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Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/history
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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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (2 children)

France and Britain have a long history of warfare.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I think they still deserve some invasion for their awful food (jelly and honey glazed carrots). They need some education and it can only happens with some kind of war.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Warfare and invasion are not the same thing.

[–] athairmor 22 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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