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Nepal put up such a good fight that the Brits asked them to join the British army which are known as the Gurkhas .
They're good lads. As nice as anything but fight like tigers when they need too.
They have been proven to be super soldiers,as they can channel oxygen better than any other human,as they are born at high altitude👍and fight generally low altitude🍻
Brothers in arms for 200 years top lads.
They left out some places for example the Falklands and South Georgia. We are in Antarctica, plus some more islands in the South Pacific. The Royal Navy was our main strength.
@@dorothysimpson2804 my grandad was a petty officer on the HMS Repulse,and was kind enough to help build the penyoug railway,but luckily he came home!!
“Englands pretty small”
Royal Navy: “Hold our beers”
Apologies to any country the Brits ignored.
@@liamloxley1222 Im afraid it is.
You were on the list but we couldn't quite get around to you.
Lol. That's funny. 😊
We were at more places than were named, the Falklands, South Georgia, Islands in the South Pacific, Antarctica. Ours is the only Empire that actually turned into a Commonwealth of countries.
Tru Say,Mi Sistren..
As others have said the English/British main weapon was the Royal Navy for a time it was the most powerful navy in the world. If you look at where the British started their invasions nearly all of them was from the sea
A quick summary, in case you're confused about slavery: 1) it happened to everyone, all over the world, throughout history. 2) East Africa was essentially a bunch of slave-colonies for the Middle East, but they made sure to castrate all black slaves so they couldn't breed. 3) West African rulers captured each others' tribespeople to sell to the Middle East too, but had to trek acoss the continent/Sahara to deliver them, so grabbed the opportunity to sell them to the Europeans when they arrived. 4) Most of the Atlantic slave trade was to Portugese and Spanish South/Central America. When Britain was the world's superpower we banned slavery in the Empire, and fought wars to end it globally. See "The British Crusade Against Slavery"
"that`s crazy England is pretty small..."
hold on there, sparky.... you`re only 2 minutes in..
When I heard that I just started chuckling to myself thinking "Ooooh you have got no idea yet." 😂
It was Great Britain. Not England 🇬🇧
@@grahamfrear9270To be fair, it says England, and then Britain, and Britain didn't exist as a united political entity till 1707...and this starts with England invading Ireland (whilst omitting the earlier Gael Norse raids and invasions of England) several hundred years before it's legal union with either Wales (by the Welsh Tudors) or Scotland (by the Scottish Stewarts).
I like your channel, good reactions! This video your reacting to is good but this doesn't mention how many countries have tried to invade and take over our island nation. The Romans, the Germanic peoples, the Vikings, the Normans, the French, and the Dutch, the Spanish, Oh and the Nazi's. Why do you think we have so many castles and fortified cities, we have been fighting everyone for a long time. People have been living on this little island we call Britain for 500,000 years.
Makes sense! I gotta find or make a video telling those stories!
To be fair France invaded us first 😂 they were asking for it
And they've been paying for that particular excursion ever since
@@Beefy5039 😂 they certainly have
Enjoyed your comments and perspective. The British Empire was the last and most recent - hence it's impact on the world today. It's where the industrial revolution began, with great innovation, and of course it had the most powerful navy in the world for 300 years. Britain really did rule the waves! The British now tend to play down their achievements - colonialism and imperialism are not favourable tags these days - and as the last empire still in living memory for many, we tend to receive much more criticism than from other empires gone before. The saying "The sun never sets on the British Empire" was not a romantic notion - it was a fact because it was global. What was done was done - and we view it now with the benefit of hindsight. But the world has a lot to thank the British for - warts and all! Kudos to you Sir!
You’ve got to remember with slavery whether it be America, U.K. or anywhere else it wasn’t 95% of the citizens it was some of the ruling elite. Similar to how the ruling elite of Africa were participating in slavery. In the U.K. outside of the ruling class the rest of the population during that time period were incredibly poor living in pretty horrendous conditions they were also sheltered from slavery as they weren’t exposed to it often if at all
About 2 million slaves were taken from the coasts around Europe by Barbary pirates I think 16-18th century. there are records in Cornish villages of who was taken. Interestingly some were given their freedom and either married there and started families or came back. Anyone feel free to correct the figures ;-)
lot of invasions of France, but to be fair it went both ways and the first invasion noted on that list was during the reign of William the Conqueror - the Norman French Duke who had taken the English throne a decade earlier. That wasn't the English invading France, that was a Norman duke waging war against his French feudal lord, while also being the King of England.
The Duke of Normandy, in France, 'William the Conqueror' invaded England because he was also descended from English royalty and had a claim to the English throne.
@@barnowl. Some of the first things he did was heavy taxes and giving English land away to Norman nobles. The English should have kicked him right back across the channel to Normandy. He conquered England to milk it, why he made the Doomsday Book to list all land and resources in the UK. Why he built castles everywhere to maintain control over his new tax cows.
I count one home fixture that went into extra time, most of it was the English on away trips...and it was the Normans, which if I understand things back then calling a Norman French is akin to calling a Scot, English
The English land was invaded by the Saxons, Angles and Jutes who formed into the English people, also the Vikings in the first thousand years CE. All were from North- Eastern Europe. The Welsh, Cornish, and Devon people were there before them as well as the Scottish. The Normans from Normandy in France (English conquered land) invaded mainland England in 1066. I'm an Australian of Welsh and English ethnicity.
Warzone
@@NAIATHEDRAGON Rome also made the native peoples of this Island there bitch until they left, the people knew nothing but war and bondage.
Technology is not enough to explain England's history. Technology, natural resources, geography, culture, migration, climate, internal and external conflicts, disease, and many, many brilliant individuals... the list is endless. History a puzzle that you work on for your entire life and could never complete, but the more pieces that drop into place, the more beautiful it becomes.
If it wasn't for the brilliant Scots you would be a lot poorer we Scots gave you James Watt,Telford,Bell,Fleming,James Clerk Maxwell,ATM,SAS,Scottish Regiments,Hugh Dowding,Haig,Thomas Cochrane the sea wolf and David Livingstone to name but a small amount of great names our nations contribution to Britain was immense.
Hi. Good reaction. The only problem is that the video keeps refering to invasion. The UK never invaded India. How could they? India had 10 times the population of the UK. UK was trading (along with other European countries) with India 80 years before the first troops arrivedin any numbers. They were there mainly to protect the traders that were there. Around 1800 ish, there were 250,000 troops in India. 200,000 of them were Indian troops. Most of the countries of the Empire asked to join the Commonwealth, which is a very successful trading group. It used to take around 6 months to sail to Bombay in the 1800's. It would simply not be possible to organise an invasion over that distance.
A nice reaction. People on the internet usually just view us as bad people when we are not. We were the first nation to industrialise but that doesn't mean that people in factories had it easy in Britain. Those boats we set sail in didn't just spawn out of the ocean, people had to build them. I'd recommend watching a video called 'Could You Survive as a Victorian Factory Worker? by the channel 'History Hit'.
Great reaction. A tip for the future. Great Briain isn't just England. It also includes Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland. Just saying England is going to have people kicking off at you & moaning. It's a VERY common mistake so don't worry just try to remember it in the future.
Much love from here in Great Britain & I hope everyone is having an amazing week
It won't be The English moaning,it will be the Home Nations who are,also/part of Great Britain:)
so you think the actual size of a country suggests how strong they are, rome was a village
The comment in the video about Britons continuing to invade Spain by the million every winter is all about Spain being a favourite place for a holiday every year for millions of Brits.
We connected the world.....in language and trade...... there are good points to our empire x
Hey @ Not An Industry Artist. I'm not just a Brit (a fierce British Lion) from outside London, England (some 25 Miles East; Basildon, Essex, 🇬🇧). I've only just got over, the devastation of my Maternal Grandparent's death's (during the Lethal Coronavirus Pandemic in late January 2021). Both lost in the same week. Love and hugs to you. Enormous hugs from a tiny nation.
You are to be commended for your desire to learn, but unforunately this video is a wrong choice, for it is full in misnomers and inaccuracies, and for starters has two errors in the title. Like very many Americans, you refer to ENGLAND/ENGLISH and INVASIONS which are incorrect. England may the Mother of Parliaments and English may be the most prominent language in the world. However, in the context of this video, it was NOT England who built the Empire, but the British - for Britain/Gt Britain/UK - is made up of four separate nations, namely England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (the latter formerly Ireland as a whole). The video refers to "Invasions" which were not necessarily warlike in nature, but merely for trading initiatives; you can have invasions of tourists, immigrants and locusts, but that doesn not make them all warlike.
Britain's armies, navy and air force have always been British, made up from members of all four nations. No Scotsman, Irishman or Welshman would respond favourably to being called English, and vice versa!! I'm quite sure you would not appreciate being referred-to as, say, Canadian or English, or any other nationality than what you are.The Germans have also consistantly referred to the British as English, as have the French and others.
The language we refer to as English, is actually an amalgamation of many different languages, including Old English, Latin, Norman French, Saxon, Norse, Indian, Chinese and others.
On its own, England has been just a small - if major - part of a greater union of nations, so when you say that England did this or that, what you really mean is usually what that union as a whole did. Regardless of where your parents came from, if you were born and raised in the US, you are an American. Your lineage and heritage may be from any place in the world, but you will always be an American. My lineage and heritage is Scottish, Welsh and English, but I was born in Northern Ireland, which makes me an Ulsterman (Ulster being the original name for NI).
This video you reacted to was produced by an American who did not do diligent research, made many errors, and clearly didn't know what he was talikng about. So be astute in what you watch!
Better if he watches Al Murray!...
@@margaretflounders8510 Although even Al Murray didn't name them all - but entirely a different purpose was intended. Unfortunately, too many armchair generals produce videos, their subject matter not fully researched, and (mainly because they're Americans trying to be clever and informative) make many gross errors. That's not to say that the Brits do any better, but the lure of easy RUclips payouts encourages all kinds of garbage output. Irritating!
I would love you to react to The incident at Bamber Bridge, trust me you will love it xxx
Has he done 'The Greatest Raid of all'?
@@jpw6893Im gonna look into both!
Should have a look at 13 hours to save Britain Germany first defeat in ww2
Britannia the GOAT
Notice you only have two likes because nothing about Britain is goat
@@RedRed-m5t That means, Greatest Of All Time, and is often used about Rock Bands, which we are also great at!
Perhaps the most effective weapon England then Britain had was its Navy. Being an island nation, we concentrated on developing better, bigger ships and John Harrison's chronometer, invented in 1731 meant that, for the first time it was possible to measure longitude accurately. Britain's navigational skills were, for a while, superior to those of the rest of Europe.
He never got paid!..I think that stinks!
Along with 'The Greatest Raid of All' which I think has already been recommended there's also 'The Life changing Journey of being selected as a Gurkha' by Forces TV. Both really good.
Much of the so called 'invasions' were really Trading deals - equally advantageous to both the British and the countries striking a deal.
Our Army was comparatively small, but our Royal Navy was the most powerful in the world.
The whole world had had slaves for thousands of years - probably since people formed in groups. People in England were not allowed to have slaves after 1086 when the, then King forbade it. There were people in England though who made profits from the slave trade, but when the British people understood in the late 1700's what was going on they protested until our Government passed an Act of Parliament in 1807 to forbid slavery. The Royal Navy sailed to Africa to begin their 'Crusade to stop Slavery' beginning with the West Coast of Africa. In 1870 when the slavers stopped coming they sailed around to the East Coast of Africa and started again, tackling the Arab Slave trade which had been going on for longer than a 1000 years. We then carried on the Crusade to cover the world. The last Royal Navy patrol of the East Coast of Africa, Red Sea and the Indian Ocean was in the 1970's and the final anti slave treaty was signed in 1981 by Mauritania. Many members of our Navy died to free Africans and many freed Africans, who joined the Royal Navy to free their brothers, also gave up their lives for the cause. Many British soldiers fought on African soil to stop the Arab Slave trade - like General Gordon of Khartoum and his soldiers.
The British people from the richest to the poorest contributed to the costs Britain paid to end Slavery - and the cost was enormous. The people of Britain agreed to pay higher taxes until the Loans Britain took out to end slavery were paid. The final payment was in 2015.
Many more of our 'invasions' came about because, at the time, we were the Policeman of the World and had to step in between warring peoples etc etc.
BTW the British passed another Act in Parliament forbidding slavery throughout its Empire in 1833.
yup after 1086 any slave that entered england with there master was instantly freed , when there feet touch british soil , because the king at the time said that british air is too pure and anyone who breathed in british air was instantly a free man , which is also why do didnt enforce the jim crow that america did cause we see everyone as equals no matter the skin colour
I think the word "invasion" was used a little loosely. Over a period of centuries, this happened mostly via sail boats whilst exploring the world!
The. BRitish developed the world’s strongest navy during the 18th century (1700s) and spent the next 2 hundred years consolidating their trading posts, the Empire was never planned or much wanted, it was necessary for trade.
We very very rarely lose a fight,that’s why the yanks love it and bring us in to THEIR colonising plans.
The quality of PERSERVERANCE got the British through.
It was our *Royal Navy* that made us so successful back in the day. It was the best in the world. PEACE! ☮️
Hi man, English guy here,kinda knew some but that blew my mind to,and as it's history,but you couldn't,now,bizarre,peace bro USA big love.thanks for your vid.
if you have haters then your doing a good job xx
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Try looking at any documentary covering the 100-year war between England and France.. That would be great place to start. Unfortunately most programs covering it are quite long for obvious reasons and may require a number of parts, the story if which is none the less fascinating.
when a german can relax finally...zzzzzhhh
Don't forget before we started invading anyone we were actually invaded 1st by Rome/Italy. The Norway & Sweden/ Vikings. So we learnt from others. Ghangas khan, Alexander the Great & Julius Caesar would of been proud of what we achieved lol.
Did you know, just 22 county's have not been invaded by the British. You can blame the Norman's, the tudors and Queen Victoria lot.. For most invasion and conquest. But some of the invasion were for a good reason. Many wasn't. I've seen this documentary many times with different blogs. I like to see people reactions. The main things people say is . " Britain is small.". Lol 😂.. Keep studying world history. You see how crazy the world has been for centuries and millenniums.. 👽👍
I love your perspectives on the videos that you watch xxx we're not all bad haha
Thank you!
Good to listen to your constructive comments on Nigeria and Africa.
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Same family crew. From Roman to Norman to English all backed by the church ( Pope) amazing how the church ( Vatican Rome) has held it’s position without having an army to maintain it’s discipline upon the populations. ? That’s correct ? The church chooses kings and kings rule the populations with military power. English tactics are Roman/ Norman/ Viking/ Saxon/ Celtic. ? With scientific engineering minds
The video being reacted to here is a classic example of a well-made, but deliberately misleading piece. Very broadly speaking I wouldn't dispute the list of places that English and British soldiers and sailors have fought (in fact it misses some out); but describing everything listed here as England or Britain invading and conquering a country is simplistic at best.
Let's take "invasions of France".
1076. William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy and King of England, tried to expand his territory on the Continent by invading the Dukedom of Brittany. The French King, Philip I opposed him and stopped him. While today Normandy and Brittany are part of the modern French state, in the 11th century they were dukedoms with their own laws, part of the violent patchwork of little states that the kings of France managed to glue together with blood and gunpowder during the late 1400s. To characterise William I's campaign in Brittany as "England invading France' is sheer nonsense. The same goes for the other "invasions" before the Hundred Years War. There is certainly more of a national character to the conflict by then, but it's still primarily a dynastic war.
The wars of Henry VIII against France are pretty much the only ones on the list which I would say can fairly be called English invasions of France. Henry was the king of a nation state, as is Francois I of France. Henry went to war with France three times, each time in alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and each time with various diplomatic casus belli, but, Henry, who still held Calais, very much clung to the old claim of the medieval English kings from Edward III onwards to the throne of France and would happily have taken territory permanently from the French crown and state had he been able. He was not.
An odd omission from the list is Elizabeth I’s interventions to help the French Protestants (Huguenots). In 1562 she attacked and took Le Havre, partly to help the Huguenots and partly with the idea of swapping it in return for Calais, which her half sister had lost in 1557. The Huguenots turned on her and Le Havre was retaken the next year. She sent troops to help the Protestant Henry IV from 1589 to 1592. They were there to help an ally, but as other instances where England or Britain did this have been listed as “invasions” of the country in question I can only assume it’s been left out due to the apparent ignorance of the video’s producers.
In the Anglo-French War of 1627 to 1629 Charles I sent ships to help the Huguenots against the French crown. In 1627 the Duke of Buckingham landed troops on the Ile de Ré, only to leave again three months later having achieved nothing. The attempt to aid the Huguenots under siege at La Rochelle in 1628 was no more successful. Again, intervention rather than invasion.
1658, Battle of the Dunes. This battle was between the Spanish and the French near Dunkirk. There were 6,000 English Commonwealth troops sent by Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell fighting FOR the French, and 2,000 exiled English and Irish Royalists fighting for the Spanish. The French won and the chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin, kept his promise to give Dunkirk to England’s Commonwealth Government in return for their assistance. It had been a Flemish speaking city of the Spanish Netherlands (more or less modern Belgium) and not French. Charles II sold it to France in 1662 for £320,000. It's hard to see how any of this adds up to an English invasion of France.
The wars of the late 17th, 18th and early 19th century certainly did involve, by this time British rather than English, armies invading French territory, but not with any view to the acquisition of that territory. In the 9 Years War and War of the Spanish Succession Britain was fighting with allies to limit the expansion of Louis XIV's France. The Austrian Succession and 7 Years wars were again wars of complex alliances. Britain was opposed to France in all of these wars and Britain staged raids on the French coast, such as the raid on Rochefort in 1757. There was some campaigning on French soil, but most of the fighting British troops were involved in on the Continent was in the Low Countries and Germany.
In the 1790s Britain again went to war, joining with a number of allies, to try to bring an end to the French Revolution and restore the Bourbon monarchy (War of the First Coalition). The aim was regime change not conquest. Part of this war was the invasion of Corsica, which has been included here separately to bump up the numbers. In 1794 Corsican leader Pasquale Paoli asked the British to help him expel the French, who had in invaded and conquered Corsica in 1769, this the British did. Corsica was a British client state as the Regno di Corsica for 16 months before the French took it back, this time for good (so far).
The Revolutionary wars against France became the Napoleonic wars, still with Britain ranged against France. Britain’s main contribution was in the fight to liberate Portugal and Spain, culminating with an army of British, Portuguese and Spanish troops invading southern France in 1813. Again, the aim was taking down Napoleon, not taking over France.
During many of these wars England, and later Britain, certainly did invade and conquer colonies held by France (and other European colonial powers) on other continents, but presumably in order to make a longer list and stir up hatred (but without any consistent logic) the makers of this video have decided to define these places as the nation states they are now. It’s true to say that Britain invaded and conquered French colonies in North America during the 7 Years War. To say it invaded Canada; and illustrating this with the map of modern Canada and the Canadian flag is disingenuous at best.
There, that’s nearly 1,000 words just dealing with “invasions” of France. As I said at the start, I don’t argue with the fact of the conflicts, nor do I say England and Britain were angels, only trying to help. I do argue with the simplistic characterisation of England and Britain stomping around invading everyone. England will have been a unified kingdom for 1100 years in 2025, Great Britain is over 300 years old and the UK over 200 hundred. Our history is complex and Britain’s Empire was hugely successful, becoming very large indeed, her interests drew her into conflicts in a bewildering range of places. To draw the childish cartoon of a world full of helpless, harmless children just waiting for the Brits to come to beat them up and nick their countries does as much disservice to the rest of the world as it does to Britain.
. . . some of these ‘invasions listed’ were actually UK going to the aid of other countries. We didn’t invade Germany, we fought to stop them taking over Europe. The word ‘invaded’ is being very loosely used here. We fought many wars but they were NOT invasions. Some of these listed were our armies sent as part of NATO to help other countries. Let’s not forget the Dutch (Dutch East Indies), the French invading Canada) (UK) & many others, The Spanish- most of South America, all over the world, the Portuguese went all over the world, The Romans invaded UK & enslaved the local population, others who invaded were the Vikings, the Normans, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and on & on. The Pope decided that most of the world was his. This has some truth but a lot of it is Wars not invasions.
You've gained a subscriber 😅 it's so rare to find an educated American on here... keep up the good work brother
There's still slavery going on in Africa. They say around 20,000 people are still in slavery now over there.
Funny what they called "invaded". In the Netherlandfs they tried but not succeeded. In Belgium... There was no Belgium at that time. We, the Dutch, installed a king in England so The Netherlands totally invaded those English bastards!
It’s obvious you love history.it’s a wonderful informative journey.there is a big world out there.enjoy the journey
i come from the city of the person who abolished slavery, william wilberforce...no doubt as a nation we did absolutely horrendous things, but during them days everyone was, Portugal gets away with a lot...it was what it is, it's disgusting but again, that's just what it was...and we also cannot dismiss what african people did with their own people during these times, and still do. nobody is clean.
Royal navy pal that's how we did it best navy in the world and mostly helped countries out with earning too mate 🏴
what you have to understand is britain spent many a year being invaded by the romans the anglos, saxons , vikings etc over a 1000 years of it crazy huh so we learnt how to fight and at somepoint we were going to say enough is a enough its our turn
The UK had the biggest navy in the world which made them so powerful.
As well as having a disciplined army, the supremacy of the navy meant we could pop up all over the place almost unopposed!
back then our power came from making sure we ruled the seas with our navy as well as a good sized army
we built better boats and had intimidating navy crews lol, you should watch "how britain ended world slavery"
Modern day Britain had been through around 2-3 millenia of non-stop internal conflict and war and multiple invasions. They knew war. Add in the fact it is an island with bad seas the proficiency of ship-building, and navigational skills. They could sail anywhere before a lot of others could. You gather more intel than anyone else.
We banned slavery in England in the tenth century we also single handily decided to try and stop slavery worldwide against every other country opinions 😣 until we eventually forced others to agree all while taking over the world at the same time 😂🇬🇧
Tiny little country ...rest of the world should be embarrassed
England never invaded the Netherlands, but a Dutch was king in Engeland!🤣😂
We're Lions in England the Welsh are Dragons classing us as Dragons is kind of an insult 😂😂😂😆
I understand sir! White uk bricklayer👍
by the time Britian took africa the atlantic slave trade had already ended and it was the british that put an end to the slave trade.
Zulu - great film 💫😎🏴
The Empire was a pub crawl that got out of hand
English civil war freedom
You’re a good RUclipsr you seem clever
our navy was huge , and the source of success
No Great Britain not England 🇬🇧
Its all down to iur Navy.
You need to check out England's crusade against slavery,
Britains crusade.
We only tried to help
It's not England, It's Britain or the UK lol.
Not prior to 1707
@@Beefy5039 So prior to 1707 England invaded every country that was to become part of the British Empire without the help of the Scots,Irish and Welsh? i don't think so.
@@williammackenzie6115 Was that what I said?
Person a " it's not England it's Britain"
Me : - Not prior to 1707 it wasn't..
Nope mention of that of which you accuse me. Britain didn't become Britain until 1707, prior to that it was England.
@@Beefy5039 My apologies.England started the colonies in America and after the the union of our nations we went on to become the largest empire in history but i wish people commenting on the empire would stop using just England to represent the empire Scotland's contribution in all areas of empire building was immense.
@@williammackenzie6115 No issues at all, I'm a Geordie, geographically historically and probably genetically I'm closer to the Border / Lowland Scots than ill ever be to what people think of as English..
Still English tho 😉🏴
to be fair keep in mind the american slave trade was where slavery really became what 'we' know it as today and its definitely different to historic slavery. Chattel slavery was more when the concepts of black v white were established in america predominantly, and africans were dehumanized and treated like livestock. Its slightly different elsewhere in the world, like in europe we have racism and descrimination issues with people americans would just call 'white' but to us were distinct different ethnic groups and although many europeans were enslaved just like the rest of the world, like i said the difference is american chattel slavery really pushed the mindset of black v white, livestock for trade etc.
Truth! Great breakdown.
My cousin Helen (My mother's niece) lives outside Cadiz in Spain. Name a place and chances are (The 🏴 or Britain has been there). There's always been a fierce animosity between Britain and 🇫🇷, sometimes with the 🇳🇱 and also scraps with 🇪🇸. But not 🇵🇹 (Portugal have been our oldest Ally). Queen Elizabeth II Rest In Peace
In terms of tactics, there are basically 3 main categories of invasions here:
1. Colonies - countries which we invaded but which had very small populations and/or were very far behind the UK technologically and so couldn't put up much of a fight;
2. Industrial advantage - countries which might have been much bigger than Britain but which we could defeat because we industrialised earlier, so that includes places like Russia, China, and Turkey;
3. Invasions by the British Empire - i.e. countries we could beat because, by the time we fought them, we were already a huge empire and not a plucky little island anymore.
Very few of the fights were "fair fights", although with some notable exceptions. Usually when we were in a war against a peer adversary we would try to form alliances and fight as part of a broader coalition. It's worked very well for us in the past!
The British didn't mainly use force to create the British Empire. They created it by economic means. The jewel in the crown of the Empire was the Indian sub-continent. This became part of the British Empire through trade. It was run by the East Indian Company who mainly did deals with leaders of the Indian states and were later allowed to create their own armies mad up of locally recruited members. It wasn't until the Mutiny in 1857 did the British government take over and run the country directly.
I dont think the kings and leaders of 18th Century Africa were any more venal and corrupt than many of their European counterparts. Europe just happened to hit a particular technological and economic peak at a time when Africa was going through a period of fracture and trouble, and therefore more vulnerable to the kind of force Europe had to bring. I don't know if the African leaders of that time would have been as willing to play that field if they had known what would come of that - but I don;t know how it could even have been predicted it was an unprecedented form of colonialism and the eventual scale of the slave trade dwarfed anything that had come before it, and was founded on such a fundamentally different world view to pretty much any other slave trade they would have experienced.
Europeans also sold each other into slavery - we just didn't think of it like that because we think of ourselves as unique nations and ethnicities. It is unfortunate that the diversity of peoples and cultures in the African continent got blended together into a single category in the wake of European colonialism and the accompanying race 'science' that underpinned it.
You speak with sense! 🤜🤛
The main weapon was money, and offers of trade, a bit like the USA today
The British army very rarely had to fight, the navy could subdue the coastal cities and force terms on the local rulers.
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I have just subscribed. I love your love for my country. Keep up the good work 👍
i love your content do you like comedians cus we a
have good comedians like michael mcentire and lee evans at the 02 and jack whitehall
Britain was a very powerful country back then with our navy which at the time was far superior but I do agree with you all this needs to end look at what we are doing to our planet,well said 👏👏
this is why england done celebrate any independence days that would basically have us having holidays every month or mutliple times a month
We are small but even at that time we was one of the most advanced countries in the world along with the largest navy.
Yee Haa 😂🇬🇧
Not bad for a small country.
With India we made the women have more rights and gave them a better life most things we use daily was invented by the British so we made so many peoples lives better and still are
Gotta speak on my maternal side yo, 😂 like your European on the other, nope!
Do a reaction on what have the basterd brits done for us watch and learn sir do hope you enjoy