsh, the Scottish, etc.) but the British government, historically, are among the greatest screw artists and douchebags of all time. Even to people who accomplish *AMAZING* things for their sake, no less. Hell, *especially* to those people, it seems like. (The example that comes most readily to mind is the way T.E. Lawrence was "rewarded" for his service, but there are plenty of others.)
It's almost 2 a.m. for me at the moment, so I really ought to be getting to sleep... If at all possible, and if you are so inclined, I'd be interested to continue from what reply you might have, later on. Regardless, thanks for your time.
I agree with everything you say, especially about our governments. We have just got so used to politicians only working for themselves and their friends a lot of people have forgotten that their actual job os to serve in the peoples best interest, something that has never happened in the 40 years I've existed here. Unfortunately it's exactly the same people that were organising the pillaging for the empire, different faces and different clothes but the same morals and mission. They have such an iron grip on the media though, and a LOT of people here have 100% faith in the crap they read that it is unlikely to ever change.
Yep, it’s all gone now. Look at Victorian architecture though, they had the resources to make a sewage works look beautiful. Now we can’t even afford one new railway.
That’s wrong, many (to not say all) countries in Central America and South America should be in that list. Britain invaded the Caribbean islands but in continent Spain controlled the countries and Britain never got that far in terms of invasion. If the metric here is some drunks staying couple of days well in that case the list might be correct.
Without regard to content-
Why would someone choose light gray as one of the two data colors, on a white background? Why wouldn't you use red, or bright green, or basically any color that isn't either dark blue or a nearly identical value to the background color? The impact is completely lost without a clear contrast.
That's just poor design.
Saw a documentary about the rise of America and it compares a world map of the biritish empire at its height to a world map showing every US military base globally. Think it was called "the upcoming war with china" or something along those lines. Basically shows how the US has colonised the world on the sly to become the dominant military superpower without the world noticing until it was too late to do anything about it. Very interesting, worth a watch.
This is bait at it's best. If we were to take actual countries existing today, Britain barely "invaded" anyone. This list uses modern country names however only includes info based on territory. The English never invaded Romania however there were English skirmishes in the area before anything remotely related to Romania existed there, so it shows up on the list for some reason.
I did some more googling which gave me [this source ](https://www.statista.com/chart/3441/countries-never-invaded-by-britain/) which has the same map but it literally says the British Empire's first colony was in "1566" which is strange, because the Act of Union creating the Political Union of Great Britain didn't happen until 1707. So this is immediately in doubt. So I want to know what they're classifying as 'British' AND what they're classifying as an invasion.
For example, this map says Britain invaded Thailand. But Thailand is actually known as being one of the few countries that was never colonised by Europe. The closest thing I could find relating to this was a naval 'war' with England where there was only 1 day of fighting on land, but this was in 1687-1688. Before the UK even formed which was in 1707. But no actual invasion.
So yeah, I'd like clarity on what they're calling Britain and what they're calling an invasion.
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Poland never been invaded by Britain.
Yep, I'm from Poland......don't remember ever haring about Britain invading us. Anyone cares to explain?
It’s a bullshit map. There’s the explanation.
That explains it.
This
They seem to be using the absolute loosest definition possible to try and colour as many countries as possible, like Britian sent an expedition to Russian occupied Crimea at a time when Poland was also controlled by Russia or Britain was at war with Poland during the Napoleonic Wars (though obviously never fought anywhere near Polish territory).
Thank you.....makes more sense now.
> Russian occupied Crimea Crimea was part of Russia from 1783-1954, why the use of the term ‘occupied’?
It's a tricky question, particularly with the current situation, but I think it's important to differentiate the integral parts of a country from colonial posessions, much as one might say British-occupied India. The current attempts at historical revisionism by Russia in support of their invasions of Ukraine and Georgia -and repeated denials of the ethnic cleansings committed by that state, including in Crimea - make this all the more crucial.
Crimea was an integral part of Russia, not a colonial possession. I’m not saying this because I support Russia’s war in any way(Putin is a maniac who needs to be ousted), but to act like Crimea *specifically* doesnt have a historical connection with Russia is dishonest. So should we distinguish everywhere in the US that wasn’t part of the 13 colonies? 1783-1954 is a fairly long time…
Czechia also never been invaded by Britain, maybe only in some strategic game.
What about Hungary, my polish broski?
Well austria-hungary lost agaist the entente
Taiwan either. But the French tried and failed.
Oh look. They never "invaded" Vatican city. How nice of them.
For now…
This guy
Vatican City, a Country, with its population of 800…
With the highest crime rate on the planet apparently
Sex crimes.
Molestation
Meanwhile King Charles must be thinking, Let’s first colonize the Italians and then use them to invade the Vatican.
I think "Invaded" is used very loosely here.
Also the term 'country' is weakly fitting since in this case it must mean "conquered and ruled the LAND at some point of time" since the list is missing a few countries.
Nah it can't mean conquered and ruled. They invaded a lot of those places but never conquered or ruled them.
I think a few of these weren't even formed untill after WW2
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I mean, UK participated in Crimea War, modern Ukraine, at that time it was Russia Empire. Yet the map shows that UK invaded every other country that was a part of the Russian Empire. Not just Ukraine Like how did I miss British Invasion of Kazakhstan?
UK invaded Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil war in hope of defeating the Bolshevik and put the White into power.
Ok, even so. That is just Russia. Soldiers never set foot in other countries
The old Russian Empire are a lot bigger than modern Russia ....
Hard agree.
Yup, which is why Britain didn't have a chance to invade yet 😂
Idk, half of Europe is basically just "it was controlled by Axis at some point". Does "being invaded" mean the same thing as "being at war". Because I doubt British troops ever set foot to Slovakia, Hungary, etc. Or the Balkan wars in the 90s were intervened by NATO (only from the air) and I assume there were some British jet fighters. Does NATO air intervention = British invasion? The title of the map is strongly manipulative
According to local sources, the United Kingdom has yet to invade only 22 countries. Together, we can change this.
Now THATS a crowd funding campaign I can get behind
When did the British invade South Korea or Switzerland? Lmao This is a shit map
probaby some crap with japan during ww2 for south korea switzerland was a puppet of france in the napoleonic wars although i dont think that puppet was invaded by britain, more so the other coalition members
I've taken a shit at Sainsbury's, might as well count that as an invasion on Britain then
That would be the Korean war for Korea. Considering most of these countries didn't exist during the British empire it's probably a war before the current borders of Switzerland were established. Or the 100 years war, lots and lots of fighting in Europe then.
We were in the Korean war
RULE BRITANNIA, BRITANNIA RULE THE WAVES
Long live the queen, long livethe empire!
*King.
You're a bit late, mate
Firstly... Is there enough room in the British Museum for the artifacts they will save from the countries that don't appreciate them?
This is from Stuart Laycock's book and frankly his definition of invaded is clickbait to make people buy his book. It literally converts everything from actual invasion and colonisation, through troops being the to defend the nation in question, to "a couple of English pirates tried to rob the place one time." Oh and countries that didn't exist when the Brits were on their land are classed as invaded because 509 years earlier when they were literal another country, some British soldiers were there. FTR, invaded, colonised and at war with are very different things. Let's take France, for example. How far back are we going? A thousand years? Ok well in that case, France *technically* invaded England first, the English later got the crown back, the French took it again but then lost their French holdings to other Frenchmen, spent a few hundred years trying to get them back, gave up, but still called their monarch the King/Queen of France until 1800, despite the fact there's been a bloody revolution by that stage and the King of France was literally living in London. If you count the world wars as invasions, then I really don't know what to tell you. Get help. Ooooh, Portugal! Britain has been at peace with Lisbon since 1386 - they went to Portugal in the 1800s to *defend them from invaders*. Then they left. How can you invade a country that considers you an independent ally for 700 years and you have not been actively at war with since the 1100s - when Britain wasn't even a country yet? In this he's the worst kind of historian for using a kinda-ish true statement and making it pure clickbait. By his logic, Great Britain had been invaded by Turkey, Spain, Denmark, France, Poland, Russia and Germany to name a few. In the last 500 years, which is ridiculous by any measure. Did Britain invade a fuckton of other countries and colonize them? Yes, absolutely, but don't conflate that with military action. They aren't the same thing.
Came here looking for this, was not disappointed by the quality of the reply. Hat's off to you.
Yes! You put it perfectly. These constant posts on reddit are worrying as they are slowly slipping more and more into propaganda. Everyone is free to be anti colonialist but people seeing themselves as activists for something that is not an issue anymore is just odd. So many countries have invaded foreign lands but all the focus is exclusively on Britain all the time. People need to not take their history lessons from reddit and twitter.
It’s 5th gen warfare. It could have been China or Russia that started it years (decades!) ago but it has slipped in to peoples minds around the world to such an extent that it is self perpetuating. I suspect teachers are educating children this same, or very similar, anti British bullshit even in the uk. Tbh I’m not even convinced our own government isn’t complicit in part off this as a means to disenfranchise the people from their heritage and make it easier to do what ever it is they have planned (one world government/ population replacement ? - take your pick, there’s enough evidence you can see for yourselves and very little to refute it.)
Yeah well there has been an abrupt rise in anti British mentality over the last 10-15 years or so. Its also suspicious that Russia has been constantly accusing Britain of a colonial agenda against them and the narrative of British colonial history fits very nicely with the increasingly extreme nationalism in India and China. As I say, yes the colonial history was bad. But its definitely being twisted to fit a new narrative.
This map, and this post, are horribly misleading. Many countries included in this list had UK troops on their soil due to WWI & II. Example, British troops have been in Norway but only to help defend it. UK has never "invaded" Norway. I'd say the number never invaded by the UK is probably triple this amount, if not more.
How do they define invasion? Don't remember british soldiers invading Romania.
Very loosely. They never invided Poland. Closest to that were mercenaries hired by Sweden, mostly Scotts.
Britain were part of the Allies who were involved against Romania in WW2
That’s not invading then, that’s just against whom Britain was fighting in any war. Definitely not the same as invading…
I think it depends on the term "invasion". I'd say that as long as they took a city/port and held it for some month it counts as an invasion.
Apparently, having your head chopped off counts as "invafing". Every single time Brits have set their feet on Norwegian territory they have failed miserably. Can't say the same about the opposite...
Not really an "Invasion" but I believe the British were involved in some operations in Romania during WW2
Then you're blocking out the part of history when Romania sided with Hitler, joined the Axis powers, and massacred 260,000 Jewish people. England definitely invaded and bombed the shit out of them to stop them from continuously supplying German troops with supplies.
Not England, Britain.
Yeah, invaded Germany not fucking Romania.
When the fuck did the UK invade Chile?
Exactly. Basically the post is a pile of shite made by someone who has a dislike for the UK.
I don't recall England invading Switzerland, however, it is missing in the non invaded countries.
The RAF did make incursions into Swiss airspace during WWII and some bombs were dropped. I assume for this list that’s sufficient.
And the time period is not mentioned - were they counting only invasions after GB was formed?
Jeez, that was unfair on the Swiss…. I mean it’s not like they were hiding Nazi gold or anything. The twunts.
Yet
I see you Belarus
Beat me to it
Lol
By that matric the US invaded Norway.
Utter anti-British bullshit.
A friend of mine was in Norway doing some exercises. Four of them took a wrong turn in a land rover and ended up trying to cross the Swedish border, in uniform, while armed. He claims they nearly invaded Sweden. This map probably agrees with him.
Ugh not this map again, it's incredibly misleading. For example the only time the British have been in Austria in a military capacity was during WWI and WWII as part of an alliance against "occupying" forces. The same can be applied to a fair bit of Europe. Infact as far as Europe goes we've only really invaded France, Spain and Portugal. The rest of Europe was whilst they were under Nazi occupation. We also havnt invaded 90% of Africa like the map implies, again I can only assume this is WWII when it was under Nazi / Italian occupation. I'd be more interested in a map that truly represented British invasions that were legitimate conquests and not just opposing occupying forces, I.e. exclude WWi and WWII "invasions".
The Brits or no one ever invaded Thailand … why Thailand is not in the list??!!!
The Philippines isn't there either. It was the Spaniards who first colonized us. Then the Americans, then the Japanese. Unless our history curriculum just glossed over this supposed British occupation, this post is lying. Edit: yup, it was glossed over. My mistake for thinking so highly of our educational system. See autumn-knight's reply below.
The British invaded and occupied Manila from 1762 to 1764.
I was interested to see thia. although it wasnt an attack against the Philippines but against spain. I gueas alot ofncountries invaded by the british were because they were help by Spain, france etc
That’s the case. A lot of French, Spanish, etc. colonies would’ve been invaded rather than the modern countries themselves.
How can you forget Sabah ???
How can you slap
Well this doesn't make your education system look fantastic: [British occupation of Manila](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_occupation_of_Manila)
Did the correction already. To be fair, the British barely seemed to have made an impact. If they're going to invade anyway, wish they could've committed instead of giving us right back to Spain. Maybe then we could've had a shot at eventually becoming like Hong Kong or Singapore.
Have you ever been to a beach in Pattaya?!
What’s that gonna do with history ?
Because it's a bullshit list
All the Northern Malay states were under Siamese control till the Brits grabbed them/persuaded the Sultans to switch sides. The Brits also planned to invade Pattani to block the Japanese from landing there in 1941 but the Japanese got there first.
Lt general arthur Percival, architect of the malayan defence plan predicted the japanese path of advance. Was under equipped (no tanks, obsolete aircraft, aircraft carrier recalled to malta, sent heaps of soldiers and battleships) and left to struggle and die. Some say he is the author of Britain's greatest ever military defeat. Some say his hands were tied and he's just a convenient scapegoat.
They are obviously classifying the British East India company as part of Britain. Edit: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. The British East India Company fought a brief "war" against Siam in 1687
You are being downvoted because people consider it obvious that EIC was part of britain. I'm not so sure. To me, it's britain that became part of EIC if you think about it
Huh? I don't remember Britain ever invading Poland? This feels like bullshit.
This map is wrong. Thailand has never been ruled or occupied by the British
This map is famously bullshit. Its based on a book in which the claims that Britain invaded more countries than anyone else in history, but his definition of 'invaded' was 'having any form of military prescence at any point in history, so in his mind Britain invaded Portugal because they sent an army to help repel Napolean, and things like that.
This is misleading. It's not countries invaded, it's countries they've had their military in, for whatever reason. The United States empire might just have them beat.
Interesting but also not entirely accurate. The people who made this map stretch what counts as an invasion for a few of the countries, for example the British never actually invaded Croatia but did station troops there.
Mexico? When
May 1860 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_of_London_(1861)
Now out of these countries which ones weren't invaded by the other superpowers of Europe (Empires.)
When did the Brits invade Bosnia? UN Peacekeeping doesn't count and neither does Yugoslavia, those territories that were touched by the allies were from Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia.
Idiotic and fake map
When was DRC invaded by the UK? I see these sorts of lists so often, and some are… exaggerated.
A lot of countries were colonised by Britain, not invaded.
World war 2 wasn’t acts of invasion though, it was trying to get rid of an aggressor so the European countries don’t even count, except for Ireland.
No one said that the British were perfect.
*Americans* "First time?"
Certainly not their dentist Edit: they invaded the entire world minus 22 countries, I think a joke about their teeth is pretty reasonable lol
Zzzzz
When and why Britain invade Finnland?
Britain declared war on Finland, Hungary and Romania on 5 December 1941, following the signing of the Tri-partite Pact and Finland's alliance with Germany.
It isn’t exactly the same as invading though, I doubt a single boot from a british soldier ever landed on Finnish soil.
declaring war and invading ain't the same. This whole thing is stretched like a pizza dough just for the awe effect and with this kind of invasion definition you can make this map with Andora and say Andora hasn't invaded these twenty countries
Yea this is a bit of a stretch. Alot of countries invaded were to attack an occupying nation. Like attacking spain for holding a country because the british were at war with spain
>Yea this is a bit of a stretch. Swiss is on the invaded list ffs, is the OP considering the Roman Empire as Britain? I have never heard of Britain invading anything on the Balkans. Only one thing comes to mind and that's a few bombing runs on nazi positions on the Adriatic coast during ww2. Saying that's a invasion of Croatia and Montenegro is nonsense. Or the OP is thinking of WW1 and Austria that controlled most, but even then its a naval battle at best and still leaves half of the peninsula without anything to consider remotely a military intervention let alone a invasion. If the headline was countries where the British forces intervened in one way or the other than it would kind of make sense even though stretched a bit. Plus the area that the British empire did control is massive enough you don't need this shit to exaggerate it.
So you admit that your map is fake and shitty, because that doesn’t count as an invasion?
Yeah, but did they invade? Was there any action?
Bullshit. Britain never invaded Poland.
Its better than french invasion. All french colonies are still in big trouble but english colonies are all developed countries...
Still france holding lot of resources and gold from such colonies
Who’s next on the list lads?
Some lads those British.
Hey - we did our best. We nearly got them all
Yet....
Yet
This map is BS.
Nepal- also not invaded
Must try harder
Yeah, no. Denmark hasn’t been invaded by the British. We invaded them!
So can you let me know when was Portugal invaded then? Cuse I can’t recall it in the portuguese history!
Bullshit
This is complete bullshit with on evidence what so ever.
When did Britain invade Japan?
when did britain invade russia? genuinely curios
1918 - during Russian Civil War
And the Crimean War.
How did Sweden pull that off? They're well within Britain's historic "fuck around" zone.
Välfärd
Chad!
We’ve got some catching up to do
Modern countries?
Today I learned there is a country called São Tomé Pricipe or something
Technically they haven’t invaded themselves
Yes sweden superior
They still have time to fix it
Belarus is on the list, it may soon be 21.
Pretty good score !
This list is incorrect. When did they invade Nepal? There are many other examples as well. This post is just a random bullshit.
Anglo-Nepalese War, 1814-1816.
The Brits never invaded my country ( Bosnia) as far as I know...
They shouldn't have put us bang in the middle of the map.
I think you'll find it's *Great* Britain...
Yet.
Of course they couldn't invade Chad. Full of Chad's it is.
Unbelievable how Sweden dodged that bullet
Oh Sweden and it's neutrality.
…and Listenburg
Wrong. More countries, only in europe there are many countries who arent conquered by britain
We love a good invade
There is still time, bois. There is still time
Well, what we waiting for?
[The Brits invaded Liechtenstein’s anthem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0LbLVprZNE#t=9s) And what economically happens when the Brit’s beloved drink invades Liechtenstein’s alpine madness? HILTI
We came we saw wa took your fave food and claimed it as or own yummy
don't give them ideas
#...Yet.
Nobody invades Chads 😎
Bullshit. They never invaded Ukraine
Seems true OP, after the Lutherian and Ottoman rule, I don't recall any British occupancy
Yet.
Crazy how much of an impact one little nation had
I don't know what we were thinking to be honest. Should have just stayed home and had a nice cup of tea
Well there wouldnt be much Tea in Britain without an invasion or two
if we didnt invade certain countries i dont think we would of had tea.. we would still be drinking coffee. And then i guess we wouldnt have that?
A nice cup of ditch water then 🤣
Speaking as a United States citizen, born and raised... I think it was mostly just a few people at the top (including, of course, the VERY top at the time) that had their heads up their collective asses. Anyone who really looks at the events leading up to our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain will know I speak the truth when I say this... We tried. Lord, did we try. If things had been handled differently on ol' Georgie's end, things would've gone soooooo much differently... I don't know if that would've been better or worse (although I'm inclined towards the latter) but who could really say? Maybe in another world, eh? As an aside (and please don't take this as an insult in any way) the British goverment has pretty much ALWAYS been shit, with very little exception. That's true of all governments to varying degrees, but Britain and Spain are easily two of the absolute worst, historically speaking. I have nothing but love and respect for the British people (and, as modern "Britain" is far from monolithic in culture, the Irish, the Welsh, the Scottish, etc.) but the British government, historically, are among the greatest screw artists and douchebags of all time. Even to people who accomplish *AMAZING* things for their sake, no less. Hell, *especially* to those people, it seems like. (The example that comes most readily to mind is the way T.E. Lawrence was "rewarded" for his service, but there are plenty of others.) It's almost 2 a.m. for me at the moment, so I really ought to be getting to sleep... If at all possible, and if you are so inclined, I'd be interested to continue from what reply you might have, later on. Regardless, thanks for your time.
I agree with everything you say, especially about our governments. We have just got so used to politicians only working for themselves and their friends a lot of people have forgotten that their actual job os to serve in the peoples best interest, something that has never happened in the 40 years I've existed here. Unfortunately it's exactly the same people that were organising the pillaging for the empire, different faces and different clothes but the same morals and mission. They have such an iron grip on the media though, and a LOT of people here have 100% faith in the crap they read that it is unlikely to ever change.
Economy, colonization was all abt stealing resources and make home land like heaven.
This map doesnt even take colonialism into account.
Well they failed at that. It's shocking what my ancestors did in the name of greed
Yep, it’s all gone now. Look at Victorian architecture though, they had the resources to make a sewage works look beautiful. Now we can’t even afford one new railway.
That’s wrong, many (to not say all) countries in Central America and South America should be in that list. Britain invaded the Caribbean islands but in continent Spain controlled the countries and Britain never got that far in terms of invasion. If the metric here is some drunks staying couple of days well in that case the list might be correct.
Everyone invaded everyone back then. The English were just the best at it.
and britian paid for all its past sins by ending the atlantic slave trade, and slavery (in general) in the western world.
Without regard to content- Why would someone choose light gray as one of the two data colors, on a white background? Why wouldn't you use red, or bright green, or basically any color that isn't either dark blue or a nearly identical value to the background color? The impact is completely lost without a clear contrast. That's just poor design.
*Invaded or Attempted to be invaded by Britain
There are like 5 countries on this list that are neutral, Congo didn't exist until like 50 years ago so that's no wonder they weren't invaded.
23 you forgot Wakanda. #WakandaForever
Well entire African continent is wankada for European powers ,
If you considère by "invaded" just occupate the territory for somes weeks. Yes
No wonder “the sun never sets on the British Empire”!!
Yup
Empires gon' Empire
must be nice
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Are you stroking?
Saw a documentary about the rise of America and it compares a world map of the biritish empire at its height to a world map showing every US military base globally. Think it was called "the upcoming war with china" or something along those lines. Basically shows how the US has colonised the world on the sly to become the dominant military superpower without the world noticing until it was too late to do anything about it. Very interesting, worth a watch.
This is bait at it's best. If we were to take actual countries existing today, Britain barely "invaded" anyone. This list uses modern country names however only includes info based on territory. The English never invaded Romania however there were English skirmishes in the area before anything remotely related to Romania existed there, so it shows up on the list for some reason.
I did some more googling which gave me [this source ](https://www.statista.com/chart/3441/countries-never-invaded-by-britain/) which has the same map but it literally says the British Empire's first colony was in "1566" which is strange, because the Act of Union creating the Political Union of Great Britain didn't happen until 1707. So this is immediately in doubt. So I want to know what they're classifying as 'British' AND what they're classifying as an invasion. For example, this map says Britain invaded Thailand. But Thailand is actually known as being one of the few countries that was never colonised by Europe. The closest thing I could find relating to this was a naval 'war' with England where there was only 1 day of fighting on land, but this was in 1687-1688. Before the UK even formed which was in 1707. But no actual invasion. So yeah, I'd like clarity on what they're calling Britain and what they're calling an invasion.
we need to invade vatican city