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Hey, I’m a university student studying history in the U.K., I’ve just finished a module about empires, and obviously the British empire was a huuuge part of the module, if you have any questions I’d love to be able to help you 😊 or any questions about general Britishness, Englishness or Scottishness (I’m scottish but live in England now).
Britain did not just use military conquest instead we used trading companies also gaining control over places through agressive trade policies. This is how we got controll of part of china prior to the boxer rebelion. The French on the other hand started the worlds heroin problem with their take over of French Indochina. They used what was known as french kiss to get people addicted and subservient to them or in more recent terms Opium.
@@OriginalOwner777 that’s exactly right. India, the Jewel in the Crown of the B.E was originally a trading post controlled by the East India Company. We also had a lot of informal empires that way too. Of course there was also the prestige of having an empire, Kaiser Wilhelm I said something about all great nations needing an empire. Plus the scramble for Africa being about stopping others gaining land and the slave trade and trade in general. The Belgian Congo was a particularly disgusting example of a colony in Africa (not that Britain was all that much better). That’s also not forgetting ‘the white mans burden’ where Europeans felt it necessary to civilise the ‘barbarians’ and ‘savages’, and bring Christianity to those nations. There’s also a million other reasons, it’s genuinely fascinating and horrifying at the same time.
@@leea8706 Although slaves where banned in the UK first it was a yorkshire man who got the trade banned in the british controlled collonies too. Which is why Convicts where shipped to Aus as criminals they where not allowed the same rights so bypassed the antislavery laws set in place by William Wilberforce. Ironically his statue was one of the ones the BLM protesters wanted destroyed.
Hong Kong, great port for drugs basically Britain was the first drug smugglers 'opium 'it was worth a lot of money ' that's why we invaded Hong Kong, China say that was the most humiliating thing that's ever happened to China, look it up?
The British army was so impressed and respected Nepali fighting men that they struck a deal to have them join the British army. To this day the Gurkhas are one of the most respected regiment in the British army, and we the British people are very thankful for them, but its a real shame our governments have treated them badly from time to time.
Our country India,since we were an colony as well,and the Nepalis(Gurkhas) are truly brave and very good,very good!! And I am honoured they are in our army as well.
@@deepyamandas1192 the british gurkhas are by far,more highly trained,than the indian gurkhas,so the only real comparison is there from nepal.The indians are clinging on to the coatails.
@peter jones Indeed, you only have the Germans as example, it says it all concerning the Franco-English rivalry... Moreover, knowing that the BEF fled and had to be entirely saved by the French, it's quite funny coming from you, LOL
@peter jones It's not at all the line taught in French schools. Not at all. But you're reciting the line of the Anglo-saxon propaganda we often see on the Internet. After our forces had been pierced, many offers of counter-attacks were proposed, the BEF refused to be part of any of them. On May 22, it began its retreat, while Churchill was reassuring the French and Belgian ministers Reynaud and Perliot on the British military support. Lord Gort, commanding the BEF, was ordered not to inform his Belgian and French allies about the retreat, so that they would continue to fight, covering the British retreat without even knowing it. All of this is perfectly documented. Then, the defense of Dunkirk was almost exclusively done by French soldiers. 35,000 French will fight enable the evacuation. All of them will be killed or captured. The heroic defense of Lille (the defenders were given the honours of war by the Germans and allowed to parade gun in hand) also gave the BEF several more days to evacuate. Churchill himself had the honesty to recognize that they gave 5 more days to the Operation Dynamo. As the German propaganda was saying, "the English are fighting to the last Frenchman". Finally, "you" did not evacuate 140,000 Belgian and French soldiers. Firstly these soldiers were allowed to evacuate only after the last Englishman had put a foot on a ship, and 350 boats of the 850 that participated in the evacuation were French.
@peter jones My answer was probably too long and complex to understand for your brain sorry about that And it's funny to notice that the Germans always respected and even praised us, like when Hitler said that the French were the second best soldiers in Europe after the Germans, when our "allies" mocked us. Some have honour, others don't.
@peter jones Well apparently you didn't take really well my little initial teasing so I wonder who's the butt hurt here. Worse is that you thought you were going to give me a History lesson and it seems that you quickly surrendered to the facts lol
Is just because we had different way off doing business. The Spanish and other major powers would conquer land and imprison or kill the people wiping out there culture. The British would hire them as soldiers under command of English Officer and add there culture to are own. I saw an old video of large parade when Britain at height of power with all the Indian elephant guards and soldiers from around the world all with there own cultures but doing a parade for the Queen in London.
@@MrSchizoid405 Was not so much the British government it was the settlers who killed indigenous people for trespassing on there land many of which was not of British decent.
Positives are usually ignored regarding the British & the empire .. And so is all the bad stuff Spain, France, Portugal & other empires did! .. For instance: Hardly anyone knows, it was Portugal that started the black slave trade & that it was the British that ended it, throughout her empire (many lands & millions of people) FIRST!
@@Paul-hl8yg Exactly. But you tell that to 25 year olds who are teaching Kids revisionist history now. The Royal Navy used to hunt down slave ships and liberate the slaves. That isn't taught. English kids are being taught that we were the most evil country in history and that they should be ashamed of their ancestry, culture and heritage. Where as American kids are taught to be Proud and that they are the greatest in the World. I'm sick of what's happening to our kids. Being brainwashed by the PC brigade and SJWs and BLM. The Greatest Nation the World has known has gone Down the shitter.
@@brianwilson3952 Totally agree Brian, 100% .. Subtle propaganda everywhere too.. Notice what nationality the bad guy usually is in American movies? How the far left media today, makes out the UK is the bad guy in the Brexit talks? The eu can do no wrong! Britains statues can be torn down & the media not condemn it? BLM marches can destroy infrastructure & attack police with weapons & not be condemned. Yet the "far right" marches (People who are really People that care about Britain) are blatantly attacked by the media .. Slow, selected biased brainwashing!
@@Paul-hl8yg Let's put it simply. If Henry viii hadn't broke away from Rome, there wouldn't have been an Empire. The US would be Mexican, Spanish, German and French. Australia would be Dutch or Japanese. The industrial Revolution wouldn't have happened when it did. Slavery wouldnt have been abolished. No modern culture the way we know it today. Britain had more impact on the World than every other Empire combined. India wouldn't have thousands of miles of railway and any modern infrastructure. Etc etc etc. Britain created the Modern World. No ifs, buts or maybes. And now everything great we did is being re-written by a load of nobody's with nothing but hatred and a sociology or media degree to show for their weasley existences.
@@brianwilson3952 Omg, you are me! Lol I could & have written online many times, all of what you just stated! Even modern Democracy was given to the world by Britain. Something the globalists are trying to destroy today! I'm hoping our recently independent UK (from eu) will flourish, complete with the Democracy the People deserve. However, forces are constantly at work to stop that! 👍🇬🇧
" Rule the sea, and you rule the world!" The Royal Navy was extremely powerful when our empire was at its greatest height,this was a very important element in our success.
On HMS Belfast (moored as an attraction on the River Thames in London) there is a display of the World's navys during WWII. We had by far the largest, dwarfing even the US Navy. I was shocked and impressed.
To be honest, I do think they have a point. I am a very proud Englishman, but even I have to admit that over the century's , we have treated our neighbours horrifically. We really should own up to the mess we made over there.
@@ianrandle2780 oh yes oliver cromwell was our fault isn’t it,,,oliver cromwell is nowadays english peoples fault,,,get over yourself history is history
@@ianrandle2780 I was born in 1990... I wasn't really in a position to talk sense into our ancient ancestors. If we were all held accountable for the sins of our ancestors the whole world would hang. Example: Every single human being alive today has an ancestor who reproduced through rape. Non-negotiable fact. There was a time when it was so prevalent that women actually evolved to stop advertising their ovulation as a defense mechanism. That's why humans are basically the only animal on earth that can't immediately sense when a female is "in season" so to speak. Am I, you or anyone else tarred as a rapist because of this fact? Of course not... Not our hands, not our decision, not our punishment to take and not our debt to pay.
It's simple, we kept getting invaded, got pissed off and went on a thousand year rampage. When we cooled off we gave most of it back so it's all good, right? no harm done?
To try and answer your final questions: Britain was one of the first centralised countries in the world, under the Tudors. Being an island, it always had a big navy. The agricultural and industrial revolutions began in Britain. For its size it had a large population. It had a tradition of free thought which led to invention and innovation. It was the first country to utilise steam power for machines and railways. It had a proselytising religion. It was obsessed with trade and international commerce. All these factors led to it punching above its weight from about 1700 to 1900.
Free thought was why the Pilgrim Fathers we 'encouraged' to leave and go to America . What Americans don't realise is that the passengers of the Mayflower wanted a much more ridged, and strict religious society than the Government of the day was will to impose on rest of the British public.
Incorrect; it didn't 'always' have a big navy - Henry 8th started with 5 millitary ships (half of which were horribly outdated) in his navy and died with around 40 millitary ships, most of which were pretty modern designs. While he might've been a poor father, a worse husband and a shitty human in general - he did set up his daughter Elizabeth 1st with the seed of a naval empire.
The comments here are highly entertaining. British humour is just in tune with my own Australian sense of what's funny. I saw a post from a Brit on another channel along the lines of : "You need to understand that we British do everything to piss off the French. That's why we put the London Eurostar (channel tunnel train) terminal at Waterloo" Been chuckling at that for weeks now.
The British weren't greedy they were just doing what every advanced country in the world was doing, it just happened to be the best at it, the American revolution was a civil war Brits fighting Brits. they had a real war going on in Europe and a vote was taken in parliament on if they should send more troops to America it was voted down as it was an unpopular conflict as large parts of America were owed by Brits before the war and continued to be owned after and trade continued, America didn't even bother to tell the French who'd bankrupted themselves.
Well it's a no brainer do you deal with the battles raging on at your door step (napoleon) or do you send troops on 2 month voyagers (each way) to deal with a break away colony on the other side of the globe?
Reasons for Britain's dominance in world affaits, edited version here is a tidier version.(edited) Reasons for Britain's dominance in world affairs. In immediate, proximate, terms the causes are economic Britain was the strongest nation in the world bexcause it was the richest The Empire was so vast because it was responsible for such a large fraction of global GDP. The UK say 1730 to 1875 was "the workshop oc the world". In turn economic dominance came from early restructuring of the economy and society around that set of production changes called Revolutons. |First in the Agrarian Revolution then the Industrial. The rise of a mercantile middle class and freedoom of new capital monies appearing in capital markets (stock markets) to find high returns in real markets for goods. The City of London being the result. The unfortunate side efffec of these Revolutionary changes were profouind. The British working classes were indebted to landowners and employers. High rents, low wages, high interest on debts sent many W/C Brits into being impoverished, vagrant, forced into workhouses, criminilised and not infrequently transported to Australia or presse into mllitary service. The orphanages, churches, infrmaries asylums and prisons werre full the bellies amd minds of the p;oor were all too often empty Others took marginal labour as "navigation" or stone breaking. Leaving the fich liberals fuiding charities to ameliorate and engaging in poltical reform of systems which produced the problems and their weath in the first place In analysis deeper than that above, there is dispute but factors often mentioned include the features of the UK 1 Island 2 Limestone base in the south hesvily glaciated, Maritime temperate climate. Ideal for artable cash crop farming on the rotation model. HIgh rainfall, well drained. 3. Coal and Irion abundant and acessible 4 the Common Law 5 the Protestant faith (more science friendly than catholicism) 6 the English language many roots thus many words . Many near synonyms allowig great specificity in contacts for example 7 Mercantile to working class social boundariies open in both directiions 8 better Science and better application thereof (intellectiuas property cconcepts especially patents) 9 Better adminisrtration (tradition of honest and indpendent civil service) 10 an Army that stayed out of politics (after Cromwell) ok? -------------------------------------- earlir versoion for ass lng as that lasted, was in immediste terms economic. Britain wawas the strongest nation in the world bexcause it was the richest It was a vast gobal E,mpirr bexcaure it was responsible for such a large fraction of global GDP. The UK say 1730 to 1875 was "the workshop oc the world". In turn eomomic dominance came from early restructuring of the economy and society around that change first in the Agrarian Revolution then the Industrial. The rise of a mercantile middle class and freedoom of new caspital to find high returns in formal markets - The City of London. Meaning that the working classes were impoverished, criminilised and not infrequently transported or pressd into mluitasry service, indebted to labndowners and employers. Many histories of people renfdered vagrant, forced into fsctories, workhouses, insane asylums., prisns or on suc labioyr as "navigation" or stone breaking. Leaving the fich fuiding charities to ameliorate and leaving liberals to advocated poltical reform of systems which produced the problems in the first place In analyss deeper than that above, there is dispute but factors often mentioned include 1 Island 2 Limestone base in the south hesvily glaciated, Maritime temperate climate. Ideal for artable cash crop farming on the rotation model. HIgh rainfall, well drained. 3. Coal and Irion abundant annd acessible 4 the Common Law 5 the Protestant faith (more science friendly than catholicism) 6 the English language many roots thus many words . Many near synonyms allowig great specificity in contacts for example 7 Mercantile to working classs booundariies open in boyth directiions 8 better Science and aplicatio thereof (intellectiuas property cconcepts especially patents) 9 Better adminisrtration (tradition of honest and indpendent civil service) 10 an Army that staayed out of politics (after Cromwell)
The only reason we allied with them during the World wars was because we saw Germany invade them and said “hey, your not allowed to invade France only we’re allowed to invade France”. We are best mates but also sworn enemies
Essentially England had a crash course in being invaded from 43AD to 1,066AD. After that they had a pretty good idea how invasions worked and were clearly successful in applying their learned knowledge to the rest of the world.
@@themanftheworld8439 I agree with you but just look how much it progressed in such a short time is quite fascinating, what Britain done was over a long period of time but also fascinating with the tools it had and population size for its day, Britain will never be surpassed by any one it's power and leadership for all those years is quite remarkable good or bad but how America rose so quickly is like I said fascinating.
The Empire was built on trade not as mistakenly described in the video, by invasion. The video goes pear shaped right from the beginning, the English didn't go into Ireland for no reason, they did so because England was perpetually being 'invaded' by Irish tribes who raped, pillaged and took slaves. The only time Ireland has ever been united was when it was under British rule, prior to that it was a country of warring tribes who were at each others throats all the time. No Empire is ever perfect but its Empires that have driven mankind forward, overall the Empire was more a force for good than bad and gave the world the longest period of peace it has ever known.
People esp Irish/Scots conveniently forget that when Ireland was invaded, it was not actually by the ENGLISH rulers, by then it was Norman, due to the invasion of 1066. The Normans were as hated by the English! Hence the stories of Robin hood.
Britain turned the richest country in the world(INDIA🇮🇳) *( which had 25% of world trade to 2%*) into a very poor one. Destroyed the cultural heritage of 1000s of YEARS. Looted, Massacred & exploited people. Used Railways for plunder and loot to ship the countries wealth to Britain. Made rich Indian weavers, farmers, merchants into beggars. Indias De industrialization funded Britain's Industrialization. Today's Problems of racism, Poverty in India. Millions of Killings in India 🇮🇳by Britain. For India Britain was the worst historical stain in 1000s of years of history. The current diamond Kohinoor on the throne of Queen is from IND. Partition of India into Pakistan and India. Today's Border disputes are also a part of British Induced. BRITAIN OWED BILLIONS OF POUNDS TO INDIA AS DEBT OF BOTH WORLD WARS BUT DIDNOT PAY BACK. 3.5 MILLION INDIANS HAD TO FIGHT THE WARS FOR BRITAIN. DISCRIMINATION WAS WHAT BRITISH DID IN INDIA. TAXED HEAVILY AND FORCED PEOPLE TO POVERTY AND Death SPECIFICALLY CHURCHILL DIVERTED FOOD SUPPLIES AS RESERVES FROM PEOPLE OF BENGAL TO EUROPEANS WHICH CAUSED A FAMINE KILLING 3 MILLION BENGALIS IT WAS AS BAD AS THE HOLOCAUST. SADLY BRITISH PEOPLE AREN'T TAUGHT THERE HISTORY WITH FACTS. In India till 1900s Britishers staying in India had places Where they kept a board no dogs and Indians allowed inside.
@@harshrajsinhjhala6281 did you put this on every comment? I will copy and paste what I said earlier.. @Harshrajsinh Jhala utter BS on this one, keep your angry rant to yourself and do some more research before you go wrongly attacking a country which completely changed the world for the better and is the reason that the world is like it is today with it's revolutionary ideas and genius inventions.. you should be thanking the British not blaming them for the worlds problems.
The weather was alright when we first invaded but we told ‘em, “We like it here but we want some changes, there ain’t no bingo in the evening, the Cabaret is rubbish and we’re struggling to find a roast on Sundays” 🤣
It’s a really great question you pose towards the end of your video where you ask why Britain was able to do this whilst other countries were not. It essentially comes down to one key thing: approach to Empire. If you look at the vast bulk of empires throughout history their objective has been to acquire more land and to absorb people. A great example would be empires like the Portuguese and the Spanish where they took all of the wealth they found in terms of gold, silver and jewels etc. and shipped it back to Spain. So once they had exhausted that supply they aren’t left with as many natural resources. The British empire in contrast was built on trade, there was not this initial drive to gain land, it was more a case of creating optimal trade that would grow the wealth of the economy over time. This was done by the least interference possible, only when a rival nation such as France attempted a takeover would Britain then step in more directly. Once Britain was in this situation they then built up the area in terms of creating an infrastructure such as building railways etc. This is also essentially why you tend to find looking globally a much higher proportion of the more developed countries had a British background than say a French or Spanish one, because of these types of foundations and infrastructure.
How? We were lucky 1 we're an Island nation so we are difficult to invade and this also prevented other nations from intervening. This is why it took so long for France to begin it's empire, because it spent all it's time fighting the Habsburgs in Germany and the Habsburgs in Spain and the Britons in Brittony and the Burgundians in you get the idea. 2 We were a united people. In the sense that all the English identified as English, Scots as Scottish, Welsh as Welsh rather than a united British identity. But still, we didn't have the issues Germany had until 1861 when it was unified or that the Italians had until their unification in 1870. We were able to come together and concentrate on external threats and opportunities. 3 By the 1600s, Britain had built up a decent navy, which grew to a formidable one in the 1700s. All island nations which went on to be successful had to have a navy first, Japan for instance could of never got so far in WW2 if not for it's navy. Just ignore that a large portion of those ships were made in British dockyards... sorry about that. 4 (Most Important) Britain was the first country which industrialised. This inevitably led to new advancements and technologies to be developed. Business grew and from then on, trade became the most important factor in British foreign policy and led to Britain's invasions. Either you traded with Britain (and only Britain) or you would be invaded. And our advancements in technology gave a massive advantage. Almost every other country which went on to start it's own empire had to industrialise first. France, Germany, Italy, Japan(in just 10 years as well) and America had to industrialise in order to gain an advantage for upcoming conflicts. Take the Franco-prussian war. Prussia was the more industrialised of the two and that helped give them an advantage (more/better trains and railways, better manufactured weapons etc) Tied in with the 4th point is that Britain had large and well funded science departments. This helped grow Britain's military as well as other important factors. For example, Britain was exploring Africa's heartland 40 years before the Berlin Conference 1875-6 and the Scramble for Africa, mostly done by David Livingstone. The Conference stated that a country can take any African land it wants but must hand it over if another country can prove it has had pre-existing influence in the contested region. The exploring done by Livingstone gave Britain a head start. In short Britain managed to obtain it's empire due to Being out of the other major powers way Unity Strong navy Industrialising Greater emphasis on Science and technology than most other countries. Hope that helps.
600 miles long and 300 miles wide, yet we owned the biggest empire in the history, and today at any point in 24 hrs the sun never sets on theBritish Empire, the sun is always shining on acountry that still recognises the Queen as their Head of State.
In our Empire days, we didn't "Invade" anywhere. We pretty much "bought" the Empire. We've had many wars (pre Empire) and invaded loads of European places (country names are mostly meaningless because they all changed...France, Italy & Germany didn't even exist until the 19th century). The Empire was a trade based enterprise...not an invasion world tour.
@@stan690 Yes but the country and its people existed long before the Republic. Just like England or Spain "exist" today but are not Republics. The first ruler named "King of France" was Philippe August in the XIIth century :)
@Angus Hanna the video she is reacting to is all the countries who britain invaded but the dutch defended their country from a british and french land invasion
Up until the First World War it was British policy to maintain a navy that was bigger and more powerful than the navies of the next two navel powers combined. Their naval supremacy made them virtually unchallenged on the high seas.
Alexander the Great did pretty well as well. He didn't go as far north and west as the Romans did but he went and invaded Persia, Egypt, lots of the middle east and India long before the Romans even had an empire.
Is winter time to run off we may be loyal to our own counties but fuck staying there in that weather, we just come home to storming fucking rain and say AHHH HOME
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An invasion is an invasion regardless of the circumstances. War is usually a part reason or consequence of an invasion, so ruling out WWI & WWII as ‘invasions’ doesn’t make any sense at all. Also, why do you think there are two shades of red shown? The light (pink) red indicates invasion only... while the dark red indicates invasion and annexation. Finally, the video misses out Malta, the Falklands and South Georgia.
Also to add to my comment - The Vikings technically were the first Europeans to settle and I guess explore? Depends how far you'd need to go to class as exploring.
@@ParsleyParsnipsGaming yawn!!!!! Don’t need a history lesson....... as to the British Invasion of Kuwait in 1991..... think you might find it was a coalition of several armed forces the main bulk was US forces...... and it wasn’t an INVASION it was a liberation of Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion!!!!!!!! How do I know this !!!! Because I’m not just talking about a part of history...... I was actually there!!!!!!!!
@@stuartfitch7093 Change it to modern army and you are right. Professional army’s were around since the antique. Think about the romans only for example.
Britain is the biggest empire in history on all those metrics, so "...countries that were invaded...." YES Britain win, "...amount of land mass..." YES Britain win, and "...amount of people that were under the British rule..." YES Britain win on that metric as well! :)
How did they do it? The three greatest inventions in human history. 1-Penicillin-(80% of all humans today wouldn't exist without it) 2-The magna carter-(Human rights, Law and order) 3-The company-(Brought the industrial revolution, innovation and technology)
Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke, As the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak. God save her Majesty! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧💪
Imagine if canzuk happens soon. The empire could exist even better than before as it could be more peaceful and less aggressive in my opinion. Long live the Empire.
@@BeckyPoleninja Love ,Dear, My lover and many others are all polite greetings in different parts of the UK They are not meant to be rude or nasty A bit like local colloquialisms
@@distantthunder12ck55 Britain turned the richest country in the world(INDIA🇮🇳) *( which had 25% of world trade to 2%*) into a very poor one. Destroyed the cultural heritage of 1000s of YEARS. Looted, Massacred & exploited people. Used Railways for plunder and loot to ship the countries wealth to Britain. Made rich Indian weavers, farmers, merchants into beggars. Indias De industrialization funded Britain's Industrialization. Today's Problems of racism, Poverty in India. Millions of Killings in India 🇮🇳by Britain. For India Britain was the worst historical stain in 1000s of years of history. The current diamond Kohinoor on the throne of Queen is from IND. Partition of India into Pakistan and India. Today's Border disputes are also a part of British Induced. BRITAIN OWED BILLIONS OF POUNDS TO INDIA AS DEBT OF BOTH WORLD WARS BUT DIDNOT PAY BACK. 3.5 MILLION INDIANS HAD TO FIGHT THE WARS FOR BRITAIN. DISCRIMINATION WAS WHAT BRITISH DID IN INDIA. TAXED HEAVILY AND FORCED PEOPLE TO POVERTY AND Death SPECIFICALLY CHURCHILL DIVERTED FOOD SUPPLIES AS RESERVES FROM PEOPLE OF BENGAL TO EUROPEANS WHICH CAUSED A FAMINE KILLING 3 MILLION BENGALIS IT WAS AS BAD AS THE HOLOCAUST. SADLY BRITISH PEOPLE AREN'T TAUGHT THERE HISTORY WITH FACTS. In India till 1900s Britishers staying in India had places Where they kept a board no dogs and Indians allowed inside.
@@harshrajsinhjhala6281 Nonsense, I hear this a lot, it's just fantasy dreamed up to stir controversy and sell books by those with a vested interest. The industrial revolution in Europe and America, later Japan is why their economies raced ahead, not that India's shrank, it was still growing, just because India was massively agrarian and illiterate it wasn't going to be able to compete. It still is massively agrarian btw, like over 70%.
We need to invade France again. Its wasted on the French. Anyway, we already have I believe by stealth, as the French don't like maintaining old buildings and we do, then we now own loads of their old large houses and farms. We are the new Lords of the Manor 😄
Having one of the biggest and best navies ever assembled was probably one of thee most important parts of being able to achieve what we did. I noticed a few other islands that were missed from the video, the Falklands being one of them and Diego Garcia.
Its mad when you think we're just a small island that you can travel from top to bottom within a day by car.. being the centre of the world definitely has its advantages
I like watching your reaction posts. You seem more thoughtful than some similar. You may like to know that to this day, the British people are still struggling with the loss of Empire, a century later. Even if many do not understand it, the Brexit vote was a manifestation of that struggle.
The British Empire was the largest empire the world has ever seen. The British Empire covered 13.01 million square miles of land - more than 22% of the earth's landmass. The empire had 458 million people in 1938 - more than 20% of the world's population There is no doubt that Britain was powerful. It used its wealth, its armies and its navy to defeat rival European countries and to conquer local peoples to establish its empire. However, the empire did not just rely on force. In most of the empire Britain relied heavily on local people to make it work.
When they discussed the Invasion of Mexico you said: "How did that go??" Me saying to you: Invasion of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia "How did that go?? 😉"
As you say, As you state: you really need to 'get more familiar with your geography' before launching a 'reaction'; which is littered with a very low level of the world's heritage.
I believe Hawaii was an ally and a protectorate of UK rather than part of the British Empire. The Union Flag in the canton of Hawaii flag was to warn off other nations that they had a powerful friend.
An invasion doesn't have to be conquest, an invasion is anytime you militarily take territory in another country. People still call D day an invasion, even though the purpose was to liberate France. I think you are thinking of invasion in a similar light to conquest, which is a different thing.
The English do have a knack of self appreciation, Cecil Rhodes was quoted for saying "Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life."
According to the book "All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To", there are only 22 countries Britain never invaded throughout the course of history. Think this is a better way to view it.
Your reaction made me laugh so much. It’s not England’s fault, it was the Romans. The Romans tried to conquer Scotland 🏴 also but failed. I’m Scottish and proud of all our clans. So you see that’s why Britain 🇬🇧 was a super power because the union of the crowns. They were very good dreamers and still are today lol
Except the Romans didn't "conquer Scotland" as that place didn't exist yet just as they didn't conquer England as that place didn't exist either.Britain was just a collection of tribes at that time it was hundreds of years yet before the kingdoms of Scotland and England that we now recognise appeared.
Much misdirection here: In 1066 England was invaded and conquered by the Normans. The Normans, basically a viking group that occupied mush of the Western french coast. So basically from 1066 England was ruled by the Normans. We were conquered. During the time of Edward 1st England took on the more of an English nation and Edward then began to invade and conquer Wales and similarly later tried the same with Scotland. Incidentally, Wales did not have kings, but princes of differing tribes a Celtic heritage. Hence when conquered, Edward promised the Welsh that the first born son of the english kings would be the "Prince of Wales", a tradition which largely carried on to the present day. The Normans would try to hold onto their French possessions hence the number of invasions of France later 13- 14th century was the hundred years which was initiated by the difference of the way sovereignty was passed on. One passed via male line and the other female line. England claim to France fell fallow at the time of Elizabeth 1st. So in those early days it basically the Normans (french) invading the french. Yes a very basic potted introduction, that makes English history very interesting and I make no claim of completeness, but I hope it's a little more enlightening than intro given by the video. Any criticism or correction taken in the spirit they are give.
Also interestingly Britain left talking and trading with the other nations of the world outside its empire for 25 years and when it came back towards trading with the other economies of the world it was still the most advanced country thanks in part to the British industrial revolution.
There's a huge difference in "invading" and "being part of an empire". This video classifies "British invasion" as "anywhere British (English) soldiers been". It doesn't mean all these countries were part of the Empire.
The Hundred Years’ War and Many ever since! The expansion of the British empire was always in the teeth of french opposition! The war of Jenkins ear my favourite!
We give America back to you guys and look what you have done with it. Feel free to come back to commonwealth as its now known and we will make you great again 😉
@@hakeemwhite2750 Of course you can. We've been doing it for centuries. Subdue the natives, install a Governor, law (British) and order and bobs your uncle, call it what you want.
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Hey, I’m a university student studying history in the U.K., I’ve just finished a module about empires, and obviously the British empire was a huuuge part of the module, if you have any questions I’d love to be able to help you 😊 or any questions about general Britishness, Englishness or Scottishness (I’m scottish but live in England now).
Britain did not just use military conquest instead we used trading companies also gaining control over places through agressive trade policies. This is how we got controll of part of china prior to the boxer rebelion. The French on the other hand started the worlds heroin problem with their take over of French Indochina. They used what was known as french kiss to get people addicted and subservient to them or in more recent terms Opium.
@@OriginalOwner777 that’s exactly right. India, the Jewel in the Crown of the B.E was originally a trading post controlled by the East India Company. We also had a lot of informal empires that way too.
Of course there was also the prestige of having an empire, Kaiser Wilhelm I said something about all great nations needing an empire. Plus the scramble for Africa being about stopping others gaining land and the slave trade and trade in general. The Belgian Congo was a particularly disgusting example of a colony in Africa (not that Britain was all that much better). That’s also not forgetting ‘the white mans burden’ where Europeans felt it necessary to civilise the ‘barbarians’ and ‘savages’, and bring Christianity to those nations.
There’s also a million other reasons, it’s genuinely fascinating and horrifying at the same time.
@@leea8706 Although slaves where banned in the UK first it was a yorkshire man who got the trade banned in the british controlled collonies too. Which is why Convicts where shipped to Aus as criminals they where not allowed the same rights so bypassed the antislavery laws set in place by William Wilberforce. Ironically his statue was one of the ones the BLM protesters wanted destroyed.
Hong Kong, great port for drugs basically Britain was the first drug smugglers 'opium 'it was worth a lot of money ' that's why we invaded Hong Kong, China say that was the most humiliating thing that's ever happened to China, look it up?
Every country needs a hobby
We have one clearly, teaching cricket BY FORCE
I was just about to post a comment like that!
And every country has a knob!
@@DavidSmith-ul4ns lost me there
lol Mark ... 😂
The British army was so impressed and respected Nepali fighting men that they struck a deal to have them join the British army. To this day the Gurkhas are one of the most respected regiment in the British army, and we the British people are very thankful for them, but its a real shame our governments have treated them badly from time to time.
Well said sir !
My sister regiment was the 6th Gurkha Rifles, we wore their cap badge on our uniform and they wore ours on theirs...Great people...
Our country India,since we were an colony as well,and the Nepalis(Gurkhas) are truly brave and very good,very good!! And I am honoured they are in our army as well.
The practice is increasingly unpopular in Nepal though and there have been calls for it to be ended.
@@deepyamandas1192 the british gurkhas are by far,more highly trained,than the indian gurkhas,so the only real comparison is there from nepal.The indians are clinging on to the coatails.
My history teacher once told me the British spent 1000 years being invaded, so they spent the next 1000 years invading others
Good one this . Romans , saxons , Vikings and Norman’s
The wrong way round everyone who had a boat invaded the British Isles till the English/British had some pay back not bad for a tiny little island.
I make this case often
Yeah true when pillaging near by landmasses was the thing to do I suspect no one considered they were poking a lion with a stick.
@@steveforster9764
As islands go we're not that tiny. 8th largest island in the world
Fighting the French is more of a national hobby.
@peter jones What kind of masochism is that ? ;)
@peter jones
Indeed, you only have the Germans as example, it says it all concerning the Franco-English rivalry...
Moreover, knowing that the BEF fled and had to be entirely saved by the French, it's quite funny coming from you, LOL
@peter jones
It's not at all the line taught in French schools. Not at all.
But you're reciting the line of the Anglo-saxon propaganda we often see on the Internet.
After our forces had been pierced, many offers of counter-attacks were proposed, the BEF refused to be part of any of them. On May 22, it began its retreat, while Churchill was reassuring the French and Belgian ministers Reynaud and Perliot on the British military support. Lord Gort, commanding the BEF, was ordered not to inform his Belgian and French allies about the retreat, so that they would continue to fight, covering the British retreat without even knowing it. All of this is perfectly documented.
Then, the defense of Dunkirk was almost exclusively done by French soldiers. 35,000 French will fight enable the evacuation. All of them will be killed or captured. The heroic defense of Lille (the defenders were given the honours of war by the Germans and allowed to parade gun in hand) also gave the BEF several more days to evacuate. Churchill himself had the honesty to recognize that they gave 5 more days to the Operation Dynamo.
As the German propaganda was saying, "the English are fighting to the last Frenchman".
Finally, "you" did not evacuate 140,000 Belgian and French soldiers. Firstly these soldiers were allowed to evacuate only after the last Englishman had put a foot on a ship, and 350 boats of the 850 that participated in the evacuation were French.
@peter jones My answer was probably too long and complex to understand for your brain sorry about that
And it's funny to notice that the Germans always respected and even praised us, like when Hitler said that the French were the second best soldiers in Europe after the Germans, when our "allies" mocked us. Some have honour, others don't.
@peter jones Well apparently you didn't take really well my little initial teasing so I wonder who's the butt hurt here. Worse is that you thought you were going to give me a History lesson and it seems that you quickly surrendered to the facts lol
When you take into account how small Britain really is it makes it even more impressive
I think we did pretty well for a cold, wet and windy island out in the Atlantic
Is just because we had different way off doing business. The Spanish and other major powers would conquer land and imprison or kill the people wiping out there culture. The British would hire them as soldiers under command of English Officer and add there culture to are own. I saw an old video of large parade when Britain at height of power with all the Indian elephant guards and soldiers from around the world all with there own cultures but doing a parade for the Queen in London.
@@StickTheGlue PLUS THE FACT WE BRITISH LIKE A NICE CUP OF TEA, BREWED CORRECTLY OF COURSE.
@@jamesmcleesh2688 Very Irish last name for a brit.
@@MrSchizoid405 Was not so much the British government it was the settlers who killed indigenous people for trespassing on there land many of which was not of British decent.
If you lived in the UK you'd understand why we have such a need to invade warm sunny places.
Yeah but with the very hot summers we get now we should be invading colder, icy regions.
Yes just wait until we get are navy back
Please warm and sunny Scotland needed to escape and I thank the English for helping the Scottish that don't live in Scotland get a sun tan .
@@johnegerszeghy9818 so are we going for Scotland again . Right just getting my armour on see you at the wall lads
Also British food and British women are reason enough
Hey! We like to travel.
Oh and with regards to our not liking the French... they're French, isn't that reason enough.
It's a love hate relationship. We love France, we're just not that keen on the population.
They also invaded us in 1,066 so we get to keep invading them back ever since.
i still keep 2 bows just in case,
yes, yes it is. funny thing is if it wasnt for us the americans would all be speaking french
Or Dutch. The missing U's in American English are because of a reduced French influence over the language and a greater Dutch influence instead.
How did the UK get so powerful? Two words: industrial revolution.
@@Dave-qp3cg Most of the people, the British fought already had guns and modern European artillery
"Native mightiness"...William Shakespeare
@@Dave-qp3cg And in the words of Eddie Izzard, we had a 'Flag' th-cam.com/video/_9W1zTEuKLY/w-d-xo.html
And angry little people...
Nop. Only one word colonialism. And if you really want to have a second slavery.
"It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it."
Two words:-
'Royal Navy'
They had the biggest and most impressive navy on the planet.
And they were also an island which mean they just have to rely on their navy to protect them and not worry about being invaded themselves
The skipped Spain it's self and Malta.
2 more before yours- English Oak
According to a recent Japanese study, 52% of Everything the World takes for granted has come from Britain in the last 400 years.
Positives are usually ignored regarding the British & the empire .. And so is all the bad stuff Spain, France, Portugal & other empires did! .. For instance: Hardly anyone knows, it was Portugal that started the black slave trade & that it was the British that ended it, throughout her empire (many lands & millions of people) FIRST!
@@Paul-hl8yg Exactly. But you tell that to 25 year olds who are teaching Kids revisionist history now.
The Royal Navy used to hunt down slave ships and liberate the slaves.
That isn't taught.
English kids are being taught that we were the most evil country in history and that they should be ashamed of their ancestry, culture and heritage.
Where as American kids are taught to be Proud and that they are the greatest in the World.
I'm sick of what's happening to our kids. Being brainwashed by the PC brigade and SJWs and BLM.
The Greatest Nation the World has known has gone Down the shitter.
@@brianwilson3952 Totally agree Brian, 100% .. Subtle propaganda everywhere too.. Notice what nationality the bad guy usually is in American movies? How the far left media today, makes out the UK is the bad guy in the Brexit talks? The eu can do no wrong! Britains statues can be torn down & the media not condemn it? BLM marches can destroy infrastructure & attack police with weapons & not be condemned. Yet the "far right" marches (People who are really People that care about Britain) are blatantly attacked by the media .. Slow, selected biased brainwashing!
@@Paul-hl8yg Let's put it simply. If Henry viii hadn't broke away from Rome, there wouldn't have been an Empire.
The US would be Mexican, Spanish, German and French.
Australia would be Dutch or Japanese. The industrial Revolution wouldn't have happened when it did. Slavery wouldnt have been abolished.
No modern culture the way we know it today.
Britain had more impact on the World than every other Empire combined.
India wouldn't have thousands of miles of railway and any modern infrastructure.
Etc etc etc.
Britain created the Modern World.
No ifs, buts or maybes.
And now everything great we did is being re-written by a load of nobody's with nothing but hatred and a sociology or media degree to show for their weasley existences.
@@brianwilson3952 Omg, you are me! Lol I could & have written online many times, all of what you just stated! Even modern Democracy was given to the world by Britain. Something the globalists are trying to destroy today! I'm hoping our recently independent UK (from eu) will flourish, complete with the Democracy the People deserve. However, forces are constantly at work to stop that! 👍🇬🇧
" Rule the sea, and you rule the world!" The Royal Navy was extremely powerful when our empire was at its greatest height,this was a very important element in our success.
On HMS Belfast (moored as an attraction on the River Thames in London) there is a display of the World's navys during WWII. We had by far the largest, dwarfing even the US Navy. I was shocked and impressed.
@@andrewdking over 600 my friend
"Ireland had some beef with Britain."
And people say us Brits are the masters of understatement.
To be honest, I do think they have a point. I am a very proud Englishman, but even I have to admit that over the century's , we have treated our neighbours horrifically. We really should own up to the mess we made over there.
@@ianrandle2780 no we shouldn’t none of us have done anything🤦🏼♂️
Really?... I will only give you one small example. Just one out of God knows how many. Then I will say no more on the subject.
Oliver Cromwell.
@@ianrandle2780 oh yes oliver cromwell was our fault isn’t it,,,oliver cromwell is nowadays english peoples fault,,,get over yourself history is history
@@ianrandle2780 I was born in 1990... I wasn't really in a position to talk sense into our ancient ancestors.
If we were all held accountable for the sins of our ancestors the whole world would hang.
Example: Every single human being alive today has an ancestor who reproduced through rape. Non-negotiable fact. There was a time when it was so prevalent that women actually evolved to stop advertising their ovulation as a defense mechanism. That's why humans are basically the only animal on earth that can't immediately sense when a female is "in season" so to speak.
Am I, you or anyone else tarred as a rapist because of this fact? Of course not... Not our hands, not our decision, not our punishment to take and not our debt to pay.
England became so powerful because of its desire to trade and explore. This drove the country to build its navy.
It's simple, we kept getting invaded, got pissed off and went on a thousand year rampage. When we cooled off we gave most of it back so it's all good, right? no harm done?
Sounds about right mate well said😉👍
To try and answer your final questions: Britain was one of the first centralised countries in the world, under the Tudors. Being an island, it always had a big navy. The agricultural and industrial revolutions began in Britain. For its size it had a large population. It had a tradition of free thought which led to invention and innovation. It was the first country to utilise steam power for machines and railways. It had a proselytising religion. It was obsessed with trade and international commerce. All these factors led to it punching above its weight from about 1700 to 1900.
Free thought was why the Pilgrim Fathers we 'encouraged' to leave and go to America . What Americans don't realise is that the passengers of the Mayflower wanted a much more ridged, and strict religious society than the Government of the day was will to impose on rest of the British public.
Good summation.
@@ianrandle2780 absolutely, they wanted to be free to persecute, not to be free from persecution
Incorrect; it didn't 'always' have a big navy - Henry 8th started with 5 millitary ships (half of which were horribly outdated) in his navy and died with around 40 millitary ships, most of which were pretty modern designs. While he might've been a poor father, a worse husband and a shitty human in general - he did set up his daughter Elizabeth 1st with the seed of a naval empire.
Plus we used our wealth to influence people from some of these countries like India to fight under the British flag against people from their homeland
One silly question from you in there. When talking about invading Mexico you said "How did that go?". ROFL. We are British, we won of course 😘.
When she said that I replied 'well we got our money of course' lmao
Ehhh, Not really
It was mostly the French, The brits didn't do much other than bomb stuff, and later backed down once payment was agreed on
Now you know why English is so widely spoken.
True!
So excited about the UK future! #EU #Brexit #independentcountry #Welldoneboris
@@DavidSmith-ul4ns tories 🤮
@@Jamie-1709 yay cause labour are so amazing.
@@matt7775 going by your grammar, you’re a working class man. Working class man voting conservative 🤡🤡
The comments here are highly entertaining. British humour is just in tune with my own Australian sense of what's funny. I saw a post from a Brit on another channel along the lines of : "You need to understand that we British do everything to piss off the French. That's why we put the London Eurostar (channel tunnel train) terminal at Waterloo" Been chuckling at that for weeks now.
Britain all the way back has been a warrior nation that has always enjoyed a good scrap .
How did we do it? Simple. Two words. Bacon sandwiches. You start your day with a bacon butty then there’s nothing you can’t do that day.
Don't forget a nice cup of tea too!
God's cure for vegetarianism.
cheerio my boyyyyy
And Yorkshire tea ladss
HP sauce too.
The British weren't greedy they were just doing what every advanced country in the world was doing, it just happened to be the best at it, the American revolution was a civil war Brits fighting Brits. they had a real war going on in Europe and a vote was taken in parliament on if they should send more troops to America it was voted down as it was an unpopular conflict as large parts of America were owed by Brits before the war and continued to be owned after and trade continued, America didn't even bother to tell the French who'd bankrupted themselves.
i would say the spanish and brits were equal until around the 1700s
@@r32guy85 Sir Francis Drake would disagree.
We fought smarter not harder.
Well it's a no brainer do you deal with the battles raging on at your door step (napoleon) or do you send troops on 2 month voyagers (each way) to deal with a break away colony on the other side of the globe?
Reasons for Britain's dominance in world affaits,
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here is a tidier version.(edited)
Reasons for Britain's dominance in world affairs.
In immediate, proximate, terms the causes are economic Britain was the strongest nation in the world bexcause it was the richest
The Empire was so vast because it was responsible for such a large fraction of global GDP. The UK say 1730 to 1875 was "the workshop oc the world".
In turn economic dominance came from early restructuring of the economy and society around that set of production changes called Revolutons. |First in the Agrarian Revolution then the Industrial.
The rise of a mercantile middle class and freedoom of new capital monies appearing in capital markets (stock markets) to find high returns in real markets for goods. The City of London being the result.
The unfortunate side efffec of these Revolutionary changes were profouind. The British working classes were indebted to landowners and employers. High rents, low wages, high interest on debts sent many W/C Brits into being impoverished, vagrant, forced into workhouses, criminilised and not infrequently transported to Australia or presse into mllitary service. The orphanages, churches, infrmaries asylums and prisons werre full the bellies amd minds of the p;oor were all too often empty
Others took marginal labour as "navigation" or stone breaking. Leaving the fich liberals fuiding charities to ameliorate and engaging in poltical reform of systems which produced the problems and their weath in the first place
In analysis deeper than that above, there is dispute but factors often mentioned include the features of the UK
1 Island
2 Limestone base in the south hesvily glaciated, Maritime temperate climate. Ideal for artable cash crop farming on the rotation model. HIgh rainfall, well drained.
3. Coal and Irion abundant and acessible
4 the Common Law
5 the Protestant faith (more science friendly than catholicism)
6 the English language many roots thus many words . Many near synonyms allowig great specificity in contacts for example
7 Mercantile to working class social boundariies open in both directiions
8 better Science and better application thereof (intellectiuas property cconcepts especially patents)
9 Better adminisrtration (tradition of honest and indpendent civil service)
10 an Army that stayed out of politics (after Cromwell)
ok?
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for ass lng as that lasted, was in immediste terms economic. Britain wawas the strongest nation in the world bexcause it was the richest It was a vast gobal E,mpirr bexcaure it was responsible for such a large fraction of global GDP. The UK say 1730 to 1875 was "the workshop oc the world".
In turn eomomic dominance came from early restructuring of the economy and society around that change first in the Agrarian Revolution then the Industrial. The rise of a mercantile middle class and freedoom of new caspital to find high returns in formal markets - The City of London.
Meaning that the working classes were impoverished, criminilised and not infrequently transported or pressd into mluitasry service, indebted to labndowners and employers. Many histories of people renfdered vagrant, forced into fsctories, workhouses, insane asylums., prisns or on suc labioyr as "navigation" or stone breaking. Leaving the fich fuiding charities to ameliorate and leaving liberals to advocated poltical reform of systems which produced the problems in the first place
In analyss deeper than that above, there is dispute but factors often mentioned include
1 Island
2 Limestone base in the south hesvily glaciated, Maritime temperate climate. Ideal for artable cash crop farming on the rotation model. HIgh rainfall, well drained.
3. Coal and Irion abundant annd acessible
4 the Common Law
5 the Protestant faith (more science friendly than catholicism)
6 the English language many roots thus many words . Many near synonyms allowig great specificity in contacts for example
7 Mercantile to working classs booundariies open in boyth directiions
8 better Science and aplicatio thereof (intellectiuas property cconcepts especially patents)
9 Better adminisrtration (tradition of honest and indpendent civil service)
10 an Army that staayed out of politics (after Cromwell)
yeah we and the french have hated each other for 900 years and i don't see it stopping anytime soon
LOL
What do u mean 900 yrs. is that England or British empire. If British empire u need to redo the maths. 👍
Especially now they are trying to take our fish, maybe another invasion is on the cards soon, how dare they try and take our fish 🐠
The only reason we allied with them during the World wars was because we saw Germany invade them and said “hey, your not allowed to invade France only we’re allowed to invade France”. We are best mates but also sworn enemies
Yeah, and we;ve been kicking their asses for centuries!
How could we pull it off?
To quote Blackadder. "Gun beats Spear"
Brains wins.
If the Africans invented the gun before the Europeans would we have eliminated racism?
Yes the British Antarctic Territory was claimed in 1908 and contains a region called Queen Elizabeth Land.
Essentially England had a crash course in being invaded from 43AD to 1,066AD. After that they had a pretty good idea how invasions worked and were clearly successful in applying their learned knowledge to the rest of the world.
look at the 1300s invasions of britain from the spanish
There was no England in 43AD misconceptions everywhere.
Would william of orange be classed as an invasion?
What can I say, we learned everything from the romans, but did it better😁
@@username.exenotfound2943 He was literally asked to take over the country by parliament so.... no? Maybe? Sometimes?
Those 13 stripes on the US flag 🇺🇸 will always represent Britain🇬🇧.
So will the Union Jack on Hawaii's state flag 😊
and the RED WHITE and BLUE.
USA is so unique, so much history in such a short time!! If that makes sense??
@@jamieforrester2857 its history pales into insignificance compared to mother land Britain.
@@themanftheworld8439 I agree with you but just look how much it progressed in such a short time is quite fascinating, what Britain done was over a long period of time but also fascinating with the tools it had and population size for its day, Britain will never be surpassed by any one it's power and leadership for all those years is quite remarkable good or bad but how America rose so quickly is like I said fascinating.
Think how easy your history test is compared to our British test!
The Empire was built on trade not as mistakenly described in the video, by invasion. The video goes pear shaped right from the beginning, the English didn't go into Ireland for no reason, they did so because England was perpetually being 'invaded' by Irish tribes who raped, pillaged and took slaves. The only time Ireland has ever been united was when it was under British rule, prior to that it was a country of warring tribes who were at each others throats all the time. No Empire is ever perfect but its Empires that have driven mankind forward, overall the Empire was more a force for good than bad and gave the world the longest period of peace it has ever known.
People esp Irish/Scots conveniently forget that when Ireland was invaded, it was not actually by the ENGLISH rulers, by then it was Norman, due to the invasion of 1066. The Normans were as hated by the English! Hence the stories of Robin hood.
We were basically the bullied kid for years up until 1066 when we hit puberty and the rest is history
Britain turned the richest country in the world(INDIA🇮🇳) *( which had 25% of world trade to 2%*) into a very poor one. Destroyed the cultural heritage of 1000s of YEARS. Looted, Massacred & exploited people.
Used Railways for plunder and loot to ship the countries wealth to Britain.
Made rich Indian weavers, farmers, merchants into beggars.
Indias De industrialization funded Britain's Industrialization.
Today's Problems of racism, Poverty in India. Millions of Killings in India 🇮🇳by Britain.
For India Britain was the worst historical stain in 1000s of years of history.
The current diamond Kohinoor on the throne of Queen is from IND. Partition of India into Pakistan and India. Today's Border disputes are also a part of British Induced.
BRITAIN OWED BILLIONS OF POUNDS TO INDIA AS DEBT OF BOTH WORLD WARS BUT DIDNOT PAY BACK.
3.5 MILLION INDIANS HAD TO FIGHT THE WARS FOR BRITAIN.
DISCRIMINATION WAS WHAT BRITISH DID IN INDIA.
TAXED HEAVILY AND FORCED PEOPLE TO POVERTY AND Death SPECIFICALLY CHURCHILL DIVERTED FOOD SUPPLIES AS RESERVES FROM PEOPLE OF BENGAL TO EUROPEANS WHICH CAUSED A FAMINE KILLING 3 MILLION BENGALIS IT WAS AS BAD AS THE HOLOCAUST.
SADLY BRITISH PEOPLE AREN'T TAUGHT THERE HISTORY WITH FACTS.
In India till 1900s Britishers staying in India had places Where they kept a board no dogs and Indians allowed inside.
@@harshrajsinhjhala6281 did you put this on every comment? I will copy and paste what I said earlier..
@Harshrajsinh Jhala utter BS on this one, keep your angry rant to yourself and do some more research before you go wrongly attacking a country which completely changed the world for the better and is the reason that the world is like it is today with it's revolutionary ideas and genius inventions.. you should be thanking the British not blaming them for the worlds problems.
@@harshrajsinhjhala6281 wow you had the time to write that
Not exactly,
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North
"Wonderful country France.... Pity about the French" 😂🇫🇷
God cant trust us in the dark he dont know what we would do
The trouble with Franceland........... is that it's full of French!
Nice one 🇬🇧👍
4:15 he means British tourists that goes to Spain each year.
18 million British people holiday in Spain each year
The weather was alright when we first invaded but we told ‘em, “We like it here but we want some changes, there ain’t no bingo in the evening, the Cabaret is rubbish and we’re struggling to find a roast on Sundays” 🤣
@@tsrgoinc Shamelessly stolen from Micky Flanagan.
Spain is basically the British version of Florida. :D
as Al Murray says, "staying match fit" 😂
It’s a really great question you pose towards the end of your video where you ask why Britain was able to do this whilst other countries were not. It essentially comes down to one key thing: approach to Empire. If you look at the vast bulk of empires throughout history their objective has been to acquire more land and to absorb people. A great example would be empires like the Portuguese and the Spanish where they took all of the wealth they found in terms of gold, silver and jewels etc. and shipped it back to Spain. So once they had exhausted that supply they aren’t left with as many natural resources. The British empire in contrast was built on trade, there was not this initial drive to gain land, it was more a case of creating optimal trade that would grow the wealth of the economy over time. This was done by the least interference possible, only when a rival nation such as France attempted a takeover would Britain then step in more directly. Once Britain was in this situation they then built up the area in terms of creating an infrastructure such as building railways etc. This is also essentially why you tend to find looking globally a much higher proportion of the more developed countries had a British background than say a French or Spanish one, because of these types of foundations and infrastructure.
Prithee, mr verra, they had "bigger guns"....simple, really. ( a drop of "levity" keeps ya sane !)
How? We were lucky
1 we're an Island nation so we are difficult to invade and this also prevented other nations from intervening. This is why it took so long for France to begin it's empire, because it spent all it's time fighting the Habsburgs in Germany and the Habsburgs in Spain and the Britons in Brittony and the Burgundians in you get the idea.
2 We were a united people. In the sense that all the English identified as English, Scots as Scottish, Welsh as Welsh rather than a united British identity. But still, we didn't have the issues Germany had until 1861 when it was unified or that the Italians had until their unification in 1870. We were able to come together and concentrate on external threats and opportunities.
3 By the 1600s, Britain had built up a decent navy, which grew to a formidable one in the 1700s. All island nations which went on to be successful had to have a navy first, Japan for instance could of never got so far in WW2 if not for it's navy. Just ignore that a large portion of those ships were made in British dockyards... sorry about that.
4 (Most Important) Britain was the first country which industrialised. This inevitably led to new advancements and technologies to be developed. Business grew and from then on, trade became the most important factor in British foreign policy and led to Britain's invasions. Either you traded with Britain (and only Britain) or you would be invaded. And our advancements in technology gave a massive advantage.
Almost every other country which went on to start it's own empire had to industrialise first. France, Germany, Italy, Japan(in just 10 years as well) and America had to industrialise in order to gain an advantage for upcoming conflicts.
Take the Franco-prussian war. Prussia was the more industrialised of the two and that helped give them an advantage (more/better trains and railways, better manufactured weapons etc)
Tied in with the 4th point is that Britain had large and well funded science departments. This helped grow Britain's military as well as other important factors. For example, Britain was exploring Africa's heartland 40 years before the Berlin Conference 1875-6 and the Scramble for Africa, mostly done by David Livingstone. The Conference stated that a country can take any African land it wants but must hand it over if another country can prove it has had pre-existing influence in the contested region. The exploring done by Livingstone gave Britain a head start.
In short Britain managed to obtain it's empire due to
Being out of the other major powers way
Unity
Strong navy
Industrialising
Greater emphasis on Science and technology than most other countries.
Hope that helps.
We needed someone to play Cricket and Rugby with !.
Thanks for bringing cricket to South asia
Your welcome, but your not playing by the unwritten rule, it's our game your not meant to beat us at it.
@@jamingaming9251 Only Colonials may beat us 🤔
600 miles long and 300 miles wide, yet we owned the biggest empire in the history, and today at any point in 24 hrs the sun never sets on theBritish Empire, the sun is always shining on acountry that still recognises the Queen as their Head of State.
The sun never sets on the British Empire because God doesn't trust us in the dark
@@alanmahoney167 LOL
In our Empire days, we didn't "Invade" anywhere. We pretty much "bought" the Empire. We've had many wars (pre Empire) and invaded loads of European places (country names are mostly meaningless because they all changed...France, Italy & Germany didn't even exist until the 19th century). The Empire was a trade based enterprise...not an invasion world tour.
yes most of it was a reaction to threats to trade arrangements, we didnt seek it but ended up with it
It was all about spondoolicks , still is.
Did you just say France didn't exist before the 19th century ? Or am I misreading you
@@evhemer4395 That is what I said but I must admit I was wrong...but only by 8 years! The Republic of France was formed in 1792.
@@stan690 Yes but the country and its people existed long before the Republic. Just like England or Spain "exist" today but are not Republics. The first ruler named "King of France" was Philippe August in the XIIth century :)
I'm just waiting for part 2.....The empire strikes back!
It's happening right now under your noses. Look at Manchester, Birmingham, even London. Wake up UK. You're being white-anted from within.
'I didn't like war until I realised we [the English] were so bloody good at it.' - Ricky Gervais
The British empire had the best navy at the time
Still has! Not talking size! But still the best hands down
U sure? because the British and the French were working together against the Dutch in the Anglo war and the Dutch defeated both navy’s back then
@Angus Hanna look it up: anglo dutch war
@Angus Hanna the video she is reacting to is all the countries who britain invaded but the dutch defended their country from a british and french land invasion
@Angus Hanna look up the movie michiel de ruyter or just the person
Up until the First World War it was British policy to maintain a navy that was bigger and more powerful than the navies of the next two navel powers combined. Their naval supremacy made them virtually unchallenged on the high seas.
You're amazed such a small country could amass such a large empire but Rome was just a city and it's empire was pretty impressive!
Good point
It was essentially the whole world known to Rome fell to them too.
Very true!
Alexander the Great did pretty well as well. He didn't go as far north and west as the Romans did but he went and invaded Persia, Egypt, lots of the middle east and India long before the Romans even had an empire.
@Hassan Salime I'm sorry, I've lost the link between Rome, its empire and BLM.
6:51 In WWII, British soldiers did enter Germany and Austria, so they do count as invasions.
"They really do not like the French"
In fairness, the feeling is mutual.
Correction , We hate the French Girlies.
"invading spain by the millions every winter" refers to spain being a popular tourism hotspot for us :)
Is winter time to run off we may be loyal to our own counties but fuck staying there in that weather, we just come home to storming fucking rain and say AHHH HOME
@@yerfriendlyneighborhoodsco3337 Not enough of "up the road" humour, on here. Indeed, too many scottish ba, nah, humourless cxxxs !!
Lol everyone has a beef with us in the UK. We are use to being hated.
When you call the British empire greedy I’d remind you that the french and Spanish were doing the same thing we were just better at it
@@danhughes1238 a lot of the time we were taking land from the french and Spanish that they had already taken. Anything to spite them
Everyone hates us and we don't care
Like Millwall on an away tour.
From ruling the waves to a little xenophobic nation in the Atlantic how the mighty have fallen
so when he says Modern day Belgium, he means the land that is nowdays called Belgium, Belgium was not a country back then
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An invasion is an invasion regardless of the circumstances. War is usually a part reason or consequence of an invasion, so ruling out WWI & WWII as ‘invasions’ doesn’t make any sense at all.
Also, why do you think there are two shades of red shown? The light (pink) red indicates invasion only... while the dark red indicates invasion and annexation.
Finally, the video misses out Malta, the Falklands and South Georgia.
Not "greedy", we just felt the world needed cricket.
I'm smiling at that...could'nt resist it.
and football
@@HigginsBiggins The Empire was about cricket. Colonisation was about football.
Most of the Caribbean islands weren’t invaded by the British they were found/ discovered by British explorers
But the native Americans were invaded
Love from the UK🇬🇧
@@DerekIngoe pretty sure you might find that the Spanish were the first Europeans to settle and then explore the American continent???
@@ianjenkins2008 South America sure. But did they settle in North America? I know they got Florida but..
Also to add to my comment - The Vikings technically were the first Europeans to settle and I guess explore? Depends how far you'd need to go to class as exploring.
@@ParsleyParsnipsGaming yawn!!!!!
Don’t need a history lesson.......
as to the British Invasion of Kuwait in 1991..... think you might find it was a coalition of several armed forces the main bulk was US forces......
and it wasn’t an INVASION it was a liberation of Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion!!!!!!!!
How do I know this !!!! Because I’m not just talking about a part of history...... I was actually there!!!!!!!!
How did we do it? Well, as any man will tell you, "size isn't everything!".......................................the ancient Englishman.
Professional army is the key. We invented the world's first professional army during the English civil war.
@@stuartfitch7093 Change it to modern army and you are right. Professional army’s were around since the antique. Think about the romans only for example.
Not bad for our little country, pretty Damn impressive if you ask me lol
Britain is the biggest empire in history on all those metrics, so "...countries that were invaded...." YES Britain win, "...amount of land mass..." YES Britain win, and "...amount of people that were under the British rule..." YES Britain win on that metric as well! :)
How did they do it?
The three greatest inventions in human history.
1-Penicillin-(80% of all humans today wouldn't exist without it)
2-The magna carter-(Human rights, Law and order)
3-The company-(Brought the industrial revolution, innovation and technology)
Glad to be British! Best country in the world 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Britain is not a country but one nation made up of 4 countries.
Still more majestic shalt thou rise,
More dreadful from each foreign stroke,
As the loud blast that tears the skies
Serves but to root thy native oak.
God save her Majesty! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧💪
Imagine if canzuk happens soon. The empire could exist even better than before as it could be more peaceful and less aggressive in my opinion. Long live the Empire.
@@themanftheworld8439 other way around and as a Welsh person we don't count England
@@Generalphoenix8438 Long Live the empire and her majesty
It would be quicker dear just to list the places that Britain hasn't invaded.
Dear?!! "Dear?!! wow not patronising at all.
@@BeckyPoleninja
Love ,Dear, My lover and many others are all polite greetings in different parts of the UK
They are not meant to be rude or nasty
A bit like local colloquialisms
@@lionel66cajppppp0 I know I am English, but "Dear" can be very patronising. Although no where near as offensive as "woman" hahaha :)
@@BeckyPoleninja
Haha true,and who knows he may have meant it to be patronising
Or maybe he is being camp, they use dear all the time in normal speech
@@BeckyPoleninja to be fair to the lad he was only responding in kind to the extremely patronising first opening line of this video.
no matter what metric you use Britain tops the empire leader board
That's right, World, no need to thank us!
Watch the movie “Zulu” this was part of basic training in the Australia Army in the 1970’s, this shows the culture.
Makes me perversely proud to be British!
At least you know it's perverse
Most of these were not invasions at all. The video she is watching is just click bait.
@@distantthunder12ck55 Britain turned the richest country in the world(INDIA🇮🇳) *( which had 25% of world trade to 2%*) into a very poor one. Destroyed the cultural heritage of 1000s of YEARS. Looted, Massacred & exploited people.
Used Railways for plunder and loot to ship the countries wealth to Britain.
Made rich Indian weavers, farmers, merchants into beggars.
Indias De industrialization funded Britain's Industrialization.
Today's Problems of racism, Poverty in India. Millions of Killings in India 🇮🇳by Britain.
For India Britain was the worst historical stain in 1000s of years of history.
The current diamond Kohinoor on the throne of Queen is from IND. Partition of India into Pakistan and India. Today's Border disputes are also a part of British Induced.
BRITAIN OWED BILLIONS OF POUNDS TO INDIA AS DEBT OF BOTH WORLD WARS BUT DIDNOT PAY BACK.
3.5 MILLION INDIANS HAD TO FIGHT THE WARS FOR BRITAIN.
DISCRIMINATION WAS WHAT BRITISH DID IN INDIA.
TAXED HEAVILY AND FORCED PEOPLE TO POVERTY AND Death SPECIFICALLY CHURCHILL DIVERTED FOOD SUPPLIES AS RESERVES FROM PEOPLE OF BENGAL TO EUROPEANS WHICH CAUSED A FAMINE KILLING 3 MILLION BENGALIS IT WAS AS BAD AS THE HOLOCAUST.
SADLY BRITISH PEOPLE AREN'T TAUGHT THERE HISTORY WITH FACTS.
In India till 1900s Britishers staying in India had places Where they kept a board no dogs and Indians allowed inside.
@@harshrajsinhjhala6281 Nonsense, I hear this a lot, it's just fantasy dreamed up to stir controversy and sell books by those with a vested interest. The industrial revolution in Europe and America, later Japan is why their economies raced ahead, not that India's shrank, it was still growing, just because India was massively agrarian and illiterate it wasn't going to be able to compete. It still is massively agrarian btw, like over 70%.
@@vatnidd There's a lot to be proud of actually for Britain.
If we’ve missed anywhere, let us know, we’ll get you on the list for when COVID is over🤣
We need to invade France again. Its wasted on the French. Anyway, we already have I believe by stealth, as the French don't like maintaining old buildings and we do, then we now own loads of their old large houses and farms. We are the new Lords of the Manor 😄
Apparently we are invading the world again with our top class British made new variant of covid19... GO BRITAIN.. 😂
Ha ha ha. I like the text from John buyers... (British humour at it's best)!!🤣🤣🤣👍
Malta, the Falklands and South Georgia omitted.
Britain no longer has that sort of power. It is weak compared to it's ancestor.
Having one of the biggest and best navies ever assembled was probably one of thee most important parts of being able to achieve what we did. I noticed a few other islands that were missed from the video, the Falklands being one of them and Diego Garcia.
Modern British invasion he referred to is vacationers.
It's the most popular holiday destination around 15 million every year
Its mad when you think we're just a small island that you can travel from top to bottom within a day by car.. being the centre of the world definitely has its advantages
Did you know us in the uk got more castles than any other country in the world
It was the best way we could repress ourselves. Some of that still happens today.
yes castles built to keep the peasents out nowadays the peasents pay to enter!!!
@@onetech3984 Germany has quite a few castles too, I bet they are not far behind us in number of castles.
Now you know why the rest of the world loves it whenever we lose at football.
I like watching your reaction posts. You seem more thoughtful than some similar. You may like to know that to this day, the British people are still struggling with the loss of Empire, a century later. Even if many do not understand it, the Brexit vote was a manifestation of that struggle.
The British Empire was the largest empire the world has ever seen. The British Empire covered 13.01 million square miles of land - more than 22% of the earth's landmass. The empire had 458 million people in 1938 - more than 20% of the world's population
There is no doubt that Britain was powerful. It used its wealth, its armies and its navy to defeat rival European countries and to conquer local peoples to establish its empire. However, the empire did not just rely on force. In most of the empire Britain relied heavily on local people to make it work.
When they discussed the Invasion of Mexico you said:
"How did that go??"
Me saying to you:
Invasion of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
"How did that go?? 😉"
oooof scoreboard, scoreboard ok i wont type the family guy sketch
I knew someone would say that
Legend
As you say,
As you state: you really need to 'get more familiar with your geography' before launching a 'reaction'; which is littered with a very low level of the world's heritage.
They didn’t mention Hawaii - that was British too, at some point, I think?
And we are still on its flag👍
I believe Hawaii was an ally and a protectorate of UK rather than part of the British Empire. The Union Flag in the canton of Hawaii flag was to warn off other nations that they had a powerful friend.
Got the Union flag in the Hawai state flag - the only foreign flag in a US state's flag.
An invasion doesn't have to be conquest, an invasion is anytime you militarily take territory in another country. People still call D day an invasion, even though the purpose was to liberate France. I think you are thinking of invasion in a similar light to conquest, which is a different thing.
The English do have a knack of self appreciation, Cecil Rhodes was quoted for saying "Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life."
According to the book "All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To", there are only 22 countries Britain never invaded throughout the course of history. Think this is a better way to view it.
Your reaction made me laugh so much. It’s not England’s fault, it was the Romans. The Romans tried to conquer Scotland 🏴 also but failed. I’m Scottish and proud of all our clans. So you see that’s why Britain 🇬🇧 was a super power because the union of the crowns. They were very good dreamers and still are today lol
They did invade didnt fail it wasnt worth the bother in the highlands nowt the Romans wanted to battle for so they fell back.
Britain was a hyperpower and it's height - not just a mere superpower ;)
Yet the Irish invaded Scotland giving the country its name.
Except the Romans didn't "conquer Scotland" as that place didn't exist yet just as they didn't conquer England as that place didn't exist either.Britain was just a collection of tribes at that time it was hundreds of years yet before the kingdoms of Scotland and England that we now recognise appeared.
Who, Eyz's, the jocks ?....Do'nt go all serious now, mush.
as the song says britania rules the sea... water hits land and it's mine lol
Much misdirection here: In 1066 England was invaded and conquered by the Normans. The Normans, basically a viking group that occupied mush of the Western french coast. So basically from 1066 England was ruled by the Normans. We were conquered. During the time of Edward 1st England took on the more of an English nation and Edward then began to invade and conquer Wales and similarly later tried the same with Scotland. Incidentally, Wales did not have kings, but princes of differing tribes a Celtic heritage. Hence when conquered, Edward promised the Welsh that the first born son of the english kings would be the "Prince of Wales", a tradition which largely carried on to the present day. The Normans would try to hold onto their French possessions hence the number of invasions of France later 13- 14th century was the hundred years which was initiated by the difference of the way sovereignty was passed on. One passed via male line and the other female line. England claim to France fell fallow at the time of Elizabeth 1st.
So in those early days it basically the Normans (french) invading the french.
Yes a very basic potted introduction, that makes English history very interesting and I make no claim of completeness, but I hope it's a little more enlightening than intro given by the video. Any criticism or correction taken in the spirit they are give.
I really hate when i see people confuse england and britain
There’s the British Antarctic territory and a few others that are still left. It’s interesting to see and learn. Regardless of views
History is written by the victor!
This explains all the blank pages in french history books. 🤭
And why the exploits of the nazis aint glorified like the so called brutish empire...
Hey, that's not fair. French history books aren't all blank pages. Most of those were torn out to make little flags!
@@MINKIN2 😆😆
@@44krishnan79 ask a jew.
The French language has literally influenced Modern English, which is why the British strive to put blank pages in the history of France.
When we've been unable to fight on foreign shores we British have loved to fight amongst ourselves and that's part of our rich history .
There’s no “hatred” of the French; just banter🤗
Indeed - they have a necessary arrogance that is fun to see in action....
When you talk about invasion, in the words of Al Murray it was "two men on a bicycle'
In short.
Earth: *exists*
England: MINE!
Dibs is strong and we called it
It's like those seagulls in the cartoon, "mine, mine, mine..'
"Your base is mine now" lol
Also interestingly Britain left talking and trading with the other nations of the world outside its empire for 25 years and when it came back towards trading with the other economies of the world it was still the most advanced country thanks in part to the British industrial revolution.
12:15 yep Hong Kong was a British colony, only until the lease ran out, then we had to hand it back.
There regrettably wish we still had charge now the Chinese are at it now
we didn't hate the French, it was just a form of sport, you know, like bear hunting in America
We didn't do bear hunting we did frog hunting 😂
There's a huge difference in "invading" and "being part of an empire". This video classifies "British invasion" as "anywhere British (English) soldiers been". It doesn't mean all these countries were part of the Empire.
The Hundred Years’ War and Many ever since! The expansion of the British empire was always in the teeth of french opposition! The war of Jenkins ear my favourite!
7:20 nah they had conquered them for ages. It wasn’t trying to aid them either, we burned down a fair few cities.
Talking about the British see what the English done by themselves,forght the Welsh,Scottish and Irish
Well they take a lot of the credit, but anyone that knows anything about anything knows that it was a collaborative effort.
Wales has never officially or legally been conquered the current version of rule over wales is totally illegal. read it up.
@@solomonstemplers I don't think that's how conquest works
3 reasons: a strong military, industrialisation and political power!
The video is just supposed to show you where we’ve been, invaded and probably conquered.
We give America back to you guys and look what you have done with it. Feel free to come back to commonwealth as its now known and we will make you great again 😉
New York can be renamed “New Abingdon Upon Sea”
Re-discovered... You can't discover where people already lived
@@hakeemwhite2750 Of course you can. We've been doing it for centuries. Subdue the natives, install a Governor, law (British) and order and bobs your uncle, call it what you want.
But remember they owe us 300 years worth of unpaid taxes too ;)
they measure it in people, land mass, and duration and military might
Biggest Empire in - all of the above.
Falklands: are we a joke, we are literally still English lol
BRITISH, ffs.
@@scottneil1187 meant that
@Zain Ansari so there part of the over sea territoires there part of the british crown not quite the uk
Only an American wouldn’t count bombing strikes as an invasion.