No empire is without mistakes, but the British Empire was easily the best. Almost every regretful action was either penalized or the perpetrators devastated by what they had done. I'm sure there are exceptions, but for the most part, these were people trying to bring peace to the world, including abolishing slavery, not just for themselves but any prospective allies, Honored to be descended from them. My grandfather was a colonial police commissioner, and was asked back by the African nation he served in for an honor parade, which he attended with tears in his eyes 50 years later, and they still respected him. No one will tell his story.
I very much appreciate the efforts of the poster, who managed to connect together so many impressive portrayals of Great Britain at war. It's a pity that the available material missed such a great chunk of history that Agincourt was connected directly to the American war of Independence, so many centuries later. No Spanish Armada, no English civil war and the irrevocable establishment of parliamentary democracy, no Seven Years War and so very much else in the nation's vast history. Of course, Great Britain's contribution to world history was far more than fighting and winning wars. The Empire spread the rule of law, free commerce and prosperity to the world. Under British rule, a quarter of the world's population came to know the meaning of blind justice, the suppression of old tribal hostilities and a prosperity that had never before been possible, all under an overarching philosophy born out of the European enlightenment. It was a job left undone. The premature fall of the empire led to Indians and Pakistanis facing off with nuclear weapons, to African and Caribbean nations dissolving into barbaric anarchy, to the suppression of freedom in places like Hong Kong and to a new hegemony by people who have cultivated conflict in the interests of their own profit and who, at the time of writing, are very close to risking nuclear war (no names, no pack drill, but you may guess who I mean). Sorry, but I suppose that I'm just an old, unapologetic imperialist. I think that the world is much the worse for the loss of the British Empire.
@@johnt3606 With all due respect the impact to Western civilization was far greater with the British Empire by a long way - just the fact that we are communicating in English proves my point. Besides, What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@@thegreatone-australia1851 the Romans and Greeks created our civilazation and the British and Spanish spread it to the new world, that's why the Romans are greater.
Nicely done. Sums up Henry 8th to the present. We are not now that strength which moved earth and heaven made weak by time and fate.One equal temper of heroic hearts
oooohhhh....so thats where the british fighting spirit went...I wonder where it has gone these days. That was why we were called the British lionhearts Great video and tracks.
ironically, if all those boys had not died.... we would still be able to recognise britain today! there are more english in the south wales valleys than welsh, as all the ones with money and sense have bailed out of england! Abertillery is now Bristollery, whilst Bristol is ......
A fool and his empire are easily parted. Unfortunately London did not understand how "balance of power" works. Most debates are a completely pointless waste of time, same as 99% of all "history books". Ancillary details being regurgitated again and again, in efforts to distract from what really happened. Ever since the establishment of "Empire", London aimed to protect it, by (as a matter policy), making the strongest continental power/alliance the rival in peace/enemy in war. London's "fatal mistake", was "snuggling up" to The American Century, thinking it would save the "Empire"... London was always going to oppose the strongest continental country/power/alliance, as a default setting. By own admission: "The equilibrium established by such a grouping of forces is technically known as the balance of power, and it has become almost an historical truism to identify England’s secular policy with the maintenance of this balance by throwing her weight now in this scale and now in that, but ever on the side, opposed to the political dictatorship of the strongest single, State or group at any time." [From Primary source material:Memorandum_on_the_Present_State_of_British_Relations_with_France_and_Germany] In a nutshell, oppose every major diplomatic advance made by the strongest continental power in times of peace, and ally against it in times of war. Because the own policy meant that London shied away from making binding commitments with continental powers, as a matter of policy, London set off to look for "new friends"... EPISODE 1: "By 1901, many influential Britons advocated for a closer relationship between the two countries. W. T. Stead even proposed that year in The Americanization of the World for both to merge to unify the English-speaking world, as doing so would help Britain "continue for all time to be an integral part of the greatest of all World-Powers, supreme on sea and unassailable on land, permanently delivered from all fear of hostile attack, and capable of wielding irresistible influence in all parts of this planet." [Google: The_Great_Rapprochement] Sooooo gweat. Everybody "speaking English" and being "best fwiends". *What could possibly go wrong?* EPISODE V: "At the end of the war [WW2], Britain, physically devastated and financially bankrupt, lacked factories to produce goods for rebuilding, the materials to rebuild the factories or purchase the machines to fill them, or with the money to pay for any of it. Britain’s situation was so dire, the government sent the economist John Maynard Keynes with a delegation to the US to beg for financial assistance, claiming that Britain was facing a "financial Dunkirk”. The Americans were willing to do so, on one condition: They would supply Britain with the financing, goods and materials to rebuild itself, but dictated that Britain must first eliminate those Sterling Balances by repudiating all its debts to its colonies. The alternative was to receive neither assistance nor credit from the US. Britain, impoverished and in debt, with no natural resources and no credit or ability to pay, had little choice but to capitulate. And of course with all receivables cancelled and since the US could produce today, those colonial nations had no further reason for refusing manufactured goods from the US. The strategy was successful. By the time Britain rebuilt itself, the US had more or less captured all of Britain’s former colonial markets, and for some time after the war’s end the US was manufacturing more than 50% of everything produced in the world. And that was the end of the British Empire, and the beginning of the last stage of America’s rise." [globalresearch(dot)ca/save-queen/5693500] Brits being squeezed like a lemon by US banks, having their Pound crushed by the US dominated IMF, being refused the mutually developed nukes to act as a deterrent against the SU's expansion, munching on war rations till way into the 1950s, losing the Suez Canal in a final attempt at "acting tough" and imposing hegemony over a vital sphere of interest...and going under...lol, "third fiddle" in the "Concerto de Cold War"... Maybe they should have informed themselves how "empires" tick, because there was another "ring". A "ring which ruled them all". The American Century. So they woke up one morning, only to discover that their "best fwiends forever" had stolen all their best markets. Now, fill in the blanks yourself. EPISODES II THRU IV... Fake "narratives" of a supposed "Anglo-German Naval Arms Race" by "nasty Wilhelm" (reality = it was an international naval arms race, which included the USA/The American Century®). Fake "narratives" like "the USA was on our side in WW1, and an ally" = total bs. (Reality? By own acknowledgement, they were "an associated power", and they fought for the American Century®) Fill in the gaps. See "the handwriting" of London's Policy of Balance of Power: at Versailles, at Saint-Germaine...everywhere. Then there was another war. A result of the failed peace of the 1st: the totally flawed decision to concentrate most resources in an attempt to "flatten Germany". Reality? A large Strategic Air Force is one of the most expensive forms of warfare ever devised. "Flattening Germany" as a matter of policy, as flawed as trying to "snuggle up" to a faraway "empire", in order to try and save the own...
Long live the British Empire.
glory to the British peoples may we return to the moral compass that guided the world to a modern age.
We ARE a warrior race..until recent times we have forgotton it...not no more, the lion awakes!
No empire is without mistakes, but the British Empire was easily the best. Almost every regretful action was either penalized or the perpetrators devastated by what they had done. I'm sure there are exceptions, but for the most part, these were people trying to bring peace to the world, including abolishing slavery, not just for themselves but any prospective allies, Honored to be descended from them.
My grandfather was a colonial police commissioner, and was asked back by the African nation he served in for an honor parade, which he attended with tears in his eyes 50 years later, and they still respected him. No one will tell his story.
He was B.A.S.P?
I very much appreciate the efforts of the poster, who managed to connect together so many impressive portrayals of Great Britain at war. It's a pity that the available material missed such a great chunk of history that Agincourt was connected directly to the American war of Independence, so many centuries later. No Spanish Armada, no English civil war and the irrevocable establishment of parliamentary democracy, no Seven Years War and so very much else in the nation's vast history.
Of course, Great Britain's contribution to world history was far more than fighting and winning wars. The Empire spread the rule of law, free commerce and prosperity to the world. Under British rule, a quarter of the world's population came to know the meaning of blind justice, the suppression of old tribal hostilities and a prosperity that had never before been possible, all under an overarching philosophy born out of the European enlightenment. It was a job left undone. The premature fall of the empire led to Indians and Pakistanis facing off with nuclear weapons, to African and Caribbean nations dissolving into barbaric anarchy, to the suppression of freedom in places like Hong Kong and to a new hegemony by people who have cultivated conflict in the interests of their own profit and who, at the time of writing, are very close to risking nuclear war (no names, no pack drill, but you may guess who I mean).
Sorry, but I suppose that I'm just an old, unapologetic imperialist. I think that the world is much the worse for the loss of the British Empire.
But what if....British had not had an empire to enslave others...what if
Still the greatest empire the World has ever seen.
Fax
Behind Rome of course
@@johnt3606 With all due respect the impact to Western civilization was far greater with the British Empire by a long way - just the fact that we are communicating in English proves my point.
Besides, What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@@thegreatone-australia1851 the Romans and Greeks created our civilazation and the British and Spanish spread it to the new world, that's why the Romans are greater.
@johnt3606 nay, we out did Rome. They'd be proud one of their former territories took up the mantle
War of Roses-Suez Crisis long live the British empire
No Cod Wars? Where's the battle for Brexit?
Long live the British Empire
God Save The King!
Nicely done. Sums up Henry 8th to the present.
We are not now that strength which moved earth and heaven made weak by time and fate.One equal temper of heroic hearts
Neil Hellens: Shouldn’t that actually be Henry V (At Agincourt in 1415) until the present time?
Long live the empire
Long live the empire
That empire is long gone into the dust forever
@@EdwardSWessonJr-kz5el Treason!
It ain't dead yet brother
@@EdwardSWessonJr-kz5el nope
A great empire ,the envy of the world
Old men and their pride of whatever... makes them send young men to their end😢
Everyone dies. Not everyone lives for something.
what can I say- us brits DO LIKE a good fight! lol
oooohhhh....so thats where the british fighting spirit went...I wonder where it has gone these days.
That was why we were called the British lionhearts
Great video and tracks.
It’s still there and will rise again
@@honeybadger6313 YES IT IS you arer absolutely correct. It IS RISING now.
What has happened to our great country....
We have fallen into a ruin, we are but the husk of the empire
not a p'aki incite haha
WE are being invaded and our children brainwashed by left wing facists.
I'm glad the British Empire has ended. But it was not entirely evil. Still proud to be British (even if I am probably not a "proper" Englishman)
Oh the good old days 🇬🇧
Victory to the Empire! What is this song I love it
It's time to bring back our glory
how great were Churchill and Thatcher!
Churchill yes but thatcher no. She bullied Northern Ireland; abandoned Rhodesia and South Africa and was a woman
thatcher are you kidding
Don't forget Nigel farage ,Nigel saved Britain and in time put the great back into Britain
There will always be an England 🇬🇧
From the USA...we love and respect our cousins....Empire?..I personally wish you still had it..but you are going down hill fast Scot Greys forever!!!
Why do we keep apologising and penalising ourselves?. Oh because Russia and China would not-are we therefore so very bad? And THEY so very good?..
ironically, if all those boys had not died.... we would still be able to recognise britain today! there are more english in the south wales valleys than welsh, as all the ones with money and sense have bailed out of england! Abertillery is now Bristollery, whilst Bristol is ......
Long live the Holy romen Empire of german nations
We owe no allegiance to Rome and the evil cultist who reside there.
look where not being collective has got us, i can't see one taxi driver or takeaway deliver here? wonder why?
Showing the Americans outnumbered. Fucking got to laught
Mks nationality
Help me....im.. maksud Alam mollick khanakul
'British empire' and it starts with something English, typical.
How else exactly is it supposed to start? Without sounding like an ethnonationalist please.
@@OnCydig something British.
@@Bruce-1956 So you think it should've started with depictions of after the United Kingdom's formation?
@@OnCydig correct. The title is 'British Empire'.
Whit out Frederick the Great, England would never have created its global empire
A fool and his empire are easily parted.
Unfortunately London did not understand how "balance of power" works.
Most debates are a completely pointless waste of time, same as 99% of all "history books".
Ancillary details being regurgitated again and again, in efforts to distract from what really happened.
Ever since the establishment of "Empire", London aimed to protect it, by (as a matter policy), making the strongest continental power/alliance the rival in peace/enemy in war.
London's "fatal mistake", was "snuggling up" to The American Century, thinking it would save the "Empire"...
London was always going to oppose the strongest continental country/power/alliance, as a default setting.
By own admission:
"The equilibrium established by such a grouping of forces is technically known as the balance of power, and it has become almost an historical truism to identify England’s secular policy with the maintenance of this balance by throwing her weight now in this scale and now in that, but ever on the side, opposed to the political dictatorship of the strongest single, State or group at any time."
[From Primary source material:Memorandum_on_the_Present_State_of_British_Relations_with_France_and_Germany]
In a nutshell, oppose every major diplomatic advance made by the strongest continental power in times of peace, and ally against it in times of war. Because the own policy meant that London shied away from making binding commitments with continental powers, as a matter of policy, London set off to look for "new friends"...
EPISODE 1:
"By 1901, many influential Britons advocated for a closer relationship between the two countries. W. T. Stead even proposed that year in The Americanization of the World for both to merge to unify the English-speaking world, as doing so would help Britain "continue for all time to be an integral part of the greatest of all World-Powers, supreme on sea and unassailable on land, permanently delivered from all fear of hostile attack, and capable of wielding irresistible influence in all parts of this planet."
[Google: The_Great_Rapprochement]
Sooooo gweat.
Everybody "speaking English" and being "best fwiends".
*What could possibly go wrong?*
EPISODE V:
"At the end of the war [WW2], Britain, physically devastated and financially bankrupt, lacked factories to produce goods for rebuilding, the materials to rebuild the factories or purchase the machines to fill them, or with the money to pay for any of it. Britain’s situation was so dire, the government sent the economist John Maynard Keynes with a delegation to the US to beg for financial assistance, claiming that Britain was facing a "financial Dunkirk”. The Americans were willing to do so, on one condition: They would supply Britain with the financing, goods and materials to rebuild itself, but dictated that Britain must first eliminate those Sterling Balances by repudiating all its debts to its colonies. The alternative was to receive neither assistance nor credit from the US. Britain, impoverished and in debt, with no natural resources and no credit or ability to pay, had little choice but to capitulate. And of course with all receivables cancelled and since the US could produce today, those colonial nations had no further reason for refusing manufactured goods from the US. The strategy was successful. By the time Britain rebuilt itself, the US had more or less captured all of Britain’s former colonial markets, and for some time after the war’s end the US was manufacturing more than 50% of everything produced in the world. And that was the end of the British Empire, and the beginning of the last stage of America’s rise."
[globalresearch(dot)ca/save-queen/5693500]
Brits being squeezed like a lemon by US banks, having their Pound crushed by the US dominated IMF, being refused the mutually developed nukes to act as a deterrent against the SU's expansion, munching on war rations till way into the 1950s, losing the Suez Canal in a final attempt at "acting tough" and imposing hegemony over a vital sphere of interest...and going under...lol, "third fiddle" in the "Concerto de Cold War"...
Maybe they should have informed themselves how "empires" tick, because there was another "ring".
A "ring which ruled them all".
The American Century.
So they woke up one morning, only to discover that their "best fwiends forever" had stolen all their best markets.
Now, fill in the blanks yourself.
EPISODES II THRU IV...
Fake "narratives" of a supposed "Anglo-German Naval Arms Race" by "nasty Wilhelm" (reality = it was an international naval arms race, which included the USA/The American Century®).
Fake "narratives" like "the USA was on our side in WW1, and an ally" = total bs. (Reality? By own acknowledgement, they were "an associated power", and they fought for the American Century®)
Fill in the gaps.
See "the handwriting" of London's Policy of Balance of Power: at Versailles, at Saint-Germaine...everywhere.
Then there was another war. A result of the failed peace of the 1st: the totally flawed decision to concentrate most resources in an attempt to "flatten Germany". Reality? A large Strategic Air Force is one of the most expensive forms of warfare ever devised. "Flattening Germany" as a matter of policy, as flawed as trying to "snuggle up" to a faraway "empire", in order to try and save the own...