how a 400 years of loot plunder rapes massacres and genocide of indigenous peoples around the world by the evil minded bruitishers can be covered in just a 10 minutes video.
Im surprised that wholesale opium addiction of the chinese peoples by the British was not included in this list. You need to do an episode with one on the opium wars and the boxer rebellion.
kenrick johnson/ true enough but the brits were the big dog in that fight. IMPERIAL TWILIGHT The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age By Stephen R. Platt Illustrated. 556 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $35. A century before its finest hour, the British Empire went through what may have been its darkest. After China declared a war on drugs in 1839, confiscating well over 1,000 tons of opium from dealers - mostly British - in Canton (modern Guangzhou), the cartels pressured their government back in London into demanding that Beijing repay them the full street value of their narcotics. When the emperor refused, a squadron of Britain’s most up-to-date warships arrived in 1840 to brush aside the Celestial Empire’s junks and blast its coastal towns into ruins. British troops slaughtered civilians up and down China’s coast. “Many most barbarous things occurred disgraceful to our men,” one officer confessed. Critics compared the opium trade to the recently banned slave trade. The London government almost fell. In China, the Opium War gradually came to be seen as the beginning of a century of humiliations at Western hands.
Sorry, Simon, but the Dutch V.O.C. really gets the prize for being the first Evil Corporation. the British version was modelled after that shining example some 57 years later.
The real shock is that a small country with a population of only 10-15 million was capable of creating such a vast empire. You can blame the British Empire for a lot of things but not the divisions within the Islamic world which have existed since the 8th century.
Could have made way more than 7. The man made famine of Ireland which killed 1 million and displaced 1 million people while the british government increased food exportation from Ireland being one example. Also the invention of Concentration Camps in the Boer War off the top of my head!
Wow, did this ever gloss over a bunch of bad stuff! What about the invention of the concentration camp during the Boer War where thousands of Boer women and children starved to death? You easily could have had the requisite ten items.
The Brits didn't invent concentration camps they modernized a military tactic that was common in Rome. Look up Julius Caesar in Gaul. He and his troops built walls and embankments around armies and cities to prevent reinforcements, information, civilians or supplies from getting in or out. Although it is a messed up strategy either way.
@Ransom Bits And that justified starving thousands of women and children? Besides, the Brits belatedly developed moral indignation against slavery after having transported millions of Africans to the Americas to be sold as slaves. I'm an Anglophile, but not because I can't see their faults.
@J SI'm tempted to just reply, "So?" Both actions were reprehensible. Are you suggesting that you Brits were justified in the concentration camps because you had some super advanced knowledge that the Afrikaaners would institute apartheid 50 years later?
@Sarvesh More lol have you not seen how they developed cause there were more than British people here in india, french, Dutch and moguls, and Portuguese. people here idk how you can pass judgement while living in the 21st century on a 19 century people.
Afghan being the focal point for some weird reason? Maybe it’s something to do with it being the home to so much of the worlds opium supply...just a thought
That was just a bonus, as far as I am aware the main reason for the focus on afghanistan was to create a buffer zone between british holdings in india and the russian empire.
The opium was introduced to the area as a staple crop, surprisingly the Jihadists sought to destroy the opium production and make the country self-suficiant again. Now it is back to producing opium again...
I am surprised this video was even created. I absolutley respect this channel for its information. Even when I have to face harsh negative truths, I trust that you're doing your best to avoid bias and just inform. Than you Simon, 😇 With that said... "Efficiently securing natural resources from colonies." Or Violently invading other people's land, enslaving, indenturing, raping, pillaging/ stealing/ destroying, at cannon point and/or gun point, their culture, & causing their near extinction due to disease... I mean... let's be real about the evil.
Did the irish 'famine' not happen then ?.....more people died from this imposed hunger caused by redirection of food to england...if that is what you like to call it
Simon - "...and we're assuming that all of them are just sort of ok with the arrangement..." Foil Arms and Hog - "I just sort of assumed that they were mine, is that weird?" 😂🤣😂
Yes & our very own Mangal Pandey was leader of first war of Independence & people like Rani laxmi bai,Bahadur shah,Liayakat ali, Tantya tope also took part in that war
@@deniseleach152 thks. I did watch that video when it came out. It is how I heard about the hands and feet. I was appalled. This was done to children too.
If you haven't been introduced to George MacDonald Fraser's fictional Victorian soldier, Flashman, I can strongly recommend the books. The first book, "Flashman," is specifically about the British retreat from Afghanistan in 1842. "Flashman in the Great Game" is about the Sepoy mutiny. Fraser put this poor character through every conflict from 1842 on, with Flashman managing to survive by lying, cheating, stealing, and screwing his way through them all.
Flashman is very accurate, except for Flashman being fictional. Some of those Brits were apparently taken prisoner and released later, but initially only one British soldier made it through.
The canadians were the British until they decided that they wanted independance and re-branded with their own flag. Historically speaking the Canadians and British are largely the same people. Hope that helps.
@Ros3NburG Some are yes. The country as a whole was British, but they let some of the French colonisers stay after the land was surrendered to the British after some war. The country is largely considered to be British in origin, but obviously the details are a tad more complicated than just that.
@@BigBoomOfDoom2 Big percentage of Canada as of now are immigrants from different countries other that Europe. And gosh French & British are friend-enemies and you want to tell Canada is British, remember French also have colonies in Canada (proven fact the great block of Catholics in Canada today) before they renounce those, French is also another language of Canada and your acting as if it only British
I'm sorry but i stopped at 0.54. 'Prominent role in the establishment of the slave trade?' Whilst the British empire did in fact feature prominently in those actions so did every great power for the last 6 THOUSAND years+. Including French, Spanish, US, Dutch, Ancient Roman, Ottoman, Ancient Greek, Ancient Egypt how far do you want to go?. Whilst i never want to hide the things the British empire inflicted upon others i cant watch another hatchet job with no context. For example whilst the British(and all other major global powers) partook in the slave trade it was the Might and Wealth of the British Empire that also eventually ENDED the global slave trade.
Thank you Simon for publicly acknowledging these events. As an (Pre-revolution) Iranian American I believe it's important that the public should realize that some of the fallout of international relations is due to the meddling of foreign powers. At the same time it's unlikely that the naive are actively seeking out information contradictory to the propaganda machines.
Can't mention the British empire without mentioning its origins in Ireland, the British colonized Ireland in the 1500s the tudors and many of the British who colonized America got there start in ireland known as the west country men. Irish culture is very much a reaction to English and British colonialism in Ireland in the 1500s. Then there is the Irish famine which was the fault of the British government in ireland in the 1800s.
No they dint the British only had influence in 2 tiny areas in Ireland during the American colonisation, England during that time only said Ireland was part of Britain n under British rule, they weren't actually over there running owt
1. Britain was a constitutional monarchy, a democracy with a titular royal head, 2. Britain spread the ethos of the Bill of Rights, Act of Toleration and Magna Carta to the world, leaving our colonies as democracies. 3. Britain didn't start civil conflicts within its' colonies, they were already there and only rematerialized after we left, 4. Britain tried to help the Bengal famine but the priority was winning the war, what sort of famine relief would the Imperial Japanese Army have performed? 5. Find me the solution to the Middle East's problems, they began thousands of years before Britain existed? 6. Hardly Britain's fault the Nazis admired our culture yet perverted it? In truth the British Empire was no worse than everyone else's and better than practically all others.
You're simply a British apologist... the British Empire is the most diabolical and destructive Empire in the modern-era!!!! You talk about the Middle East, Israel and Palestine are fighting a war today because of Britain.... South Africa and America have the racial divides they have today because of Britain's racist legacy as it is the one that sowed the apartheid seeds in SA and also created the racial problems in America such as conceptualizing the one-drop rule or the downright annihilation of Native Americans... They also annihilated the Oceanian Indigenes (despite the fact that the time difference between US/Canada's contact with the British is more than 100 years- a mistake done repeatedly is a choice) The Boer genocide, the Irish genocide and the impoverishment of Ireland, the brutalities committed in India and China as well as their impoverishment 😢 Britain in its essence is devilish and destructive 🤮😱😈
@@matthewdaley746 how can you be American and Irish or are you 1 of them Americans that say they are Irish without ever stepping foot on the emerald isle ...
Did the British commit atrocities in India? They sure did. But it pales in comparison to the horrific atrocities of the muslim Mughal Empire. And the British invasion of India helped drive out the Mughal Empire in what is present-day India: the last Mughal was deposed by the British East India Company in 1858.
Mughals were already in decline when British started conquering. They beat Maratha empire for control. British did some fked up things and they were super racist. They were far worse than Nazis. But may be humanism wasn't a thing back then. But they are a part of indian identity now.
So has murder and death but doesn't make some more shocking or horrific than others. They revolutionized slavery for the worse and then America learned from them and figured out ways to make it even worse than them!
@@Peecamarke We stopped it....and prevented it happening in other areas of the world and again it was Africa and Middle East who actually began slave trading, The Dutch actually started it in Europe.
Don't forget also that not only is it one of the first human trading systems, still does go on today, was still practised by the Barbary Pirates (Algerian, Tunisian, Moroccan ...) up till the middle of the 19th century, and the British were the first to not only stop it, but to try and stop other countries doing it, almost resulting in wars with France, USA (very close), Spain and The Netherlands ...
Strange, you forgot about the +- 40000 South Africans that died in British concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer war between 1901 and 1902. Hopefully Simon will bring this up in Part 2 of 'Shocking Facts About the British Empire...'
Hey, just cos I fell out of my mum's clacker in Cleethorpes doesn't make me, or anyone else in my family, responsible for the deeds of the British Empire, and I am therefore, not ashamed to be British. (I'm ashamed to be from Cleethorpes, but that's only common sense)
dont sack cleethorpes my dude, my family was poor when i was a child and all my family holidays were in cleethorpes and i loved it i can still taste johnny doughnuts on the sea front.
Simon, it would be a dark day for TH-cam as all your channels are top notch and a daily routine of many a viewer, that being said. Would you consider being the new host of Jeopardy? I think Mr. Trebek would be honoured.
@@paulfennelly9884 Give me one example of how it was a genocide? It was a result of mismanagement and a terrible blight which effected the rest of Europe too.
@@eeksdification3288 the slowness of the British reaction to Ireland. Yes, there was issues with potato blight in Europe, and in Scotland it was tackled almost immediately. Perfect opportunity to quell the rebellious sentiment in Ireland
@@paulfennelly9884 Slow reaction doesn't mean genocide, mismanagement doesn't mean Genocide... Genocide would mean it was a concentrated effort to eradicate the Irish, it wasn't...
Probably worth mentioning that the cartridges for the Enfield rifles in India weren't actually coated with animal fat, but vegetable fat to allow for the sensitivities of the religions. It's thought that Russia was responsible for the spreading of the rumour, as they often acted to undermine British efforts in India with a view to expanding into the area from the North.
I've often cited Sykes/Picot as one reason for so much of the turmoil in the Middle East. One could say the same for the continent of Africa, and the various colonial powers that divided it up among themselves, without regard for the people who actually lived there. Once the colonial rule ended, corporations took over as neocolonialists - helping to install rulers friendly to the corporations, again without regard for the people in those countries. And the US certainly doesn't have 'clean hands' in this regard, either. We've certainly done our share of interference in foreign countries, from Central and South America to Iran and later, to Iraq and Afghanistan.
@J S ...and then we jumped right into the slave trade, didn't we? You simply proved what I was saying - that outside, foreign countries were interfering in large part on the African continent, for centuries. I think Africa should have been left to Africans - regardless of what each kingdom or tribe was doing.
@J S Oh, give me a break. Racist? Please... That's so easy - slap a label on something, and problem solved. I'm all for trade and cultural exchange - just not exploitation, which is exactly what both Europe and the US did in from the 17th through the early 20th centuries in Africa, Central and South America, Indonesia, etc. It's what corporations - and sometimes governments - still do that I object to. So get over yourself, and take a step down from your high horse.
@J S I just don't see any point in further argument. You've guessed wrong about me on every count, yet you seem to have a strong need to be 'right'. So why bother correcting you? You don't know anything about me, other than what you've chosen to assume. If it makes you feel strong and smart to believe you've 'owned' me, that's fine with me. I don't care. :)
aaand cue lots of comments from people who werent even in the empire moaning about how awful it was. Realistically the British empire was predominantly built on trade, and was significantly less brutal than most other empires. The Brits were the first to end slavery, even before America or France, and when colonised countries were surrendered to the natives massacres and war crimes were rare. Canada went peacefully, as did Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, and to a great extent, India. No colonised nation has since collapsed and most have flourished because of British influence.
They invaded Ireland, banned the language and religion, and killed anyone who didn't like it for 800 years. How dare you say forced invasion of a country made them flourish. I presume you learned your history in a British school?
Technically France ended slavery first in 1794 until it was reestablished in 1802 by Napoleon. France abolished its slave trade in 1815 and abolished the slave trade in 1848. Britian abolished slavery almost purely on economic reasons. Britian displaced the indigenous people of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand with Europeans. How can you say the colonized lands are better off when the native people were displaced by foreigners? Let's not forget how they treated the Irish. The only success from the British Empire regarding colonization is Hong Kong.
You're nothing more than am apologist for British imperialism which was arguably the most devilish and destructive empire in the modern era... people like you love to whitewash Britain's dark past and legacy but the truth is the truth no matter how unpalatable and Britain caused more destruction than it ever constructed 😢🤧🙅♀️🙆♀️
During the Indian famine in 1876, orchestrated and engineered by britain, up to 29 000 000 Indians starved to death, not to mention all the livestock wiped out by the famine. The brits shipped India's food to Britain, because the brit harvests had failed. There were initial efforts to feed the Indian people, but the brit authorities put a stop to that, threatening anyone trying to stop the starvation, with severe prison sentences. There were several famines in India during british occupation, all either orchestrated by the brits, or exacerbated the famines. The last such genocidal famine, being winston churchill's Bengali famine of 1943.
If you watch his political and business channels, it’s clear that this guy is no friend of any sort of Labour or Socialist party. He’s most likely a Lib Dem. The stuff he’s saying in this video is just objective, well-chronicled historical fact per the available documentary record.
Willie Preisig Labour (I’m assuming you aren’t British based off the fact you’ve dropped the U both times) doesn’t hate Britain. Admitting that there are problems and wanting to fix them isn’t hatred. Talking like that, you sound like a (US, that is) paranoid deep-South reactionary. And besides, it’s not like there isn’t plenty to hate about Britain.
True but they are also the ones responsible for the racial divides that exist in the world today more especially Black-White relations... they're the ones who built America/Canada on dark racial creeds as well as the ones who polluted White Southern Africans with apartheid ideals... all the racist policies in SA were signed and conceptualized under British rule... you may have ended the slave trade but you're the force responsible for discrimination and dehumanizing of Blacks which is far more integral to the hyperintersified race relations that exist today than slavery which was universal and mostly a blueprint of the Islamic slave trade
Issues with this video: 1) It was mainly the Spanish and Portuguese who brought about the Atlantic slave trade but Britain were the first country in the world to ban slavery outright. 2) Both Portugal and the Netherlands had “East India companies” exactly the same but the British lasted longer because they forced the Portuguese and Dutch out 3) Nazi ideology has as much to do with the British empire as it does the French or any other such colonial empire, it’s just that the Germans have always been historically favourable to the British whilst hating the French. 4) The Bengal area was on the front line against Japanese troops, sending huge supplies to the area would be a huge drain on resources at a crucial time of the war, not to mention due to the presence of the Japanese navy the only way to safely result would have been by air thus not sufficient amounts of food would have been able to reach the Bengal area. 5) Blaming the Middle Eastern crisis on Britain is fundamentally wrong, for that you have the USA to blame. This is because in 1956 when Egyptian troops under Arab nationalist leader Nasser took control of the canal, America stabbed its two greatest allies in the back to assist Egypt thus undermining the authority of both Britain and France as the regions policemen creating a power vacuum that would be filled with warlords, USSR, and the US itself. Not to mention that the US’s intervention in the crisis meant Britain refused military aid to the Americans during the Vietnam war.
Israel and Palestine are fighting a war today because of Britain... Israel was created by Britain as that piece of land known as Israel-Palestine was colonised by the British who then decided to disregard the Indigenous peoples and bring in millions of European Jews which is the focal point of tensions in the Middle East... you people are such apologists for British imperialism but you love to point out other Empires' faults... look at your own house before you criticize others
The British and French took control of the Otaman empire on behalf of the League of Nations. They knew the territories would be independent at some point.
they had nothing to do with the establishment of slavery. Muslim north africa had been trading in slaves for centuries. in some areas they still do. disappointed that you didnt mention this to put things in context
You left out 800 years of occupation of Ireland: ravaging it's resources, the great famine, mass emigration and the troubles. The consequences of British rule are still being felt a 100 years after the revolution.
I'm sorry to sound typically British however I'm somewhat sick of the world and his dog trying to make the UK apologists for its past and moreover, trying to tie in the modern claim culture for acts that occurred way past the realms of what most legal systems would consider a statute of limitations. Quite frankly, the only reason we still get it in the neck is because we were the last of the "great" colonialists. That's not to say there was anything great about it but then, neither was there anything great about any of the other prolific empires throughout history. Is the world going to make Italy culpable for reparations due to the invasions of the Roman Empire? Are we going to make Mongolia pay for the atrocities of Ghengis Khan who, outside of the second world war, caused more fatalities than any leader in history? The answer is resoundingly "No!" So, whilst I don't condone any of the actions of my ancestors, world; get over yourself and move on...
Ghengis Khan did in mediaeval period whereas British did in morden and the problem in any part of the world is because of the British so they should apologise and now this thing it is being done by Britain's son and successor USA
YES!!!! I agree 100%!!! All of the democracies in the world owe a debt to the British Empire. They would simply not exist in their current form if not for the British Empire.
Caused is a bit of a stretch, it's not like the british government created the blight that infected the crops. Exacerbated would be a better term, they failed to implement policy to negate the effects of it and implemented policies which worsened the situation.
Apparently there was enough food to go around for to stop such an atrocity, sure as Tony Blair stated, "British Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized for doing "little" in response to the Irish Potato Famine of the 19th century that killed millions of people and brought about the emigration of millions more. So yes there was a potato blight but that there was more food sources to go around to stop millions from dying such as Corn, Crops, fish available etc. Which the British Landlords controlled and purposely kept. No protestant landlords nor catholic priests either died in the so called famine. Which many historical researchers now say was genocide not famine. Honestly Duncan just dig into it. Do some research or Google it as there are loads of article's on this topic. Now they may or may not be true?? But i don't see why any legitimate historians would publish such findings?
When you reach the height of strength and glory, you must know that your destiny will ultimately fall to the bottom ... Take the lesson from our Arab civilization .. Yesterday we were at the top and today we are at the bottom
So everyone in the vid is calling him bias because he's too "harsh" on the British Empire, meanwhile others are calling him bias cause he wasn't as harsh on them as he was on the states. Y'all need to make up your minds.
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You left out the opium war against China
Ah yes the war for drug pushing.
They did eventually realise the immorality of that and it was packed in under Victoria.
There were an enormous amount of omissions!!!
Which led to the highly successful country of Hong Kong
Everyone knows about that though
Coming up next: Part 2 - 3 more shocking facts about the British Empire
You've heard "shocking tidbits of the British Empire", "bollocks of the monarchy" , and now "British stuff that's sketchy at best"
Can you name another empire from history that had better moral standards than the British Empire? I just need one name?
I am surprised Jalianwalabagh Massacre is not included.
The British empire has done so many evil things, I'm not too suprised that some of them are missed out. The list is endless.
how a 400 years of loot plunder rapes massacres and genocide of indigenous peoples around the world by the evil minded bruitishers can be covered in just a 10 minutes video.
Im surprised that wholesale opium addiction of the chinese peoples by the British was not included in this list. You need to do an episode with one on the opium wars and the boxer rebellion.
While it could be bundled as part of the whole East India Company thing, it does deserve it's own number if not whole episode.
@@lostbutfreesoul The, "C," should probably have stood for cartel.
Nah, likely too embarrassing for Simon including running concentration camps in South Africa 3 decades earlier before the Nazi
The opium war and the boxer Rebellion wasn't just the British it was international .. between Europeans powers including America and Japan ..
kenrick johnson/ true enough but the brits were the big dog in that fight.
IMPERIAL TWILIGHT
The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age
By Stephen R. Platt
Illustrated. 556 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $35.
A century before its finest hour, the British Empire went through what may have been its darkest. After China declared a war on drugs in 1839, confiscating well over 1,000 tons of opium from dealers - mostly British - in Canton (modern Guangzhou), the cartels pressured their government back in London into demanding that Beijing repay them the full street value of their narcotics. When the emperor refused, a squadron of Britain’s most up-to-date warships arrived in 1840 to brush aside the Celestial Empire’s junks and blast its coastal towns into ruins. British troops slaughtered civilians up and down China’s coast. “Many most barbarous things occurred disgraceful to our men,” one officer confessed. Critics compared the opium trade to the recently banned slave trade. The London government almost fell. In China, the Opium War gradually came to be seen as the beginning of a century of humiliations at Western hands.
Sorry, Simon, but the Dutch V.O.C. really gets the prize for being the first Evil Corporation. the British version was modelled after that shining example some 57 years later.
Some thing to be proud of my northern neighbor
Tbh that’s fair. But Britain took it to another level.
That doesn't matter to him as it won't matter to his paymasters agenda.
Not really, since the Dutch never did rise to the level of Britisih one. It is at best a proto version.
I thought of that too. But wikipedia said, EIC was founded at 1600 while VOC was founded at 1602.
Mau Mau Rebellion?
American Independence?
Ireland?
Here are 3 more topics to round out the top ten.
But everyone knows about Ireland and America
@@jacobdenness8659 In conversation with most Brits? No, no they don't.
They did alot more to Ireland over 700 years than people think
Well I'm British and I've never met someone who didn't at least know a little about either
@Kurt Pedersen The French were inspired to have their very own revolution.
The real shock is that a small country with a population of only 10-15 million was capable of creating such a vast empire. You can blame the British Empire for a lot of things but not the divisions within the Islamic world which have existed since the 8th century.
Could have made way more than 7. The man made famine of Ireland which killed 1 million and displaced 1 million people while the british government increased food exportation from Ireland being one example. Also the invention of Concentration Camps in the Boer War off the top of my head!
And the Highland Clearances.
The export if food from Ireland was not due to the British government. It was Irish landlords. There was also a famine in England as well.
@@johnburns4017 That's just simply not true. Do some research.
@@barryellis1543
I did research, it is true. Ireland was also surrounded by fish, but they rarely ate fish. mmmmmm
@@johnburns4017 Nah, You're talking abosulte pony. Also It's pretty hard for locals to fish when the brits are the authorities.
Fun facts: If you don't know what causes war and conflicts throughout the world, pick UK. Then there is more than 50% chance you guessed correctly
Only 7 entries. I want my money back. Lol
Only 7 you probably don't know, the billion others are not well hidden.
and of course it had to have more than 10 minutes ... these trash info wannabe channels you can predict the videos before watching them lol
Wow, did this ever gloss over a bunch of bad stuff! What about the invention of the concentration camp during the Boer War where thousands of Boer women and children starved to death? You easily could have had the requisite ten items.
The Brits didn't invent concentration camps they modernized a military tactic that was common in Rome. Look up Julius Caesar in Gaul. He and his troops built walls and embankments around armies and cities to prevent reinforcements, information, civilians or supplies from getting in or out.
Although it is a messed up strategy either way.
@Ransom Bits And that justified starving thousands of women and children? Besides, the Brits belatedly developed moral indignation against slavery after having transported millions of Africans to the Americas to be sold as slaves. I'm an Anglophile, but not because I can't see their faults.
@J SI'm tempted to just reply, "So?" Both actions were reprehensible. Are you suggesting that you Brits were justified in the concentration camps because you had some super advanced knowledge that the Afrikaaners would institute apartheid 50 years later?
Britain should teach about their Empire to their people.
we brits dont teaching,,we just know
"I claim India for Britain."
"You can't claim us we live here."
"Do you have a flag?"
- Eddie Izzard
lol they were given part of country for merchant factory by nizams or kings.
@Sarvesh More lol have you not seen how they developed cause there were more than British people here in india, french, Dutch and moguls, and Portuguese. people here idk how you can pass judgement while living in the 21st century on a 19 century people.
@@abramslion1 and now they are crying in small island.with indian origin hm
@9:36 You mention the British Invasion of Afghanistan starting in 1938 and finishing in 1942. I'm pretty sure that you meant 100 years earlier.
Britain invading afghan in ww2 lol
Yeah what he said 1938 and 1842 but it’s 1838
I sometimes forget that Britain never controlled even half of the continental USA. Our heritage is as much Spanish/Mexican as it is British.
Nah they literally controlled north American regions
Literally the west side of America was a baron land, most of the population of America was in the thirteen colonies on the east coast.
Im definetly not the only one but alot of events in ireland could have been coverd. You could probably make a whole series on it haha
Me first!!!
@@michaelodonnell824 Let's not lose all our patience.
Omg, who the hell cares
Yes!
No one cares
Tagore said that the reason why sun didn't set on the British empire is that not even God would trust the British in the dark.
Afghan being the focal point for some weird reason? Maybe it’s something to do with it being the home to so much of the worlds opium supply...just a thought
That was just a bonus, as far as I am aware the main reason for the focus on afghanistan was to create a buffer zone between british holdings in india and the russian empire.
@@Duncan23 nah it was just a partay in kabul woop woop
The opium was introduced to the area as a staple crop, surprisingly the Jihadists sought to destroy the opium production and make the country self-suficiant again. Now it is back to producing opium again...
@@dambrooks7578 Because the Jihadists fell in love with the money....
@@allangibson8494 it only began being produced again when the US forces were taking control of regions.
Here's another shocking fact:
The British Empire brought the 3rd World out of the Stone Age.
Too bad they also exploited the land, resources, and, natives.
Yeah, Simon admits how much technology they contributed in the beginning of the vid, whats your point?
@@Peecamarke The OP thinks that justifies their barbarism, Spoiler Alert: he's dead wrong.
And let's hope you are in the forefront when EVERYTHING gets repaid in kind.
@@biocapsule7311 Time ultimately determines fate.
The East India Company was bad, but the company was replaced with bureaucracy, which was worse.
It was a racket disguised as a business.
The British empire was so bad, when Britain was dismembering it, its members wanted stay together so suggested the Commonwealth.
u av hit the nail on the head there? THE COMMONWEALTH, TO KEEP THEM QUIET........
yeah, as in: your commoners make us wealthy :D
@Alfa&Omega 00000
The Commonwealth is 52 countries with about a quarter of the world's population.
I am surprised this video was even created. I absolutley respect this channel for its information. Even when I have to face harsh negative truths, I trust that you're doing your best to avoid bias and just inform.
Than you Simon, 😇
With that said...
"Efficiently securing natural resources from colonies." Or Violently invading other people's land, enslaving, indenturing, raping, pillaging/ stealing/ destroying, at cannon point and/or gun point, their culture, & causing their near extinction due to disease... I mean... let's be real about the evil.
A.K.A Overexaggerating the British Empire's evils as much as you could to frame the country over and make them ashamed. 😐
like we were way better than france
Did you miss the part of Britain allowing slavery in America and other parts of the world?
Did the irish 'famine' not happen then ?.....more people died from this imposed hunger caused by redirection of food to england...if that is what you like to call it
Ros3NburG why you talking out your arse?
And wasn’t it a potato blight not a famine ?
im pretty sure it was caused primarily due to disease called blight..
feel free to look it up as i am only somewhat informed on the subject..
Apparently nothing happened there 🤷🏻♀️ What a ridiculous video
dizzybynature Yes, but there was still a lot of other produce and even some potatoes but the English took those resources from them
Simon - "...and we're assuming that all of them are just sort of ok with the arrangement..."
Foil Arms and Hog - "I just sort of assumed that they were mine, is that weird?" 😂🤣😂
You left out the Irish famine (genocide) of 1845 till 1850.
In India the 'sepoy revolt' is called the 'first war of independence'.
Alisha Khan thanks!
Better know in the west as The Indian Mutiny ;)
@@dapprman what's the wink for?
@@AlishaKhan-uh2kw Because I wanted to make sure you did not think I was correcting you, but rather giving another (and the best known) name
Yes & our very own Mangal Pandey was leader of first war of Independence & people like Rani laxmi bai,Bahadur shah,Liayakat ali, Tantya tope also took part in that war
The rifle cartriges never actually used animal fat. They used linseed oil. The rumor that they used pork and beef fat was false.
Belgium was brutal. Did you not do a video about people getting their hands cut off in the Congo?.
Belgium was brutal, especially, Leopold II.
Yes he did a video of King Leopold and his massacre of the people of Congo. Look under biographics.
Yes, its under Biographics
@@deniseleach152 thks. I did watch that video when it came out. It is how I heard about the hands and feet. I was appalled. This was done to children too.
@Random username Churchill's murderous ambition strikes once again.
If you haven't been introduced to George MacDonald Fraser's fictional Victorian soldier, Flashman, I can strongly recommend the books. The first book, "Flashman," is specifically about the British retreat from Afghanistan in 1842. "Flashman in the Great Game" is about the Sepoy mutiny. Fraser put this poor character through every conflict from 1842 on, with Flashman managing to survive by lying, cheating, stealing, and screwing his way through them all.
Flashman is very accurate, except for Flashman being fictional. Some of those Brits were apparently taken prisoner and released later, but initially only one British soldier made it through.
The British did it.
Canada still apologizing it.
And the U.S. took notes.
The canadians were the British until they decided that they wanted independance and re-branded with their own flag. Historically speaking the Canadians and British are largely the same people. Hope that helps.
@Ros3NburG Some are yes. The country as a whole was British, but they let some of the French colonisers stay after the land was surrendered to the British after some war. The country is largely considered to be British in origin, but obviously the details are a tad more complicated than just that.
@@BigBoomOfDoom2 Big percentage of Canada as of now are immigrants from different countries other that Europe. And gosh French & British are friend-enemies and you want to tell Canada is British, remember French also have colonies in Canada (proven fact the great block of Catholics in Canada today) before they renounce those, French is also another language of Canada and your acting as if it only British
@@pfoster1666 The student has surpassed the teacher
Get up, go to work, come home, watch a Simon W. video... or 4. 👍
Why only 7? It's not like there's a shortage of options.... Ireland, Australia, China
I'm sorry but i stopped at 0.54. 'Prominent role in the establishment of the slave trade?' Whilst the British empire did in fact feature prominently in those actions so did every great power for the last 6 THOUSAND years+. Including French, Spanish, US, Dutch, Ancient Roman, Ottoman, Ancient Greek, Ancient Egypt how far do you want to go?.
Whilst i never want to hide the things the British empire inflicted upon others i cant watch another hatchet job with no context.
For example whilst the British(and all other major global powers) partook in the slave trade it was the Might and Wealth of the British Empire that also eventually ENDED the global slave trade.
As an ex-teacher in England I really would like this to be played in every history class.
Wouldn't you prefer the children to be told the truth?
@@liamhillman8486 that was my point
The British empire needs to return...
No, Nazi England need to be sunk to the bottom of the ocean
Thank you Simon for publicly acknowledging these events. As an (Pre-revolution) Iranian American I believe it's important that the public should realize that some of the fallout of international relations is due to the meddling of foreign powers. At the same time it's unlikely that the naive are actively seeking out information contradictory to the propaganda machines.
Can't mention the British empire without mentioning its origins in Ireland, the British colonized Ireland in the 1500s the tudors and many of the British who colonized America got there start in ireland known as the west country men. Irish culture is very much a reaction to English and British colonialism in Ireland in the 1500s. Then there is the Irish famine which was the fault of the British government in ireland in the 1800s.
No they dint the British only had influence in 2 tiny areas in Ireland during the American colonisation, England during that time only said Ireland was part of Britain n under British rule, they weren't actually over there running owt
Genocide, not famine.
1. Britain was a constitutional monarchy, a democracy with a titular royal head, 2. Britain spread the ethos of the Bill of Rights, Act of Toleration and Magna Carta to the world, leaving our colonies as democracies. 3. Britain didn't start civil conflicts within its' colonies, they were already there and only rematerialized after we left, 4. Britain tried to help the Bengal famine but the priority was winning the war, what sort of famine relief would the Imperial Japanese Army have performed? 5. Find me the solution to the Middle East's problems, they began thousands of years before Britain existed? 6. Hardly Britain's fault the Nazis admired our culture yet perverted it? In truth the British Empire was no worse than everyone else's and better than practically all others.
You're simply a British apologist... the British Empire is the most diabolical and destructive Empire in the modern-era!!!! You talk about the Middle East, Israel and Palestine are fighting a war today because of Britain.... South Africa and America have the racial divides they have today because of Britain's racist legacy as it is the one that sowed the apartheid seeds in SA and also created the racial problems in America such as conceptualizing the one-drop rule or the downright annihilation of Native Americans... They also annihilated the Oceanian Indigenes (despite the fact that the time difference between US/Canada's contact with the British is more than 100 years- a mistake done repeatedly is a choice) The Boer genocide, the Irish genocide and the impoverishment of Ireland, the brutalities committed in India and China as well as their impoverishment 😢 Britain in its essence is devilish and destructive 🤮😱😈
Nothing like my favorite Brit describing the history of The British Empire. Unless Liz Hurley is available.
Makes me proud to be British
Makes me even prouder to be both American, and, Irish.
@@matthewdaley746 how can you be American and Irish or are you 1 of them Americans that say they are Irish without ever stepping foot on the emerald isle ...
@@thejannerofplymouth3654 I am an American who happens to have Irish heritage, and, I went there once, but, I didn't stay long.
@@matthewdaley746 ... a world class reply ... I was expecting an argument..... you sir are a class act
@@thejannerofplymouth3654 Thank you for your unexpected, and, refreshing level of candor, you sir are a class act, as well.
Interesting. Thanks.
It’s amazing what a small country did
Too bad they never thought their territories might ever resist.
Did the British commit atrocities in India? They sure did. But it pales in comparison to the horrific atrocities of the muslim Mughal Empire. And the British invasion of India helped drive out the Mughal Empire in what is present-day India: the last Mughal was deposed by the British East India Company in 1858.
By that logic, the Russians driving the Nazis out of Poland, and, replacing it with Communism, has now become heroic.
Oh sure, British helped, no wonder America bomb country of country in the name of help , apple does not fall far from the tree
@@harryhan7276 The motivations behind atrocities are as varied as the countries that are committing them.
Mughals were already in decline when British started conquering. They beat Maratha empire for control. British did some fked up things and they were super racist. They were far worse than Nazis. But may be humanism wasn't a thing back then. But they are a part of indian identity now.
@@Contractor48 If Churchill hadn't lived when Hitler did, he'd be remembered as fondly as Thatcher.
Don't blame the Brits for slavery, it's been around since the beginning of time and is still going on under the religion of peace
Shhhh he doesn't like facts of today
So has murder and death but doesn't make some more shocking or horrific than others. They revolutionized slavery for the worse and then America learned from them and figured out ways to make it even worse than them!
@@Peecamarke We stopped it....and prevented it happening in other areas of the world and again it was Africa and Middle East who actually began slave trading, The Dutch actually started it in Europe.
Don't forget also that not only is it one of the first human trading systems, still does go on today, was still practised by the Barbary Pirates (Algerian, Tunisian, Moroccan ...) up till the middle of the 19th century, and the British were the first to not only stop it, but to try and stop other countries doing it, almost resulting in wars with France, USA (very close), Spain and The Netherlands ...
What about the stuff they did to Ireland and the Irish people ?
Don't forget what the Brits did to the Irish.
Strange, you forgot about the +- 40000 South Africans that died in British concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer war between 1901 and 1902. Hopefully Simon will bring this up in Part 2 of 'Shocking Facts About the British Empire...'
@martin corderoy Somehow, only, the white South Africans of Dutch descent seem to take the blame historically, so, the British win, again.
Hey, just cos I fell out of my mum's clacker in Cleethorpes doesn't make me, or anyone else in my family, responsible for the deeds of the British Empire, and I am therefore, not ashamed to be British.
(I'm ashamed to be from Cleethorpes, but that's only common sense)
dont sack cleethorpes my dude, my family was poor when i was a child and all my family holidays were in cleethorpes and i loved it i can still taste johnny doughnuts on the sea front.
@@firstheretik7546 I have similar childhood memories. I love Cleethorpes, really, it was just a (very small) joke.
who told you to be ashamed of being a brit?
5 4 are never taught in India in school
Simon, it would be a dark day for TH-cam as all your channels are top notch and a daily routine of many a viewer, that being said. Would you consider being the new host of Jeopardy? I think Mr. Trebek would be honoured.
Trebeck would at least be intrigued by the idea...
The genocide in Ireland?
Potato Famine wasn't a genocide.
@@eeksdification3288 keep thinking that
@@paulfennelly9884 Give me one example of how it was a genocide? It was a result of mismanagement and a terrible blight which effected the rest of Europe too.
@@eeksdification3288 the slowness of the British reaction to Ireland. Yes, there was issues with potato blight in Europe, and in Scotland it was tackled almost immediately. Perfect opportunity to quell the rebellious sentiment in Ireland
@@paulfennelly9884 Slow reaction doesn't mean genocide, mismanagement doesn't mean Genocide... Genocide would mean it was a concentrated effort to eradicate the Irish, it wasn't...
Probably worth mentioning that the cartridges for the Enfield rifles in India weren't actually coated with animal fat, but vegetable fat to allow for the sensitivities of the religions. It's thought that Russia was responsible for the spreading of the rumour, as they often acted to undermine British efforts in India with a view to expanding into the area from the North.
I love the historical information of this channel! Carry on....as you were!
O Simon ,do give over!! Wales conquest ,Scotland , North Belfast ‼️‼️‼️‼️
You said 19 instead of 18 twice when discussing the Afghanistan invasion
I've often cited Sykes/Picot as one reason for so much of the turmoil in the Middle East. One could say the same for the continent of Africa, and the various colonial powers that divided it up among themselves, without regard for the people who actually lived there. Once the colonial rule ended, corporations took over as neocolonialists - helping to install rulers friendly to the corporations, again without regard for the people in those countries. And the US certainly doesn't have 'clean hands' in this regard, either. We've certainly done our share of interference in foreign countries, from Central and South America to Iran and later, to Iraq and Afghanistan.
@J S ...and then we jumped right into the slave trade, didn't we? You simply proved what I was saying - that outside, foreign countries were interfering in large part on the African continent, for centuries. I think Africa should have been left to Africans - regardless of what each kingdom or tribe was doing.
@J S Oh, give me a break. Racist? Please... That's so easy - slap a label on something, and problem solved. I'm all for trade and cultural exchange - just not exploitation, which is exactly what both Europe and the US did in from the 17th through the early 20th centuries in Africa, Central and South America, Indonesia, etc. It's what corporations - and sometimes governments - still do that I object to. So get over yourself, and take a step down from your high horse.
@J S Zzzzz.... Sorry, what?
@J S Just as long as you're happy. That's all that counts. :)
@J S I just don't see any point in further argument. You've guessed wrong about me on every count, yet you seem to have a strong need to be 'right'. So why bother correcting you? You don't know anything about me, other than what you've chosen to assume. If it makes you feel strong and smart to believe you've 'owned' me, that's fine with me. I don't care. :)
Number 8: Concentration camps.
Sshhh we don’t talk bout that
Our previous colonies looking at our economy right now laughing
aaand cue lots of comments from people who werent even in the empire moaning about how awful it was. Realistically the British empire was predominantly built on trade, and was significantly less brutal than most other empires. The Brits were the first to end slavery, even before America or France, and when colonised countries were surrendered to the natives massacres and war crimes were rare. Canada went peacefully, as did Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, and to a great extent, India. No colonised nation has since collapsed and most have flourished because of British influence.
They invaded Ireland, banned the language and religion, and killed anyone who didn't like it for 800 years. How dare you say forced invasion of a country made them flourish. I presume you learned your history in a British school?
Technically France ended slavery first in 1794 until it was reestablished in 1802 by Napoleon. France abolished its slave trade in 1815 and abolished the slave trade in 1848.
Britian abolished slavery almost purely on economic reasons.
Britian displaced the indigenous people of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand with Europeans.
How can you say the colonized lands are better off when the native people were displaced by foreigners?
Let's not forget how they treated the Irish.
The only success from the British Empire regarding colonization is Hong Kong.
You're nothing more than am apologist for British imperialism which was arguably the most devilish and destructive empire in the modern era... people like you love to whitewash Britain's dark past and legacy but the truth is the truth no matter how unpalatable and Britain caused more destruction than it ever constructed 😢🤧🙅♀️🙆♀️
Oh come on...only 7???🤣
I sniff biased....jk
Had to keep it short. Their atrocities could go on for hours of videos
@@terrum-c7s 😂
@@terrum-c7s the positives of the British would be only a minute long
Proudest Mass murderers ever
During the Indian famine in 1876, orchestrated and engineered by britain, up to 29 000 000 Indians starved to death, not to mention all the livestock wiped out by the famine.
The brits shipped India's food to Britain, because the brit harvests had failed.
There were initial efforts to feed the Indian people, but the brit authorities put a stop to that, threatening anyone trying to stop the starvation, with severe prison sentences.
There were several famines in India during british occupation, all either orchestrated by the brits, or exacerbated the famines.
The last such genocidal famine, being winston churchill's Bengali famine of 1943.
Ireland not make the list Simon?
He's upset that the Irish actually fought back.
first time this early xD love the vids man
I bet you the labor party would totally endorse this video
I bet it makes tonnes of gammons squeeze a picture of the Queen so hard their hands bleed
If you watch his political and business channels, it’s clear that this guy is no friend of any sort of Labour or Socialist party. He’s most likely a Lib Dem. The stuff he’s saying in this video is just objective, well-chronicled historical fact per the available documentary record.
Matthew Calise yes the point is labor party hate Britain and they use this as ammo
Willie Preisig Labour (I’m assuming you aren’t British based off the fact you’ve dropped the U both times) doesn’t hate Britain. Admitting that there are problems and wanting to fix them isn’t hatred. Talking like that, you sound like a (US, that is) paranoid deep-South reactionary.
And besides, it’s not like there isn’t plenty to hate about Britain.
Matthew Calise Sargon would totally disagree with you
Fact. Slavery existed in North Africa way way before the brits got there.. the brits stopped slavery with the abolition of Slavery act in 1833.
True but they are also the ones responsible for the racial divides that exist in the world today more especially Black-White relations... they're the ones who built America/Canada on dark racial creeds as well as the ones who polluted White Southern Africans with apartheid ideals... all the racist policies in SA were signed and conceptualized under British rule... you may have ended the slave trade but you're the force responsible for discrimination and dehumanizing of Blacks which is far more integral to the hyperintersified race relations that exist today than slavery which was universal and mostly a blueprint of the Islamic slave trade
Issues with this video:
1) It was mainly the Spanish and Portuguese who brought about the Atlantic slave trade but Britain were the first country in the world to ban slavery outright.
2) Both Portugal and the Netherlands had “East India companies” exactly the same but the British lasted longer because they forced the Portuguese and Dutch out
3) Nazi ideology has as much to do with the British empire as it does the French or any other such colonial empire, it’s just that the Germans have always been historically favourable to the British whilst hating the French.
4) The Bengal area was on the front line against Japanese troops, sending huge supplies to the area would be a huge drain on resources at a crucial time of the war, not to mention due to the presence of the Japanese navy the only way to safely result would have been by air thus not sufficient amounts of food would have been able to reach the Bengal area.
5) Blaming the Middle Eastern crisis on Britain is fundamentally wrong, for that you have the USA to blame. This is because in 1956 when Egyptian troops under Arab nationalist leader Nasser took control of the canal, America stabbed its two greatest allies in the back to assist Egypt thus undermining the authority of both Britain and France as the regions policemen creating a power vacuum that would be filled with warlords, USSR, and the US itself. Not to mention that the US’s intervention in the crisis meant Britain refused military aid to the Americans during the Vietnam war.
Japanese troops never made to Bengal they were able to come to for east of Indian Border ,Burma ( Myanmar Today )
It was Britain that created Israel-Palestine crisis
Britain was responsible for the midle eastern crisis
Israel and Palestine are fighting a war today because of Britain... Israel was created by Britain as that piece of land known as Israel-Palestine was colonised by the British who then decided to disregard the Indigenous peoples and bring in millions of European Jews which is the focal point of tensions in the Middle East... you people are such apologists for British imperialism but you love to point out other Empires' faults... look at your own house before you criticize others
The British and French took control of the Otaman empire on behalf of the League of Nations. They knew the territories would be independent at some point.
Nope, they took it on behalf of themselves
they had nothing to do with the establishment of slavery. Muslim north africa had been trading in slaves for centuries. in some areas they still do. disappointed that you didnt mention this to put things in context
I see a potential part 2 to this list. So much to choose from.
The couldn't fill the usual ten. 😀
Yes 😀
You left out 800 years of occupation of Ireland: ravaging it's resources, the great famine, mass emigration and the troubles. The consequences of British rule are still being felt a 100 years after the revolution.
Mark Vieregge west is trying frnds frnds with asia IR does not matter for thm now
The Irish at least were able to get some measure of revenge.
Matthew Daley u mean IRA ?
@@atish3024 No occupation, no IRA. But sadly the Brits keep Ireland decided.
@@atish3024 Indeed, I do mean the IRA,
Wow I actually got a notification!
Yuppers!💯🇬🇧
What’s NOT shocking about the British Empire?
Long live the empire...... 🇬🇧
stfu
Don't forget how they sold drugs without caring about who did the drugs and what happened to those people.
Fine job. Rather difficult to narrow such enormous stretches of time and so many complex events into a list of 7, but nice work.
Instead of 7/10, this issue could grab 20/10, easily.
History repeats itself; for Afghanistan it's at three times..
Great Britain, Russia, and US.
I am glad that Simon Whistler is here to teach us about obscure stuff like these shocking facts about the British Empire.
It was fairly inevitable, still very satisfying, though.
The most disgusting crime syndicate ever
How many channels does this man have?!?
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@@rocketscience4516 🤭
LOTS! 😂
I have British ancestry and I hang my head in shame
That’s pathetic
dont be shamed for your heritage, you didn't have a part in the atrocities
Biography of lawrence of arabia would bring light to some of the issues of the middle east
I'm sorry to sound typically British however I'm somewhat sick of the world and his dog trying to make the UK apologists for its past and moreover, trying to tie in the modern claim culture for acts that occurred way past the realms of what most legal systems would consider a statute of limitations.
Quite frankly, the only reason we still get it in the neck is because we were the last of the "great" colonialists.
That's not to say there was anything great about it but then, neither was there anything great about any of the other prolific empires throughout history.
Is the world going to make Italy culpable for reparations due to the invasions of the Roman Empire? Are we going to make Mongolia pay for the atrocities of Ghengis Khan who, outside of the second world war, caused more fatalities than any leader in history?
The answer is resoundingly "No!"
So, whilst I don't condone any of the actions of my ancestors, world; get over yourself and move on...
Brits were victimized by the Empire too; read a little Dickens.
Ghengis Khan did in mediaeval period whereas British did in morden and the problem in any part of the world is because of the British so they should apologise and now this thing it is being done by Britain's son and successor USA
YES!!!! I agree 100%!!! All of the democracies in the world owe a debt to the British Empire. They would simply not exist in their current form if not for the British Empire.
@@prepperjonpnw6482 yes o their miseries to the British evil empire
You do realize this is basically a history lesson and that he's British too... Not a call for reparations... Right?
What #1 🤯I had no idea about any of that, especially the loss of 4,499 Soldiers!!!
You and I both know it was supposedly coated in fat not meat
Greatest gift to mankind
britain?
Lol no
You forgot about the 800 years of irish rebellion for independence, and the irish "famine" which was also caused by the British government
Caused is a bit of a stretch, it's not like the british government created the blight that infected the crops. Exacerbated would be a better term, they failed to implement policy to negate the effects of it and implemented policies which worsened the situation.
Apparently there was enough food to go around for to stop such an atrocity, sure as Tony Blair stated, "British Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized for doing "little" in response to the Irish Potato Famine of the 19th century that killed millions of people and brought about the emigration of millions more.
So yes there was a potato blight but that there was more food sources to go around to stop millions from dying such as Corn, Crops, fish available etc. Which the British Landlords controlled and purposely kept. No protestant landlords nor catholic priests either died in the so called famine. Which many historical researchers now say was genocide not famine.
Honestly Duncan just dig into it. Do some research or Google it as there are loads of article's on this topic. Now they may or may not be true?? But i don't see why any legitimate historians would publish such findings?
@@shezsherry8133 like I said they exacerbated the issue they didnt cause it.
@@Duncan23 That's not much better.
@@matthewdaley746 I never said it was, but is itellectualy dishonest to say it was caused by them.
When you reach the height of strength and glory, you must know that your destiny will ultimately fall to the bottom ... Take the lesson from our Arab civilization .. Yesterday we were at the top and today we are at the bottom
So everyone in the vid is calling him bias because he's too "harsh" on the British Empire, meanwhile others are calling him bias cause he wasn't as harsh on them as he was on the states. Y'all need to make up your minds.
I'm actually pleasantly surprised he made a video like this at all.
@Jon Seymour Don't hold your breath about that ever happening.
What about the Irish potato famine or the opium wars?
Lol only 7? You damn well know there are a lot more items that could go on here.
when you wanna make an omelette u gotta break some eggs compare the eggs broken in the past compared to the omelette we all live in today.
Do one over the Great Famine....as in the Irish potato famine
Like Irish, like Bengals. Like Brexit.
Had to leave it at 7 entries. 3 more and MI6 shows up at the door.
Top Sevenz, I like it!
How I do miss my Empire, such a shame
The Hackney Empire?
@@tentringer4065 British
@Alfa&Omega 00000 Yep
This was suggested for me to watch after they ripped down Edward Coulston's statue in Bristol