Arguable. When you consider sheer land mass covered, the grip of the Roman Caesar's far eclipsed that of Victoria's. Not that Victoria herself had anything whatsoever to do with it beyond having her name to the empire. Victoria did have children in most of the royal houses of Europe, but she did not reign there as the Roman Caesars did through their regional governors. The Romans also held their power and dominion for much longer than the BE did too - in no small part through subjugating the local populations and conscripting them into service of the various Roman legions. It is also often missed that Roman power and expansion across Europe began long before the rise of Julius Caesar during the age of the Roman Republic Genghis Khan's rise to power was truly incredible, but his Khanate dynasty was somewhat short lived due to both infighting and attempting to hold the huge area of China which is a fools errand without the will of the people behind you. Napoleon's grip on power was even more fleeting still and did not survive his lifetime and his forces were soundly driven back from Russia, just as the German Nazi's were over a century later. Alexander's rise was similarly titanic but worse even than Genghis Khan's having left no legitimate heirs which left his great empire to be broken up among his generals - had this not happened then Rome would likely never have risen to the heights it did at all.
An Irish woman I knew said that the English had an empire so they could loose at cricket. She also once explained to a Kiwi that the reason the Irish did not have the best rugby team in the world was because real men play Hurling.
I genuinely contribute our success as being great conquestors down to the fact that our heritage and blood as come from the BEST the planet could offer. I mean just look at those three and what they achieved at the time. Is it really a surprise that Britain became so great at what it did? The vikings traveled the globe, discovering and settling in far our reach places, not because they had too but because they could. Rome set up one of the greatest empires to have existed, again they didn't always do conquest because they had to but because they wanted too. The normans are just vikings/hybrid vikings.
@Jason Statham When the Anglo-Saxons eventually got their chance to face the invading Vikings, it annihilated them. The death of Ēadƿeard Andettere in 1066 was the beginning of the end for the Vikings, even if they defeated Harold Godwinson, they would of eventually had to face William the Bastard.
@Jason Statham yes they ruled for 200 years over a primitive land in the dark ages of ancient Britain, the Romans ruled over Britain for 400 years, the Saxons ruled for 500 years, and the Normans almost one thousand years, the British ruled virtually the whole WORLD for 300 years.
@Jason Statham The Vikings never ruled England for 200 years, don't know where you got that from. They failed to conquer Wessex, due to Alfred the Great. Also they never fully conquered Mercia or Northumbria. Alfreds son and grandson then conquered the other Kingdoms which had been ruled by Vikings for a number of decades at most. At which point England became whole for the first time since the Romans the left. Only during the 19 year reign of King Cnut (and I guess briefly under his father and sons, but them less than 10 years) was England ruled by a Dane. For the vast majority of 927-1066, England was ruled by an Anglo-Saxon. The Vikings ruled parts of England (half of Northumbria and Mercia, and whole of East Anglia) from roughly 877-927 (they lost Mercia in 911 and East Anglia in 918 with Northumbria the last to fall in 927). So 50 years and even then only about a third of England was under their control (80 including Cnut and his sons).
Technically America is Britain. Every countries that speak English like Canada, New Zealand, Australia etc are what they are today because Britain invaded and British people settled there.
Here’s a fact: after Christmas, the most celebrated holiday in the world is independence from Britain. On average, every 7 days someone somewhere around the world celebrates independence from Britain. That’s mad
and they do so with freedom, railways, elected governments and a place in the modern world. Its not all about taking, there was a hell of a lot these countries (mostly) were left with, and which they still benefit from today.
@@itwoznotme True but you've got to remember most of the colonies were run in order to make money (except for those that were just around so we could have global naval bases) so while they were developed by British investment the empire took more then it gave.
"Stop trying to take credit" - I'm literally English. Britain had a big empire, yes. All humans have invaded another at some point or another though, even small tribes, such as native Americans, would fight each over land.
@Angus Hanna also the only one to give its colonies etc independence without massive bloodshed and treated its citizens better mainly cause of our fuck up in the usa
@@ashenone3050 hence why i said founded. Immigration to North America was almost exclusively north Western European for the majority of its history. The Poles and Italians were quite late, as was the majority of Irish immigration.
It is also unironically why the vast majority of people around the world watching this are able to understand you whilst watching it. Yourself included.
For which I'm very thankful. Could have been founded as a Spanish speaking colony thanks to Spain or be talking we we and eating baguettes thanks to the French. I'm glad things started the way they did here as far as the country responsible for starting us off.
@@THOMASCOLTON1 That's a myth, the teeth thing. The British have healthier teeth than the Yanks, on average, for the same reason we have healthier people in general.
@@shadowraven4221 The “American English” we know and use today in an American accent first started out as an “England English” accent. According to a linguist at the Smithsonian, Americans began putting their own spin on English pronunciations
Just for a laugh, without even going there, the UK invented Belgium out of thin air in 1837, just to annoy the Netherlands, Germany and France - and also Austria who previously owned the area.
@Swords Chant lol I’m assuming we invaded you at some point and your bitter, or maybe you are a European guy who’s pissed we aren’t the second biggest contributor to your country anymore stiff upper lip old chap
@Swords Chant the romans took their ball and went home, we are viking, the viking way was to invade integrate and vanish, and we were holding off the Nazis , the yanks only helped re taking europe, 41-44 they were getting ready while we held off the nazis
@@fizzylovesjam5378 um... I don’t think that’s what they meant... I think they were just emphasising the fact how many countries the Brits took over (India being one of them), since that’s what this video is about ....
I was touring france and went to one of their military museums. a guide was showing the group around exhibits relating to times around the napoleonic wars. He pointed out Spanish, German, Dutch, Austrian, captured flags, armour and cannon from numerous battles. He was asked if there were any English items. To which he replied, " Sadly, no". Kind of sums thing up!
Maybe we visited the same museum, I must say the chap I asked where do you keep all the white flags used to surrender to the English was not very polite.
i thought napoleon fought only the british twice ( siege of toulon, victory, waterloo, defeat), all the rest was against the mainland coalition and ottomans..so no surprise there are no english item...they were just 3rd tier grades.
Yet, the Normans conquered England, and the French Plantagenets also ruled it, with "English" kings, some born in France and others also speaking French. The forces of England were defeated in France so that the rulers of England finally lost the last territory in France- Calais- in the reign of Mary I. The English learn in school of victories in France, not defeats.
@@mizofanIndeed the Normans did conquer England. Also true that English forces were eventually removed from France. Although i am unclear as to why you brought that to the discussion. I have to assume you did not go to school in England or you had a poor history teacher. In school history classes i was taught about the victories and defeats. There were i recall questions about both in later exams.
So, I was on a language & orientation course in Finland a few years ago. It happened to be their independence day. Our assignment that week was to prepare a short talk, with visual aids, about when our independence day is, & how we celebrate. When it was my turn, I pinned up a picture of the Union Flag, & just said; 'We don't have an independence day. We are the reason that you all have one.'
This is why we'll never win the Eurovision song contest or the world cup because we've invaded that many countries it's there way of getting there own back at us lol
It's very true. We watch this video and say we're proud to be British because this video shows how powerful a small island was but you then have to think that we went around the globe slaughtering people, even innocent people. And we created pow camps similar to the nazi camps.
@@MaulerMyers, Scotland wasn't exactly innocent on that front. Scotland came cap in hand to England after her own failed venture into colonialism. People in Scotland (& Wales) like to pretend they're the victims, where in truth they were very much accomplices.
@@abdirahmanabdi9050 This is true, but not only did we abolish slavery, we assembled a fleet specifically for freeing and then sinking slave ships, whilst fighting and two front war and in desperate need of the allies, we pressured them into either restricting or abolishing slavery (The US restricted only lol), but the rest abolished it) So uhh, we've done some horrid shit in the past but I am proud of this
Actually we are not, we are bigger then most, for many bigger then 2 put together, only Alaska and Texas are bigger I think, maybe California, although its a similar size. Its just on maps the world gets stretched and warped due to it being a globe and all, a good site is The True Size of, you would be surprised at many countries size compared to others, Greenland is surprisingly small and Russia is only a little bigger then the US
A simplistic view of the world and nation-states, which Americans use too much. For example, the US uses California as being more richer and powerful than the UK, but it misses many factors that mitigate the assertion. What are they? HIstory, longevity, the economy, the currency, soft power, the military, and diplomacy. Size of the area of the state is not important if that is the case Russia but the top power now and then China. Also, the size of the population is not that important, though it can be. Aka the EU and US, both populations are highly educated and are utilized in a certain way to generate wealth. The EU has a massive advantage here due to it being more equal than the US. The England or latter on the UK used what they had to very good advantage - meaning they used the navy to dominate, which boosted the economy and it snowballed.
My Bad, Looking things up yes there are about 10 states larger in square miles of land area, although most of those are only a little bigger. I think I got confused with Alaska and Texas being more than twice as large, not just larger. Still the general point stands that we are in fact larger then most American states and not smaller then most. Also if you count overseas territories not just mainland Britain we jump up ahead of Wyoming and Oregon
@@danjames5552 it isn't about riches, it's about military power, which South Korea is stronger than us, we are 8th place and dropping, Social issues, external issues, some of the countries under the crown are leaving, the pound is falling, slowly but still slowly, it's Pax Americana, we can't go on a head to head battle with the USA.
We do like to travel,, especially for a good holiday.. Lol.. The reason We invaded France so much is simple,, the French have always been great at hosting invasions ..
Interesting fact for you. Statistically France is considered the most successful military in Europe. I know, I know...but when you think that WW1 + WW were considered victories you can see how rigged it is.
As Al Murray said, taxes were brought in to fund the war against the French and were still paying taxes so why dont we start another fight against them lol
@@mwdyceffylgwaith yep, but the difference is we got invaded and conquered by a few different peoples over the centuries. The romans, saxons and the normans invaded quite successfully. The vikings ended up staying they liked it so much😂 (that’s why our counties have such odd names like Wessex, Sussex, Essex and Norfolk they were named by the vikings from the point they settled).
@@mwdyceffylgwaith Modern day 'France' only invaded England three times, an ill fated attempt in 1545 and again ill fated on 18 Feb 1778. The last attempt on the shores at Fishguard was actually Wales so technically not England, and yes they got their arses slapped there as well. Normans still do not consider themselves French, so that doesn't count, also carried out when England as a country was not united. Sanctimonious enough for you? And I'm not even English.
The Falkland Islands were British to begin with. The French occupied them for a time when Britain's backvwas turned, but we reclaimed them later. Argentina didn't even exist as a country then. It was ruled by Spain.
@@drwhatson well technically the French got there first but it doesn't count as an invasion as we didn't force are will on the natives seeing as the island had no native and no just because someone got there first doesn't make them native. Plus the French and Spanish recognise the British claim later on. The Argentines are just pissy because they were late to the game.
It's why when Americans go on about how powerful and great they are. The British empire just sits in the corner with the Romans, Greeks and Egyptians laughing.
At the time Britain was committed to fighting Napoleon. A far superior fighting force indeed. So in reality we were already busy and had to put our strongest forces in France.
Americans have still failed to beat countries of people that still wipe their arse with their hands. Viatnam - failed Iraq - failed North Korea - still mocks you Iran - doesn't listen Iraq a second time - fail Afghanistan - fail The British took back the falklands in the 80s Stopped Germany in 40s and for the small island we are, pack the biggest punch in the world.
Davey Boyd I think the idea was to have a peace treaty with chile while they fended the British off and make an example of us before they invaded Chile but I can’t remember the ins and outs of it, you’re probably right
Egyptian: "We are the greatest empire to have existed." Macedonian: "No, we are." Roman: "I think you'll find we were the most far reaching and influential." The Brit sipping tea in the corner: "How quaint."
The British empire the biggest empire in human history bigger then the Roman the Greek and any one else's for size for conquering for taking over for planting the flag so every county has invaded has British blood line in them some where.
1:21 " *Ireland was the first target of British conquest ,it was invaded as early in 1169* " Actually no , *Wales* was England's first colony , Chepstow castle which stands on the Welsh border was built in 1067 - a full century before the invasion of Ireland . With the ensuing centuries and endemic warfare between the English and the Welsh ,Wales finally submitted and subsequently became England's first colony . The narrative of the documentary often interchanges the terms 'England' and 'Britain' - an all to common mistake...
Sometimes you just get an overwhelming feeling deep down as an Englishman where one too many rainy days drives you to pure madness and you have to Invade somewhere, anywhere immediately.
Great Britain shaped the modern world. It's said that if you knock an English man down he will get up and say "sorry". If you knock him down again he'll get up and flatten you.
@Swords Chant Don't be salty. It can be humbling knowing we almost certainly kicked the crap out of you at one time or another, then rebuilt your godforsaken cesspit and turned it into a modern first world nation it may or may not be today.
Even though im a Indian, but born in the UK and raised there, so technically considered BRITISH... this brings tears to my eyes... how such a small country could dominate the world with its thinking and technology...
Part if it was the waters surround our nation, Its some of the most dangerous waters in the world so sailors had to be tough and well trained while the ships themselves had to be well built. The Empire was built on the back of the navy.
Now you can see why us Brits will always dispute the US's claim to be the greatest nation on the planet, 🤣. Not bad for a pissy little rock on the eastern side of the Atlantic. Even for a brit that was quite an eye opener, my reaction was similar to yours lol
come on the yanks can never claim to be the "greatest" nation fuck me they can't even get their own house in order without us let alone fight a war on their own
Sure they can. They just have to say '' you had all of this at different points in history and now you're just a pissy little rock, way to fuck that up ''.
@@dzello Don't make us creep up that river and burn down your White house again (to be fair, you guys should welcome that at this point after that total abortion of an election you just had)
Tyring to explain to Americans that Britain had a lot of oversea territory to control so they couldn't focus much of their military strength during the American war of independence. This video really shows it!
In fairness the "Invasion" of Belgium in 1914 was in response to the Germans invading and Britain had guaranteed Belgian neutrality. The invasion was to very much to protect Belgium.
I remember my Grandad telling me he went on a bender once in Rotherhithe to celebrate a Millwall promotion. By the time he was sober, he'd woken up in Mombasa, having invaded most of the Middle East and Asia, as well as annexing several previously independent states for the British Empire. Never could hold his beer my old Grandad.
@@spaceoddity3958 He's saying English is the most spoken language if you include native and non-native speakers. So if you include people who speak English as a second language it's the most spoken :)
The British is an Island Nation, we mastered Naval warfare, land warfare, desert warfare, jungle warfare, urban warfare, Ariel warfare, weaponry and Infantry. we travelled all over the globe and mostly Triumphed. Our Legacy is the British Commonwealth, 54 Nations who The Queen is their leader. 2.4 Billion People worldwide. 54 nations who nowadays we put help. Not bad for a small country. Im Proud to be British.
"Ariel warfare". Soap powder warfare? That's a Bold statement Oh you mean "Aerial" warfare...my mistake! EDIT: We're also pretty good at irony & hilarious puns.
People have to remember that invading other countries was pretty normal throughout history. Britain was just very good at it. Uniquely successful rather than uniquely evil.
there are still many racist maps, enlarging Uk, shrinking Africa and various countries, the Northen hemisphere extended, Southern shrunk, with Greenland far bigger than Australia- and schools and education still mislead children..
@@cooldude4643 That's a new one on me, but some interesting info on it on RUclips. I am aware of some strange account of a US invasion during the US War of Independence by one ship. They landed but got drunk in a local tavern or something like that and failed.
@@andrewdking if you want to stop a british invasion in it's tracks just put a bed and breakfast that serves tea and biscuits and public houses between you and what you are defending.
@@123Andersonev Would literally work. It's why we never invaded Those Eastern European states.... Notice all the countries with world-class beer we never managed to get out the pubs to invade. 🍻😂 Smart move by the Czechs, Polish etc. If they had good booze to share, we leave them be. Look at the video again, it's so true 😂
There is a comedian Al Murrey who does a set about how Britain has beaten every nation on earth in a war and let the crowd call out countries and explains how and in what war with a funny twist of course.
Well what do you want us to do invade europe and france over fish? The whole point in the empire and democracy is peace. The uk played a major part in the peace the world lives in today. If china or russia had it there way the world would be doomed
@@scottjohnson3389 First I want you to learn how to take a glib comment at face value, it's a useful skill which can save you much undue conflict especially online where text carries a tone that the reader assigns to it, unlike real speech. Maybe I've even just fallen victim to that, the internet is made for arguments. Secondly if I did have to turn this into a serious comment, UK is no longer a trade empire but a service hub. The fishing industry is worth less than 0.05% of the UK's GDP. Spending so much time and energy in the farcical negotiations on this, rather than aligning our financial services which constitute 7% of the UK's GDP, is indicative of the ineptitude of the government whom we've just delegated full control. Point 3... we're all going down with the ship. Grab yourself a shot glass and drink every time you hear "one last push" leave the lips of the luddites in Number 10.
Most countries have been endlessly invaded, it is how countries become countries. UK has been invaded successively for 2000 years. UK didn’t invade most world countries, it inherited lands by virtue of other wars. The British empire wasn’t based upon invasions, it was based upon trade by private companies ie. East India Company & the administration of say India was by invitation of the warring Indian tribes of who wanted a natural third party to keep the peace.
It's important to remember that for much of history, in less enlightened times, the way of life dictated aggressive conquest. The UK filled that void more than most countries perhaps, but it's not something modern British people should be ashamed of. We operate within the framework of our current norms. Besides, most countries have a very similar past - the UK just did it more efficiently.
Facts, I feel like people think we're a small country of influence, but we still have quite a bit of influence in other things, we also still have a monarchy of which is pretty dope, and traditional things which gives some pride of being British, but I think we're going through some teething problems with no being an Empire, and the fact our Navy is a shadow of its former self in terms of size.
There are a lot of people who don't realize that that was the way the world worked for thousands of years...one group invaded another group, conquered them, either massacred, assimilated, or forced them to move and took their land. I point that out to people who whine about how the US was founded. When they claim that America is bad because Europeans invaded, conquered, wiped out the indigenous people, and took their land, I point out that that was how every nation in the Americas was founded, there are millions of indigenous people in the US, the US has roughly the same percentage of indigenous people as every other nation in the Americas, and the indigenous people in every nation in the Americas except 2 are relegated to a small portion of the country...Bolivia has an indigenous majority and the indigenous people were actually wiped out in Argentina. I also point out that there are several nations in Asia that were founded just like the US but it was Asians who invaded, conquered, and took the land from the indigenous people.
The UK had the best navy of that era which made it easy to invade other countries. That being said there seems to be lots of finger pointing at the minute, so what you need to remember is that 1. We are not our ancestors 2. The people of the UK are not the government who invaded countries 3. Your politicians are just as bad as ours.
The reason he used "invade" Italy in WWII is because the Italians faught with the Axis powers. They surrendered twice, hence the term Italian rifle for sale, never fired but dropped twice.
Horatio Nelson said to his troops: "Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil."
@@jimthedadman8928 Born in London, raised in Britain, speaks English as a first language. Why care about her ethnicity? You’re not British because of your ethnicity. Besides, the English are a Germanic people anyway. Not to mention the fact that she’s a direct descendent of Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror.
@@AlexanderDiviFilius not totally we are mixed with Celtic, Viking & Normans who ineffectively are vikings anyway. I think because being an island and the fact it was always being invaded the people of the whole island just knew how to fight to survive and then that skill n experience then you start looking outwards and do on to others. Crazy though.
U mean taking advantage of other countries ,being greedy,unfair,imposing ur language and culture and in some cases slaughtering native people if the land u have invaded and leaving countries like India/Pakistan and Ireland/Northern Ireland in shambles because hey the British people are just superior or better then everyone else in their eyes ? Or more like ignorant bullies throughout the centuries. (No offense meant to u directly or any other British people, I have friends that are British but I myself anyway wouldn't be proud of something like that ,but that's just me)
@@zaclynch7265 Actually we left pakistan and india in better states than they were when we arrived but okay lol. Spit on the heritage and history of the empire all you like, but you can’t take away from the fact that it actually abolished slavery in 1/3 of the entire world and those that continued slavery were either invaded or we stopped trading with them. The empire committed many attrocities for sure but without it we would be in a far less advanced and modernised world.
@@zaclynch7265 Food for thought: It is the only empire to have voluntarily disassembled itself and returned sovereignty to its member states. 54 nations decided they were so brutalised by the culture of Empire that they signed up to an international club headed by the monarch of their aggressor. For the people, sometimes the foreign despot kicks you less hard than the local one. History pre 1900 is one long succession of angry men with lots of metal hitting other men until they handed over their things, and the British were very good at it: but at previous points in history it was right and honorable to kill and die for your tribe, your god, your king, your country (delete as appropriate depending on century). Should we take pride in our history being full of blood-covered bastards? Probably not.. Should we take pride in the fact that 54 nations decided that of all the bloody bastards to have been conquered by, they'd like to join the club hosted and run by the British and their ex imperial monarchy? Yes, a little.
Not just England but the whole island of Britannia. Scottish/welsh and Irish soldiers all played a vital role in creating the biggest empire the world has ever seen
@@0xmoo That’s probably no longer the case. I predict in 50 years time Ireland will be united and Scotland will leave the union. Wales I’m not entirely sure
@@0xmoo No I meant Northern Ireland will join the Republic of Ireland. Sein fein is now the largest party in Northern Ireland however the loyalist population will definitely retaliate if that happens. I know Scotland voted to stay in the union but I’ve just got that feeling they will inevitably leave
England and Britain aren't the same thing: some of these were English invasions and then after the Act of Union in 1707 created Great Britain you could say they are British. Don't forget the English invaded Wales and Scotland too - but Scotland also invaded England quite a few times.
@First Name they didn't consider themselves English until the 1400's, which is the first time after 1066 that England had a King that could speak English, and the British before 1707 were exclusively the Celtic people's
From 43AD to 1066AD we had a crash course in being on the receiving end of multiple invasions so when we decided to invade people we knew how to di it right.
Would that be the incident during the Napoleonic Wars when one small town on the South coast of England was technically invaded by Napoleon's army for about 4 hours (after which the ship full of French soldiers got bored and left)?
The French invasion bit was in Wales and it was pretty much a penal unit sent it to cause a distraction to head off some of your armed forces to make it easier for the main French force to push in but they ended up surrendering to a bunch of women and farmers who had only gone to find out what the French looked like, and because they wearing red outfits the unit thought they were actual soldiers
@Chayse Larsson China doesn’t have the logistic capabilities to deploy its forces to Europe, the only countries with more advanced military’s are the US, China, Russia and possibly France. China and the US are a given obviously because of their economy and population. The rest are up for debate and the Uk produces the best soldiers in the world has had for hundreds of years. You can keep talking shit under your umbrella of an overfunded military
@@stevenmalarkey9391 you’re right but actually most of the accomplishments were actually English. We say British because we include the other countries that make up our culture, economy and way of life so really you’ve just replied to imply that you know the that the UK is a sovereign state 😂
Points to note, some times a French royal family member would leave France after being chased out and subsequently return with a British army to regain control, it would go down as a British invasion on France but was technically by a French family
I think he tried to do it within a 15 min video. Try and fit in all the countries the Brits have invaded or pissed off, and we will be here for a couple of days! I couldn't bare it!!
"The sun never sets on the British Empire" was not used metaphorically. It simply means that the empire stretched so far around the globe that some part of it was always in daytime.
seafaring island people who built the best navy is what made them so powerful lot of roman, viking and saxon blood running through the veins of the islands inhabitants, making them wanna go out and conquer shit lol
@@crikeychief8582 I propose another invasion of France for old times sake and to grab ahold of your everyday frenchman and give him a bloody good rollicking.
I thought that was the Japanese, there's this sort of dialect thing they have where they basically have pet names for countries. It's something to do with how the alphabets translate
We do love a bit of an invasion, you stick us on a ferry and genetically, we think we are invading somewhere! We even bring our own tea bags just to make our invasion a bit more civilized, someone posted about France, well.....it kind of is a hobby, but we have stopped doing that as they don't put up a fight really :)
Indeed. The Scots and English parliaments joined in 1707 after the Scots bankrupted themselves trying to establish wee empire-ette in Central America, but the mosquitos and the Spanish forced them out.
@@kmcd3020 Ireland and more specifically N.I. is run by GB. Even if they never accept it. We are the motorbike. They are the sidecar. They're going nowhere. Without us
@@jameswatsonatheistgamer Northern Ireland yes , don't be an idiot and include the Republic , and the English can hardly run themselves, Brexit was a disaster and Boris is the leader. Wonderful arrogance indeed.
He missed two right from the start... Wales and Scotland - been at those ongoing before and after the Irish. We were still having Scottish uprisings after the US war of independence.
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The France thing, it’s more of a hobby really.
Gives us something to do when we're bored....
Hahaha
Hobby? ... I'd say more of a sport .... like American-baiting .... it's just so much fun!
D-Day Normandy invasions was like a last hurrah, planned out with the kids joining in to show em what it's like.
Lmao what a shit hobby considering England lost most of its wars against France
I’ll be honest, as a Brit, I’m fairly disappointed at all the stuff we missed
Could have taken over the world amiright? Smh
Hoàng Anh easily....
Everyone wants to be all cool and *'independent'* these days 🥱
Only 22 got to leave some, who wants the Vatican.?
I think we ran out of coloured pencils
No we don't like wine that much. We just can't stand the French.
they fly the white flag high 😂
What they said 😁👆
I do love a bit of tea and crumpets in the morning
Yeah us brits fucking hate the frogs
10 points to any brit who can explain why they "don't like the french"
Alexander, Caesar, Gengis Khan, Napoleon: I'm going to lead the biggest empire ever!
Queen Victoria: Hold my tea
Love this 😅
Arguable.
When you consider sheer land mass covered, the grip of the Roman Caesar's far eclipsed that of Victoria's.
Not that Victoria herself had anything whatsoever to do with it beyond having her name to the empire.
Victoria did have children in most of the royal houses of Europe, but she did not reign there as the Roman Caesars did through their regional governors.
The Romans also held their power and dominion for much longer than the BE did too - in no small part through subjugating the local populations and conscripting them into service of the various Roman legions.
It is also often missed that Roman power and expansion across Europe began long before the rise of Julius Caesar during the age of the Roman Republic
Genghis Khan's rise to power was truly incredible, but his Khanate dynasty was somewhat short lived due to both infighting and attempting to hold the huge area of China which is a fools errand without the will of the people behind you.
Napoleon's grip on power was even more fleeting still and did not survive his lifetime and his forces were soundly driven back from Russia, just as the German Nazi's were over a century later.
Alexander's rise was similarly titanic but worse even than Genghis Khan's having left no legitimate heirs which left his great empire to be broken up among his generals - had this not happened then Rome would likely never have risen to the heights it did at all.
@@mnomadvfx rubbish,.
@@mnomadvfx Arguing against every historian in history & every historical fact there is, is not a very bright idea...
British Empire was the last and the greatest ever. I doubt their will ever be Empires like that again, technology changed everything.
“Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find the flag of England.”
- Napoleon, July 1815, on his surrender to the Royal Navy
Once we took the Spanish out of the naval game, it was all ours. "Sons of the Waves," after all.
No the flag of Great Britain 🇬🇧
1) we needed to secure tea
2) we don't want to learn another language
3) nope that pretty much sums it up
Plus, they have tasty forrin foods and the lovely shiny things! 🤩✨
Well... They *had* lots of shiny things!
The rain
An Irish woman I knew said that the English had an empire so they could loose at cricket. She also once explained to a Kiwi that the reason the Irish did not have the best rugby team in the world was because real men play Hurling.
And also wanted to loot all resources and killing millions
Don’t forget they invaded us first. Romans, Vikings, Norman’s, they all taught us how to do it 😂😂😂
I genuinely contribute our success as being great conquestors down to the fact that our heritage and blood as come from the BEST the planet could offer. I mean just look at those three and what they achieved at the time. Is it really a surprise that Britain became so great at what it did? The vikings traveled the globe, discovering and settling in far our reach places, not because they had too but because they could. Rome set up one of the greatest empires to have existed, again they didn't always do conquest because they had to but because they wanted too. The normans are just vikings/hybrid vikings.
100%
@Jason Statham When the Anglo-Saxons eventually got their chance to face the invading Vikings, it annihilated them. The death of Ēadƿeard Andettere in 1066 was the beginning of the end for the Vikings, even if they defeated Harold Godwinson, they would of eventually had to face William the Bastard.
@Jason Statham yes they ruled for 200 years over a primitive land in the dark ages of ancient Britain, the Romans ruled over Britain for 400 years, the Saxons ruled for 500 years, and the Normans almost one thousand years, the British ruled virtually the whole WORLD for 300 years.
@Jason Statham The Vikings never ruled England for 200 years, don't know where you got that from. They failed to conquer Wessex, due to Alfred the Great. Also they never fully conquered Mercia or Northumbria.
Alfreds son and grandson then conquered the other Kingdoms which had been ruled by Vikings for a number of decades at most. At which point England became whole for the first time since the Romans the left.
Only during the 19 year reign of King Cnut (and I guess briefly under his father and sons, but them less than 10 years) was England ruled by a Dane.
For the vast majority of 927-1066, England was ruled by an Anglo-Saxon. The Vikings ruled parts of England (half of Northumbria and Mercia, and whole of East Anglia) from roughly 877-927 (they lost Mercia in 911 and East Anglia in 918 with Northumbria the last to fall in 927). So 50 years and even then only about a third of England was under their control (80 including Cnut and his sons).
Americans: "We are the greatest country in the world"
Britain: "Hold my cup of tea"
**Dominates the world**
We dominated the world before America was even a place
We gave birth to the USA after owing half the world.
Birthed Australia with the bits of England we didn't want
@@Robvaughan1970 Exactly
@@XtremeAnarchists Exactly
Technically America is Britain. Every countries that speak English like Canada, New Zealand, Australia etc are what they are today because Britain invaded and British people settled there.
US land on Mars " boss, we've found something, a Union Jack ! "
Gotcha! Boom!!!
😂😂😂😂😂
Yup - 1874 / 1913 !
Nearly everyone in starwars speaks English which means England invaded the universe
😂😂😂😂😂
When it's pissing down on a miserable Sunday you gotta find something to do.
Yeah lets just pop down to France I'm in the mood for another invasion, it won't take long, we'll be back home for tea.
@@danvidsgaming7789 " Mum, I'm bored " ...... " Go and conquer somewhere and don't get covered in mud "
Common lads, off to France we go!
Here’s a fact: after Christmas, the most celebrated holiday in the world is independence from Britain. On average, every 7 days someone somewhere around the world celebrates independence from Britain. That’s mad
That seems somehow both insulting and at the same time flattering.
Thanks Groin, I did not know that
and they do so with freedom, railways, elected governments and a place in the modern world. Its not all about taking, there was a hell of a lot these countries (mostly) were left with, and which they still benefit from today.
@@itwoznotme True but you've got to remember most of the colonies were run in order to make money (except for those that were just around so we could have global naval bases) so while they were developed by British investment the empire took more then it gave.
is that actually true?
As an Englishman, I can confirm our balls are gigantic and made from the finest British steel
Forged on the Clyde no less
I think you're forgetting what else the balls are made of. *puts the war on hold for an hour for tea time*
You also gave us Jimmy Saville
@@holdonwaitaminute7285 Saville is a French surname. Just saying
@@willgibbons1733is that why he tampered with so many English.
Land: *exists*
British history: "its free real estate"
Land: *exists*
Human History: "it's free real estate"
@@sh-hg4eg Stop trying to take credit humans = the rest of the world. We brought the world to heel.
"Stop trying to take credit" - I'm literally English.
Britain had a big empire, yes. All humans have invaded another at some point or another though, even small tribes, such as native Americans, would fight each over land.
@Angus Hanna also the only one to give its colonies etc independence without massive bloodshed and treated its citizens better mainly cause of our fuck up in the usa
@Shaarav Guha well the british did piss off a lot of people heheh
American finds out why they speak,.., "english"
Because they were founded by the English and still has a large British descendant population.
@@sh-hg4eg there's no past tense to found.
@@sh-hg4eg british and irish and german and polish and italian, all around europe but the first were british
@@ashenone3050 hence why i said founded. Immigration to North America was almost exclusively north Western European for the majority of its history. The Poles and Italians were quite late, as was the majority of Irish immigration.
@@sh-hg4eg i was just adding that the white population are not just from british descendants
There is a reason they say "The sun never sets on the British Empire".
Where as now it’s “where the sun never shines”
BreadedVirus got that one right!
@@stevespack77 technically it still doesn’t set, due to a load of random islands it still owns.
The French retort is "Because God does not trust the British in the dark"
@@firstlast7052 You wake up in the morning and we ate a quarter of the globe for breakfast
We are the 79th smallest country in the world and we had the biggest empire in history 💪🇬🇧🇬🇧 so proud to be British
It is also unironically why the vast majority of people around the world watching this are able to understand you whilst watching it. Yourself included.
For which I'm very thankful. Could have been founded as a Spanish speaking colony thanks to Spain or be talking we we and eating baguettes thanks to the French. I'm glad things started the way they did here as far as the country responsible for starting us off.
@@TheEclecticBeard if Britain had stuck around you could have bad teeth & a funny accent by now. Be thankful.
@@THOMASCOLTON1 That's a myth, the teeth thing. The British have healthier teeth than the Yanks, on average, for the same reason we have healthier people in general.
@@THOMASCOLTON1 also afaik americans actually speak the more original british accent as the accent continued to evolve in Britain itself?
@@shadowraven4221 The “American English” we know and use today in an American accent first started out as an “England English” accent. According to a linguist at the Smithsonian, Americans began putting their own spin on English pronunciations
World “how much land do you want?” British “YES”.
Americans still attack other countries for ropa
We just really didn't want to learn a foreign language. And France is just a hobby
Just for a laugh, without even going there, the UK invented Belgium out of thin air in 1837, just to annoy the Netherlands, Germany and France - and also Austria who previously owned the area.
The brits were amused greatly by this as well.
@@victoriahunter4684 hahaha
I still think it was all just a excuse to get away from the wife and weather for a bit
And to look for spicy foods and Olympic grade athletes.😂
it was just a piss up booze cruise
@Swords Chant did we?
@Swords Chant lol I’m assuming we invaded you at some point and your bitter, or maybe you are a European guy who’s pissed we aren’t the second biggest contributor to your country anymore stiff upper lip old chap
@Swords Chant the romans took their ball and went home, we are viking, the viking way was to invade integrate and vanish, and we were holding off the Nazis , the yanks only helped re taking europe, 41-44 they were getting ready while we held off the nazis
We came, we saw, we conquered, we gave it back.
And then did it again for fun
Gunna be my new t-shirt. ✌️
After establishing democracy, railroads, infrastructure and trade.
Kinda like our version of sports fishing.
But all too often, only under severe duress.
While you were watching this video we planted our flag in your garden. *Sips tea.*
And that tea thing was taken from India.
@@fizzylovesjam5378 um... I don’t think that’s what they meant... I think they were just emphasising the fact how many countries the Brits took over (India being one of them), since that’s what this video is about ....
@@fizzylovesjam5378 the tea is the last thing Britons took from india, first they took all the gold
@@rakibshah True, but in our defence, we did give it to you in the first place.
Having stolen it from China...
@@Lyricalez They also stole their curry recipes, that's the important one.
I was touring france and went to one of their military museums. a guide was showing the group around exhibits relating to times around the napoleonic wars. He pointed out Spanish, German, Dutch, Austrian, captured flags, armour and cannon from numerous battles. He was asked if there were any English items. To which he replied, " Sadly, no". Kind of sums thing up!
Maybe we visited the same museum, I must say the chap I asked where do you keep all the white flags used to surrender to the English was not very polite.
i thought napoleon fought only the british twice ( siege of toulon, victory, waterloo, defeat), all the rest was against the mainland coalition and ottomans..so no surprise there are no english item...they were just 3rd tier grades.
@@vaudou74 Not all the battles were on land. There were numerous sea battles. Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 being most notable.
Yet, the Normans conquered England, and the French Plantagenets also ruled it, with "English" kings, some born in France and others also speaking French. The forces of England were defeated in France so that the rulers of England finally lost the last territory in France- Calais- in the reign of Mary I. The English learn in school of victories in France, not defeats.
@@mizofanIndeed the Normans did conquer England. Also true that English forces were eventually removed from France. Although i am unclear as to why you brought that to the discussion.
I have to assume you did not go to school in England or you had a poor history teacher. In school history classes i was taught about the victories and defeats. There were i recall questions about both in later exams.
So, I was on a language & orientation course in Finland a few years ago. It happened to be their independence day. Our assignment that week was to prepare a short talk, with visual aids, about when our independence day is, & how we celebrate. When it was my turn, I pinned up a picture of the Union Flag, & just said; 'We don't have an independence day. We are the reason that you all have one.'
Laughed my socks off!
Thank you for calling it the Union Flag and not the Union Jack :)
Loved this comment, laughed so hard, I too am glad it was correctly referred to as the union flag
Brits choose their holidays to coincide with that country's independence day so we can say "Your welcome" to party goers 🍻😅😅
I actually laughed loudly to this
This is why we'll never win the Eurovision song contest or the world cup because we've invaded that many countries it's there way of getting there own back at us lol
That's gratitude for building them nice railways! Bloody ungrateful world!
This is too funny😂
England has 5 wins which is great Ireland has the highest wins with 7 (Eurovison not World Cup)
@@CaptainAmercia no shit
*their
The World Cup isn't a popularity contest. The reason will haven't won it since '66 is because we suck.
We didn't mean to invade anyone, we just popped over to say 'hello' and teach people how to play cricket and rugby
And build railways ...... ready made transport system to help you out once we'd left.
Yeah wish we hadn't bothered most of the time 😂😂😂
And how we boiled leaves to make a relaxing medicine also known as tea
And they just would. not. do. what. they. were. told.
Mostly just hanging around till someone came around to offload the pile shit.
I don't know why but this makes me proud to be British 😂😂
We're all bastards really
But we love it 🙃
It's very true. We watch this video and say we're proud to be British because this video shows how powerful a small island was but you then have to think that we went around the globe slaughtering people, even innocent people. And we created pow camps similar to the nazi camps.
@@garethlloyd1445 EXACTLY - we were not "the good guys" at all. People tend to see it differently in the UK of course.
@@MaulerMyers, Scotland wasn't exactly innocent on that front. Scotland came cap in hand to England after her own failed venture into colonialism. People in Scotland (& Wales) like to pretend they're the victims, where in truth they were very much accomplices.
The greatest empire of liberty, fair play, good governance, rule of law and civilisation
We just don’t do different languages, we thought it was just easier to teach the world English
and then bring people back as souvenirs and that's why Britain is multicultural
@@abdirahmanabdi9050 This is true, but not only did we abolish slavery, we assembled a fleet specifically for freeing and then sinking slave ships, whilst fighting and two front war and in desperate need of the allies, we pressured them into either restricting or abolishing slavery (The US restricted only lol), but the rest abolished it)
So uhh, we've done some horrid shit in the past but I am proud of this
Worked didnt it? We now get to speak English on holiday and fart in the pool
English is basically latin, french and german together and simplified... So some actual truth there.
@@babalonkie and not British. Welsh is British
As a country smaller than most American states we approve this message
Actually we are not, we are bigger then most, for many bigger then 2 put together, only Alaska and Texas are bigger I think, maybe California, although its a similar size. Its just on maps the world gets stretched and warped due to it being a globe and all, a good site is The True Size of, you would be surprised at many countries size compared to others, Greenland is surprisingly small and Russia is only a little bigger then the US
A simplistic view of the world and nation-states, which Americans use too much. For example, the US uses California as being more richer and powerful than the UK, but it misses many factors that mitigate the assertion. What are they? HIstory, longevity, the economy, the currency, soft power, the military, and diplomacy.
Size of the area of the state is not important if that is the case Russia but the top power now and then China. Also, the size of the population is not that important, though it can be. Aka the EU and US, both populations are highly educated and are utilized in a certain way to generate wealth. The EU has a massive advantage here due to it being more equal than the US. The England or latter on the UK used what they had to very good advantage - meaning they used the navy to dominate, which boosted the economy and it snowballed.
@@cyborg_v271 hmm I think this isnt true at all looking at map comparisons based on square miles
@@shanus11 it is
My Bad, Looking things up yes there are about 10 states larger in square miles of land area, although most of those are only a little bigger. I think I got confused with Alaska and Texas being more than twice as large, not just larger. Still the general point stands that we are in fact larger then most American states and not smaller then most.
Also if you count overseas territories not just mainland Britain we jump up ahead of Wyoming and Oregon
British: Invades Belgium to support the Belgians
Hitler: Write that down! Write that down!
Britain created Belgium after Waterloo lol
"They say the British had an empire on which the sun never set...That's because God would never trust the British in the dark..."🤣
Imagine having done this for 1000 years but still being hated less that America in under 60 years.
🇬🇧
It isn't hard being hated less than America in this time period that's all I'm saying lmao
USA is still just a British colony in denial
@@artful1967 couldn’t agree more
@@artful1967 Yeah.
Us Brits really made the statement “big things come in small packages”
Nah, it's the radnors mate
U Brits made attacking France a trend or a lifestyle :D
@@KING-ef2wm It has become more of a hobby
@@derekblack2000 when we droping boys?
@@KING-ef2wm Something to do when we bored
As a Brit I feel like a naughty school boy chuckling to myself at the back of the class. I know I have done wrong but can't stop laughing about it.
We could have had it all..
@@mrtappyasmr7702 empires always fall
@Athos Aramis 😂😂😂👏👏👏
@@yeetneet5334 how has it falling !!! The pound is worth more than any other money on the world market ,we are richer now than ever !!! FACT
@@danjames5552 it isn't about riches, it's about military power, which South Korea is stronger than us, we are 8th place and dropping, Social issues, external issues, some of the countries under the crown are leaving, the pound is falling, slowly but still slowly, it's Pax Americana, we can't go on a head to head battle with the USA.
We can't forget the country that literally gave birth to the united states
We do like to travel,, especially for a good holiday.. Lol.. The reason We invaded France so much is simple,, the French have always been great at hosting invasions ..
Interesting fact for you. Statistically France is considered the most successful military in Europe. I know, I know...but when you think that WW1 + WW were considered victories you can see how rigged it is.
As Al Murray said, taxes were brought in to fund the war against the French and were still paying taxes so why dont we start another fight against them lol
@J LD I love how the English choose to forget the times they were invaded & taken over by the French. They really can be sanctimonious. Sad.
@@mwdyceffylgwaith yep, but the difference is we got invaded and conquered by a few different peoples over the centuries. The romans, saxons and the normans invaded quite successfully. The vikings ended up staying they liked it so much😂 (that’s why our counties have such odd names like Wessex, Sussex, Essex and Norfolk they were named by the vikings from the point they settled).
@@mwdyceffylgwaith Modern day 'France' only invaded England three times, an ill fated attempt in 1545 and again ill fated on 18 Feb 1778. The last attempt on the shores at Fishguard was actually Wales so technically not England, and yes they got their arses slapped there as well. Normans still do not consider themselves French, so that doesn't count, also carried out when England as a country was not united. Sanctimonious enough for you? And I'm not even English.
The french invasions don’t count as they were just holidays.
Just like the German holiday in 1939
@@heuhen The first tour-de- France.
France is just England so it wasn’t an invasion.
@@tomben6180 France the lesser part of England.
a hobby at best
They missed: the Falkland Islands, St Helena, Bermuda, Ascension Islands, South Georgia, British Virgin Islands and probably a few more...
The Falkland Islands were British to begin with. The French occupied them for a time when Britain's backvwas turned, but we reclaimed them later. Argentina didn't even exist as a country then. It was ruled by Spain.
@@drwhatson well technically the French got there first but it doesn't count as an invasion as we didn't force are will on the natives seeing as the island had no native and no just because someone got there first doesn't make them native.
Plus the French and Spanish recognise the British claim later on. The Argentines are just pissy because they were late to the game.
It also misses the British Invasion of Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria during WW2.
Yh we get it, we're great
Falklands, St Helena and Bermuda weren't inhabited, South Georgia still isn't
"The Sun never sets on the British Empire" a believe someone once said
Because God would never trust an Englishman in the dark, said the Irish.
@@sserptoh god's only jealous cos he wasn't born in Britain
i was taught that in school ;)
@@starbarrothschild788 I mean, the queen is immortal, maybe she is god??
It's why when Americans go on about how powerful and great they are.
The British empire just sits in the corner with the Romans, Greeks and Egyptians laughing.
In modern times the us would smack the bri ish with their muskets
@@mademespice4683 The US military is Technology over skilled soldiers. The US havent got anywhere near as good skilled soldiers as the UK
At the time Britain was committed to fighting Napoleon. A far superior fighting force indeed. So in reality we were already busy and had to put our strongest forces in France.
Americans have still failed to beat countries of people that still wipe their arse with their hands.
Viatnam - failed
Iraq - failed
North Korea - still mocks you
Iran - doesn't listen
Iraq a second time - fail
Afghanistan - fail
The British took back the falklands in the 80s
Stopped Germany in 40s and for the small island we are, pack the biggest punch in the world.
@@mademespice4683 lol they couldn't beat a bunch of rice farmers with ak47's don't talk shite.
This is the reason The term “don’t piss off the British” exists.
Yup, shame Argentina didn't get that memo.
@@lewilewis3944 They received a reminder
Davey Boyd you gotta give them A for effort though, they should’ve gone for chile instead
@@MynameisTMP- Yes. They were gonna go for Chile first, but didn't the invasion fleet get fucked in a storm or something?
Davey Boyd I think the idea was to have a peace treaty with chile while they fended the British off and make an example of us before they invaded Chile but I can’t remember the ins and outs of it, you’re probably right
Egyptian: "We are the greatest empire to have existed."
Macedonian: "No, we are."
Roman: "I think you'll find we were the most far reaching and influential."
The Brit sipping tea in the corner: "How quaint."
That is hilarious, laughed so much.
The British empire the biggest empire in human history bigger then the Roman the Greek and any one else's for size for conquering for taking over for planting the flag so every county has invaded has British blood line in them some where.
And by extension, viking blood.
I think that may have influenced British foreign policy.
Sorry but the Mongal Empire was the largest continuous Empire stretching from Peking to Vienna.
The Brits is like...do you have a youtube vid?
1:21 " *Ireland was the first target of British conquest ,it was invaded as early in 1169* "
Actually no , *Wales* was England's first colony , Chepstow castle which stands on the Welsh border was built in 1067 - a full century before the invasion of Ireland . With the ensuing centuries and endemic warfare between the English and the Welsh ,Wales finally submitted and subsequently became England's first colony .
The narrative of the documentary often interchanges the terms 'England' and 'Britain' - an all to common mistake...
It was a never ending search for the perfect tea and biscuit!
Also never underestimate the British need to piss off the French 🤣
we do it because we blood bothers
Precisely.
Joss Acklands Spunky Backpack , classic Brass eye 🤣
@@chrismiller2395 I wish he'd make a pandemic special
@@ExplodingPiggy if only mate would have been worth staying in for! 👌🏻
Sometimes you just get an overwhelming feeling deep down as an Englishman where one too many rainy days drives you to pure madness and you have to Invade somewhere, anywhere immediately.
I think it’s lack of Vitamin D, we just needed some Sun.
That's why they put bollards in front of one stops
Put on your red coat and invade those blues away.
Great Britain shaped the modern world. It's said that if you knock an English man down he will get up and say "sorry". If you knock him down again he'll get up and flatten you.
Thats a blast from the past👍🇬🇧
Yes we're very polite in England until we choose not to be :)
Nail on the head my friend
@@BizlaC And if you knock him down a 4th time he'll seriously consider divorcing you.
@Swords Chant Don't be salty.
It can be humbling knowing we almost certainly kicked the crap out of you at one time or another, then rebuilt your godforsaken cesspit and turned it into a modern first world nation it may or may not be today.
The king/queen at the time just closed there eyes and threw darts at a map of the world.
Even though im a Indian, but born in the UK and raised there, so technically considered BRITISH... this brings tears to my eyes... how such a small country could dominate the world with its thinking and technology...
Part if it was the waters surround our nation, Its some of the most dangerous waters in the world so sailors had to be tough and well trained while the ships themselves had to be well built.
The Empire was built on the back of the navy.
You’re not “technically” British, you ARE British!
If you're born here, you're british... Not indian. You're part of the family that brings you up.
@@NathanielBTM All British people are descended from migrants but many are not happy to learn that 😉
@@lololololololololololololol338 every living thing in existence are descendants of migrants
Now you can see why us Brits will always dispute the US's claim to be the greatest nation on the planet, 🤣. Not bad for a pissy little rock on the eastern side of the Atlantic. Even for a brit that was quite an eye opener, my reaction was similar to yours lol
come on the yanks can never claim to be the "greatest" nation fuck me they can't even get their own house in order without us let alone fight a war on their own
Rockall just an uninhabited rock, btw has just seen off an Irish fishing boat for pinching our fish!
Sure they can. They just have to say '' you had all of this at different points in history and now you're just a pissy little rock, way to fuck that up ''.
@@dzello Don't make us creep up that river and burn down your White house again (to be fair, you guys should welcome that at this point after that total abortion of an election you just had)
@@LucifersTear God save the queen
Tyring to explain to Americans that Britain had a lot of oversea territory to control so they couldn't focus much of their military strength during the American war of independence. This video really shows it!
its called having too many fingers in too many pies
@@martinmalone6324 this isn't always a bad thing. Depending on the company lol
@@martinmalone6324 As a Brit I have to say I love a pie.
why do you care
It didn't help that the King at the time was a raving looney that didn't send the best general of his time to run the campaign.
In fairness the "Invasion" of Belgium in 1914 was in response to the Germans invading and Britain had guaranteed Belgian neutrality. The invasion was to very much to protect Belgium.
“Finlands up here” points to Norway. Americans and geography.
Also while having Finland highlighted on said map. Americans are awful for Geography smh
Whats worse is where finland actualy is, there was a big piece of text saying FINLAND.
As a norwegian, as long as we arent mistaken as Sweden its all good ;)
He actually pointed to southern Sweden!
@@runthemeows1197 Så länge vi svenskar aldrig är jämförda med Danmark så är det bra. Btw trodde vi var vänner Norge.
Missed out the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Saint Helena and Hawaii
@GETH ho Hong Kong was mentioned
Falklands was ours, Argentina invaded us
@@bram399 there was a bit of flag planting back in history but no one stayed until we kicked out the Spanish and put people on it
I was surprised it didn’t mention the Antarctic lands or the ‘trips’ into the artic.
I was going to say this myself, he also forgot bermuda
Look at all the holiday destinations that don't require you to learn a language...🤔🙃
"Want something? Go get it"
*britain proceeding to colonise for money and invade the shit out of everyone*
@@OnlyGrafting you forgot the bit where we look damm good doing it
Ahahahahahahahaha so freaking true
or holidays you don’t need a Visa for if you are a british Citizen! haha The British passport is the best passport you could ever have!
I remember my Grandad telling me he went on a bender once in Rotherhithe to celebrate a Millwall promotion. By the time he was sober, he'd woken up in Mombasa, having invaded most of the Middle East and Asia, as well as annexing several previously independent states for the British Empire. Never could hold his beer my old Grandad.
explains why English is the main language out of 7,000 languages in the world.
In fact, English is the 3rd most spoken language in the world after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
Yep including America! :D
@@spaceoddity3958 by native speakers, but not by speakers in total
@@TheGentleCreeper1 Sorry, your comment doesn't make sense to me. You may have to explain in more detail.
@@spaceoddity3958 He's saying English is the most spoken language if you include native and non-native speakers. So if you include people who speak English as a second language it's the most spoken :)
Love from Britain, like this guy seems a nice genuine person.
The British is an Island Nation, we mastered Naval warfare, land warfare, desert warfare, jungle warfare, urban warfare, Ariel warfare, weaponry and Infantry. we travelled all over the globe and mostly Triumphed. Our Legacy is the British Commonwealth, 54 Nations who The Queen is their leader. 2.4 Billion People worldwide. 54 nations who nowadays we put help. Not bad for a small country. Im Proud to be British.
You didnt do it, all the guys who did it are dead now
N now we're a fucking shit show can't even handle a virus
"Ariel warfare". Soap powder warfare? That's a Bold statement
Oh you mean "Aerial" warfare...my mistake!
EDIT: We're also pretty good at irony & hilarious puns.
@@Pwwh0711 a very BOLD Statement LoL. sarcasm is my thing.
People have to remember that invading other countries was pretty normal throughout history. Britain was just very good at it. Uniquely successful rather than uniquely evil.
What's funny is the map at the end has the UK enlarged massively, it's only about 1/3 the size of France.
look at any other maps its the same and its little over half bigger, line them up and its right
Have checked France is over 551,000 sq km and great Britain is just over 243000 sq kms still a big difference but I stand corrected
there are still many racist maps, enlarging Uk, shrinking Africa and various countries, the Northen hemisphere extended, Southern shrunk, with Greenland far bigger than Australia- and schools and education still mislead children..
In fairness to the French, Germans,Italians, Norwegians and the Danish, they invaded us first.
The French never invaded us, the Normans did. They were kind of sofisticated Vikings, who invaded part of France.
@@andrewdking The battle of Fishguard
@@cooldude4643 That's a new one on me, but some interesting info on it on RUclips. I am aware of some strange account of a US invasion during the US War of Independence by one ship. They landed but got drunk in a local tavern or something like that and failed.
@@andrewdking if you want to stop a british invasion in it's tracks just put a bed and breakfast that serves tea and biscuits and public houses between you and what you are defending.
@@123Andersonev Would literally work. It's why we never invaded Those Eastern European states.... Notice all the countries with world-class beer we never managed to get out the pubs to invade. 🍻😂
Smart move by the Czechs, Polish etc.
If they had good booze to share, we leave them be. Look at the video again, it's so true 😂
There is a comedian Al Murrey who does a set about how Britain has beaten every nation on earth in a war and let the crowd call out countries and explains how and in what war with a funny twist of course.
he's reacted to that one before
Is it on RUclips ?
@@ashiko7376 Yes Ashiko its tongue in cheek and very funny .
@@iowsiam492 Ah. Didn't see this before posting.
Ta
Buddy. I’m British and grew up in Australia. We had a huge map on the school wall with all the empire coloured red. God save the Queen.
As an Englishman I approve of this comment!👍
It should have been in pink.....
Australia is apart of the commonwealth so the The Queen is still their monarch. Same with Canada.
They used ot have them in Britain too...Until it became unacceptable to have a past where some minority was offended at some point.
@@Enivri doesn‘t matter, she doesn‘t control it.
They always used to say that "The Sun never sets on the British Empire"
England in 1000s: let's invade the world!
England in 2021: in 5 years we will take back control of our own waters and be allowed to fish there.
Well what do you want us to do invade europe and france over fish? The whole point in the empire and democracy is peace. The uk played a major part in the peace the world lives in today. If china or russia had it there way the world would be doomed
@@scottjohnson3389 First I want you to learn how to take a glib comment at face value, it's a useful skill which can save you much undue conflict especially online where text carries a tone that the reader assigns to it, unlike real speech. Maybe I've even just fallen victim to that, the internet is made for arguments.
Secondly if I did have to turn this into a serious comment, UK is no longer a trade empire but a service hub. The fishing industry is worth less than 0.05% of the UK's GDP. Spending so much time and energy in the farcical negotiations on this, rather than aligning our financial services which constitute 7% of the UK's GDP, is indicative of the ineptitude of the government whom we've just delegated full control.
Point 3... we're all going down with the ship. Grab yourself a shot glass and drink every time you hear "one last push" leave the lips of the luddites in Number 10.
@@GrumpyGrebo God-damn, you know your stuff. I shall use your comment when arguing with the ignorant.
I’m English, and I approve Sir, very good indeed.
Good good good sir, we seem to have a rather clever fellow in our midst.
Dont forget the seas were ours for quite a while too.😂
Britannia ruled all the waves
@@stephenjaneway260552 they must have been some pretty good surfers or maybe we sucked so we kicked everyone else off
Im a mix of Scottish and English is there a word for it
@@THEOOMPH yes. Wanker
@@THEOOMPH yeah. about 10 Scottish clans did all that whilst England built the boats.
This makes me really proud to be English ,British we are a great little island.
Most countries have been endlessly invaded, it is how countries become countries. UK has been invaded successively for 2000 years. UK didn’t invade most world countries, it inherited lands by virtue of other wars. The British empire wasn’t based upon invasions, it was based upon trade by private companies ie. East India Company & the administration of say India was by invitation of the warring Indian tribes of who wanted a natural third party to keep the peace.
It's important to remember that for much of history, in less enlightened times, the way of life dictated aggressive conquest. The UK filled that void more than most countries perhaps, but it's not something modern British people should be ashamed of. We operate within the framework of our current norms.
Besides, most countries have a very similar past - the UK just did it more efficiently.
Facts, I feel like people think we're a small country of influence, but we still have quite a bit of influence in other things, we also still have a monarchy of which is pretty dope, and traditional things which gives some pride of being British, but I think we're going through some teething problems with no being an Empire, and the fact our Navy is a shadow of its former self in terms of size.
There are a lot of people who don't realize that that was the way the world worked for thousands of years...one group invaded another group, conquered them, either massacred, assimilated, or forced them to move and took their land. I point that out to people who whine about how the US was founded. When they claim that America is bad because Europeans invaded, conquered, wiped out the indigenous people, and took their land, I point out that that was how every nation in the Americas was founded, there are millions of indigenous people in the US, the US has roughly the same percentage of indigenous people as every other nation in the Americas, and the indigenous people in every nation in the Americas except 2 are relegated to a small portion of the country...Bolivia has an indigenous majority and the indigenous people were actually wiped out in Argentina. I also point out that there are several nations in Asia that were founded just like the US but it was Asians who invaded, conquered, and took the land from the indigenous people.
Best way to put it....if they don't have a flag, they can use ours...if they don't like it, gun beats spear....
Some places actually massively benefited from sanitation electricity and water. Important to look at the good as well as the bad
The UK had the best navy of that era which made it easy to invade other countries. That being said there seems to be lots of finger pointing at the minute, so what you need to remember is that 1. We are not our ancestors 2. The people of the UK are not the government who invaded countries 3. Your politicians are just as bad as ours.
The reason he used "invade" Italy in WWII is because the Italians faught with the Axis powers. They surrendered twice, hence the term Italian rifle for sale, never fired but dropped twice.
@Ego Master lol
That is not really fair to Italian soldiers. When well officered, trained and equipped many fought very bravely!
@@marklawes1859 chill bro it was a joke
My understanding was the entire RUclips comment section is a joke. Let's not buck the trend :-)
It’s not that we like wine, it’s more of we like putting France back in their place! You know! When they get to big for their boots? Haha
All our prejudices and jokes about the French makes sense when you consider how long we have warred with them.
France > England
Horatio Nelson said to his troops: "Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil."
I mean, "France can't have nice things" was British foreign policy for quite a few centuries...
@@BlackStar2161 Still is, I believe
The guy in the original video instantly can't distinguish between England and Britain.
Be quicker to just list the bits of the planet the British Didn't invade.
22 and maybe less
World's best supplier of independence days ever.
There's another one coming 🏴
@@c4lumm4c Scotland is a joke of a country fucking lmao 😂
@@c4lumm4c
Yeah, free from English rule straight to the left tit of the eu 🇪🇺💶
@Swords Chant
Toothbrush? You mean the thing mass produced first by an English gentleman?
Bri’iSh Av BaD TeEf
When I was in school in the 60's they taught us "The sun never sets on the British Empire ". I am Canadian though. Peace
That's because even God wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark
@@ferretgubbins if God doesn’t like the English, then why is he always saving the Queen?
@@AlexanderDiviFilius cause the queen is german
@@jimthedadman8928 Born in London, raised in Britain, speaks English as a first language. Why care about her ethnicity? You’re not British because of your ethnicity. Besides, the English are a Germanic people anyway.
Not to mention the fact that she’s a direct descendent of Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror.
@@AlexanderDiviFilius not totally we are mixed with Celtic, Viking & Normans who ineffectively are vikings anyway. I think because being an island and the fact it was always being invaded the people of the whole island just knew how to fight to survive and then that skill n experience then you start looking outwards and do on to others. Crazy though.
We always did like to punch above our weight limit, and we've won almost every war we've been in, it's very impressive when you think about it.
All countries invade other countries, we just happen to be good at it
It was Cecil Rhodes who said "To be born English is to win 1st prize in the lottery of life".
and now what with your rotting meat.😂😂😂
So, who's the next you are going to quote ? Benito Mussolini? Josef Stalin? Robert Mugabe ?
Never underestimate our little island! Been punching well above our weight for centuries! 💪🇬🇧
Yep
U mean taking advantage of other countries ,being greedy,unfair,imposing ur language and culture and in some cases slaughtering native people if the land u have invaded and leaving countries like India/Pakistan and Ireland/Northern Ireland in shambles because hey the British people are just superior or better then everyone else in their eyes ? Or more like ignorant bullies throughout the centuries. (No offense meant to u directly or any other British people, I have friends that are British but I myself anyway wouldn't be proud of something like that ,but that's just me)
@@zaclynch7265 its called war every country has had it and done it and been proud of it .it shapes everything some are just better at it than others
@@zaclynch7265 Actually we left pakistan and india in better states than they were when we arrived but okay lol. Spit on the heritage and history of the empire all you like, but you can’t take away from the fact that it actually abolished slavery in 1/3 of the entire world and those that continued slavery were either invaded or we stopped trading with them. The empire committed many attrocities for sure but without it we would be in a far less advanced and modernised world.
@@zaclynch7265 Food for thought: It is the only empire to have voluntarily disassembled itself and returned sovereignty to its member states. 54 nations decided they were so brutalised by the culture of Empire that they signed up to an international club headed by the monarch of their aggressor. For the people, sometimes the foreign despot kicks you less hard than the local one. History pre 1900 is one long succession of angry men with lots of metal hitting other men until they handed over their things, and the British were very good at it: but at previous points in history it was right and honorable to kill and die for your tribe, your god, your king, your country (delete as appropriate depending on century). Should we take pride in our history being full of blood-covered bastards? Probably not.. Should we take pride in the fact that 54 nations decided that of all the bloody bastards to have been conquered by, they'd like to join the club hosted and run by the British and their ex imperial monarchy? Yes, a little.
Not just England but the whole island of Britannia. Scottish/welsh and Irish soldiers all played a vital role in creating the biggest empire the world has ever seen
@@0xmoo That’s probably no longer the case. I predict in 50 years time Ireland will be united and Scotland will leave the union. Wales I’m not entirely sure
@@0xmoo No I meant Northern Ireland will join the Republic of Ireland. Sein fein is now the largest party in Northern Ireland however the loyalist population will definitely retaliate if that happens. I know Scotland voted to stay in the union but I’ve just got that feeling they will inevitably leave
England and Britain aren't the same thing: some of these were English invasions and then after the Act of Union in 1707 created Great Britain you could say they are British. Don't forget the English invaded Wales and Scotland too - but Scotland also invaded England quite a few times.
Wales was busy defeating the Vikings
The English never conquered Wales. After 1066 England was a Norman colony and it was the Norman's who invaded and conquered Wales
@First Name they didn't consider themselves English until the 1400's, which is the first time after 1066 that England had a King that could speak English, and the British before 1707 were exclusively the Celtic people's
@First Name I'd imagine that's what the "reconquest of normandy" was all about
@First Name King John
“The sun never sets on the British Empire “ cos God doesn’t trust them in the dark
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quality
Chuckles.
So very true. Either with it on or off.
Damn I was gonna comment this😂😂🇬🇧🇬🇧
From 43AD to 1066AD we had a crash course in being on the receiving end of multiple invasions so when we decided to invade people we knew how to di it right.
and all that training with the French
I watched another RUclips video on this and it was shocking how many times we’d been invaded. The last invasion was in 1797.
Would that be the incident during the Napoleonic Wars when one small town on the South coast of England was technically invaded by Napoleon's army for about 4 hours (after which the ship full of French soldiers got bored and left)?
@@raphaelperry8159 it was Wales apparently en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fishguard
The French invasion bit was in Wales and it was pretty much a penal unit sent it to cause a distraction to head off some of your armed forces to make it easier for the main French force to push in but they ended up surrendering to a bunch of women and farmers who had only gone to find out what the French looked like, and because they wearing red outfits the unit thought they were actual soldiers
It’s crazy how we are such a small island, but have been one of the most powerful countries in the whole world. It’s crazy
@Chayse Larsson You sure??
@Chayse Larsson it’s still almost the most advanced countries in the world mate
@Chayse Larsson China doesn’t have the logistic capabilities to deploy its forces to Europe, the only countries with more advanced military’s are the US, China, Russia and possibly France. China and the US are a given obviously because of their economy and population. The rest are up for debate and the Uk produces the best soldiers in the world has had for hundreds of years. You can keep talking shit under your umbrella of an overfunded military
The UK is not a country, it is a Sovereign State made up of 4 countries.
@@stevenmalarkey9391 you’re right but actually most of the accomplishments were actually English. We say British because we include the other countries that make up our culture, economy and way of life so really you’ve just replied to imply that you know the that the UK is a sovereign state 😂
Points to note, some times a French royal family member would leave France after being chased out and subsequently return with a British army to regain control, it would go down as a British invasion on France but was technically by a French family
I'm pretty sure they missed some off the list. such as the falklands. And Didn't we claim part of antarctica?
As the title is "American Reacts to Every Country England Has Invaded", Wales and Scotland should have been listed too.
@@LR-vq4wr oh yeah. how could I of forgotten those. also it stated in the video we invaded Norway but forgot to highlight that part as well
I think he tried to do it within a 15 min video. Try and fit in all the countries the Brits have invaded or pissed off, and we will be here for a couple of days! I couldn't bare it!!
@@diagorosmelos3187 and we are hated to this day still by alot of folk in distant lands
also should have included the pitcairn isles, south georgia, south shetland, south orkney, ascensian isles and also the chago archipelago
"The sun never sets on the British Empire" was not used metaphorically. It simply means that the empire stretched so far around the globe that some part of it was always in daytime.
Would never have guessed, anyone with half a brain knew that 100 years ago hardly a mind boggling piece of information in 2021.
@@dpb1948 Mind your head doesn't jam in the door frame on the way out, Mr Supercilious.
I have seen about 20 of your videos now and man you have a great channel.
seafaring island people who built the best navy is what made them so powerful
lot of roman, viking and saxon blood running through the veins of the islands inhabitants, making them wanna go out and conquer shit lol
Which is why their celtic people had to invent everything, create everything and be the hardest fighters in their military.
@@Pete9Tails lol wtf are on? let me guess, you are either irish or scotish?
Nah, it's because of the shit weather and everywhere else is warmer...
@@orbytl2799 yes
@@Pete9Tails ghurkas?
The US: Size matters!
The UK: Hold my beer
😂😂😂
Hold my Tea you mean!
@@pareshpanchal91 If it's Yorkshire Tea, then 100%
PG Tips and Typhoo tea are okay
Nobody drinks the fancy stuff here😂
I think we should open the empire back up who's with me. Lets start with France
Count me in 👍🇬🇧
I'll join too.
Can we pick somewhere less shit. Ibiza looks good 👍
@@michaelpyro87 as long as we get our 25% of the world back that we are rightfully owed it can be whatever you want.
@@LLTL313 while I admire your 's and Gammon's enthusiasm, I think we should take back the UK first. Just saying.
We were looking for the perfect cup of tea, we had to travel!
France was asking for it, they're too smug
It was only right we got revenge on them for all the invading they did to us. And still to this day France can't be trusted 🏴🇬🇧
@@crikeychief8582 I propose another invasion of France for old times sake and to grab ahold of your everyday frenchman and give him a bloody good rollicking.
Still are
The Kremlin didn't say fight.... a divided country!
We go over to France to have a tear up every now and again. Keeps up match fit
Al Murray lol
@@CovenantersfriendRTB 😀
That’s why the Chinese call England the land of the hero people...
They do? Wow
@@-duck Yes, England in Chinese is 英國. 英 is Hero/Brave, 國 is Country.
also because they have no names for some of the english.. America is called great country :P
I thought that was the Japanese, there's this sort of dialect thing they have where they basically have pet names for countries. It's something to do with how the alphabets translate
@@-duck I think they have a lot "H" to their words
What can I say...we Brits certainly did enjoy a lads holiday.
As for invading only 60% don't be sad boys, we'll do better next time. 😃
We do love a bit of an invasion, you stick us on a ferry and genetically, we think we are invading somewhere! We even bring our own tea bags just to make our invasion a bit more civilized, someone posted about France, well.....it kind of is a hobby, but we have stopped doing that as they don't put up a fight really :)
As an Englishman I can confirm, we do not like the French.
As an Englishman I can confirm that I would rather live in Europe than the UK. :)
@@lousbits bye then! Nothing stopping you
@@lousbits good we dont need snowflakes like you here join the weak
Hilarious Neo facist comeback there.
As a Scot, we like the French and the Welsh
This is the England flag 🏴 not this 🇬🇧 that’s the U.K. flag the empire was a joint effort by English Scots welsh and Irish.
Indeed. The Scots and English parliaments joined in 1707 after the Scots bankrupted themselves trying to establish wee empire-ette in Central America, but the mosquitos and the Spanish forced them out.
Yet England started it all. Our fleet took the first steps and then Scotland joined. But England did the legwork.
Irish??
@@kmcd3020 Ireland and more specifically N.I. is run by GB. Even if they never accept it. We are the motorbike. They are the sidecar. They're going nowhere. Without us
@@jameswatsonatheistgamer Northern Ireland yes , don't be an idiot and include the Republic , and the English can hardly run themselves, Brexit was a disaster and Boris is the leader. Wonderful arrogance indeed.
He missed two right from the start... Wales and Scotland - been at those ongoing before and after the Irish. We were still having Scottish uprisings after the US war of independence.
And the Falklands.
@@NorthWestOutlaws They weren't invaded, as there weren't any natives.