He's an extremely intelligent man who portrays himself as deceptively simple. The idea of a working-class accented nutter who can talk at length like a tenured professor is comedic genius.
@@sombraarthurBrazil speaks Portuguese for a reason, those lands were conquered centuries ago, and the Japanese constantly whooped and repelled the Mongolians time after time.
The first true royal family of england that we count was William 1, who was from Normandy. The current royal family descend from Germans, however, which i believe started as a relative of Prince Albert? Not too sure about where the current family started Edit: did some research. George V was the grandson of Prince Albert, with George VI being V's son and Elizabeth's Father
The nuclear bombs that were dropped on hiroshima and Nagasaki were originally slated to be dropped my royal airforce planes. The us had to rush to design a whole new plane to carry the bombs and were not ready to do so until the last minute. In the end they were merely escorted by the raf. The us president felt it would be a matter of prestige to be dropping the bombs. But it was very much in collaboration with British scientist and military planners that that terminal end to the Japanese war effort came about.
@ALSO-RAN ! The idea of cutting out the main support strut and redesigning the structure of the plane itself to be able to carry these bombs is a little more than retrofitting them. We can agree that the B29 was already in production, but it evidently had not been designed with the secret Los Alamos projects in mind.I Also believe that the American insistence on their own plane was in part an effort to ensure they had the unilateral capability to strike with the new weapon as often as they saw fit.
@@problemistatist the reasons Japan surrendered was cause of the ussr entering the war and not cause of the bomb the Japanese wouldn't care if the Americans dropped the and American did almost all fighting in the Pacific and asia with the exception of burma china and manchuria
@Bryan McDade anyone who's so much as glanced at a wiki page will know this. Same thing very much goes for what you call "Americans," yet the comedy act is still very much based on the caricature of a cocky "brit" - oversimplified and overexaggerated.
Bryan McDade y’all gonna be brits to me so long as every time the name Britain or England are mentioned in any sentence the first assumption is that it’s just us “stupid Americans” not knowing the difference or getting our facts wrong I’m gonna keep broadly referring to people living in the country as brits.
When Poland got invaded, the French and the British merely declaring war, then hunker down to protect their own land in the defensive line instead of attacking. Which they could easily do given that Germany moves most of the army’s division to Poland at that time.
slavboi No, he simply couldn’t do anything about. It would have risked the Treaty and the and it was miles from the nearest Western authority. It was the only thing Churchill didn’t sit well with in the Treaty.
@@xernax1841 After WW2 had ended (with the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht) the allies gave the control over Poland to the Soviet Union. They basically sold them off to the Soviets as what was left of the Polish population fought along the British army.
Al Murray is a History Graduate from Oxford University plus a Doctorate. He started this act to amuse his University friends. His persona on stage is totally an act. He is completely different in real life.
@@infinitydreamzz But you did teach me something I didn't know. I mean there are bound to be tonnes of events that people don't know of because the average person only encounters so much. Yet I never knew the Dutch sailed up the Thames.
@Scott Adam That depends do you believe handing over power back to colonies was an achievement or a determent to the morals of the people of Britain? Too many people its a thing to be proud of as its harder to give away power than to take away power after you have it.
a lot of the things he was saying were wrong but had a similar result, I.e. burkina faso was colonized by the French, the line in South America (why they speak Spanish in Peru) is called the treaty of tordesillas and was signed in 1494, not 1512, and by pope Alexander vi not pope Judas. There were some pretty impressive things in there though
The easiest way to beat someone like this is simply to name a country that no one knows anything about, including most historians, because they're too insignificant to take note of. Like have the Brits ever beaten Vanuatu? Maybe, maybe not. Point is he wouldn't be able to answer cos no one bothers knowing anything about Vanuatu.
The Germans are not allowed to brag about Hitlers concentration camps why would you guys feel proud of winning a war where your forefathers murdered raped and killed 28000 children in concentration camps?
I am not judging since what you mean is quite obvious ,but also keep in mind that there are sorts of people that if you say that as a Canadian will tell you you are racist and stuff like that
@@mixtapemania6769this whole continent? You know this is the net and not some land mass?! Seriously though, how are you guys doing? I know it's not good there atm, I hope things get better.
Anyone who likes Al Murray's work might enjoy his podcast - 'we have ways of making you talk' about WWII on which I believe he wrote his doctorate and made a TV series.
I had an algebra teacher that smelled of Bourbon 🥃 everywhere he want, it was interesting learning how to solve for X & Y while he slurred the equation..
The One In The Middle It’s a shithole. It’s a lucky escape because we don’t have to put up with it as much as we would if we still had control over it. That’s victory enough for us.
I had a history teacher who was awesome. During passing period he had loud music playing. He also has either point pong, mini golf, or mini foosball to play until the period started. He was sort of a hype man and made a big deal about things when he was teaching. He had this enthusiastically serious tone of voice that made it very enjoyable to pay attention to. He was very big on class participation and sometimes we would play class games to give us a break from the usual lessons. Sometimes when he was mad he would flip desk while being very vocal about his disappointment with the class. He would then use it as a chance to teach us. Most things he did was very over the top but in a fun way. Some students were scared of him but other loved his style of teaching. I learned a lot from his class and I've never had a teacher come close to his teaching style.
@@gorillainabikini266 as mercenaries. There wasnt much switzerland(at the state it was in then, it was literally the battle ground in the french revulotionary wars: Battle pf Zürich as example) could do against cray cray Bonaparte. Btw fun fact, France(Napoleon) still has a debt in the village I come from. MF didnt pay his food
World war 2 British, American and German fighter craft were shot down within Swiss airspace, multiple bombings of towns, forcing Switzerland to withdraw as a neutral party, thus creating the Geneva convention.
João Rodolfo Alves they were a puppet state that revolted, which caused napoleon to send the grand armeè to squash it which worried the European powers
Frying Pan Llama do you honestly think England defeated Germany in ww2, they were absolutely demolished, But the brits still go on about Dunkirk and how fantastic they were. It was literally a mass retreat. The Americans had to step in to save them.
For my Filipino bros. Just like when Al Murray said the British defeated Spain with the Battle of the Armada in 1588, The Brits defeated the Philippines through Spain, not only through the Battle of the Armada, but also when British troops and its Navy sailed from the British Raj, and took control of Manila and Cavite from Spain during the Seven Years' War, in 1762 to 1764.
Ethiopia was well armed and had a ruling family, Italy used chemical weapons and superior armaments to target and destroy strategic assets and depose the monarchy
@@nickchristensen8945 Yeah but what happened in the end? The Living God H.I.M. Haille Selassie was immortalized in Bob Marleys music while Mussolini was murdered by his own people.
The UK occupied Iceland in WW2 to prevent Germany from occupying it, ironic I know. But the point is that he would have counted this as a win for sure, since the icelandic government was against the invasion until the british set foot on the island, thats when Iceland basically did nothing to stop it.
@pinkchicken and the Dutch, everyone always forgets the Dutch, they had a navy the size of France and Britain combined at the time which made it the most powerful nation in the ocean.
@@vulgarresponse7080 Yeah but the Paddies are a republic now, so that didn't last. I am a plastic Paddy myself. My parents took leave of their senses and moved to England before I was born. However I did vote to leave the EU.
@@johnjingleheimerschmitt9356 What are you babbling about sir? his comment just expressed that he enjoyed the video and you had to barge in here with your riff-raff behaviour.
I fact-checked the startling claim "We (Great Britain/United Kingdom) have defeated every single f***ing country in the world at war." And there are 92 countries Great Britain/United Kingdom has not "defeated" "at war." I put them all into a document. docs.google.com/document/d/1634G1H18_gteDFu3nvDnCdA8lOE7S9nxt41h9iXWvd4/edit?usp=sharing
@@ivanland3789 but he wasnt completely wrong. He just bent some facts to make the joke. Like war of independence, technicality we lost but he made it sound as if we won by losing. Especially with today's america
@Dwarov 1 30 % of economy? You mean state budget, GDP or some other measurable figure? The greatest losses in the war were blood and soil. The land loss was "only" 10% but that included the best part of Finland. The reparations actually helped us as the process required the expansion of steel industry which was one major reason the country managed to not only get back to its' pre-war stage but greatly beyond.
Putting his claim factually, of the 193 countries listed by the UN, Britain has invaded or fought conflicts in 171 of them. That's about 93%, so he's not far off the mark.
Being funny when you’ve got a set to deliver is one thing. Being funny when you have no idea what country you’re going to be talking about next is another level. He’s sharp.
The fact that Britain history is full of colonialism and terrorism and this British guy tells the civilizations they have f*cked up, with a smile on his face, is funnier. more of a trajicomedy than "comedy"
@@dmrknbld It's hardly supposed to be a deep and meaningful examination of how British influence has both positively and (mostly) negatively affected the world, it's a quick comedic bit in which he flexes his knowledge of world history to support his comedic reasoning for how the British have beaten every country in a war at some point or another.
Person: *names country Great Britain hasnt defeated* This guy: ah one person from that country lost to me in the card game war, so basically we have defeated them.
Same brother. I hate ignorant Americans who think we kicked Great Britain’s Arse. We got lucky our founding fathers we’re just as crazy... but cheers 🍻
Uganda wasn't part of the German empire, he confuses it with Tanzania. Burkina Faso was part of the French empire so it was never conquered by the British empire.
France was allied to England and liberated during the second world war, as we have established, being an ally to the UK counts as being defeated AND if you re-establish the nation you might even have to give it to them afterall.
Tirewrench They never defeated France when they had that colony. Britain has never invaded Burkina Faso, thus confirming that Britain has not, in fact, defeated every country in the world. The same applies to Thailand, Philippines, Ethiopia, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, etc.
Managed to get a surrender? *we've won* Signed a peace treaty? *we've won* Defeated their colonizers? *we've won* Never even fought them before? *we've won* Lost to them??? *WE'VE WON*
@@SBImNotWritingMyNameHere not that ultimate... Remember that time when the French crown buy some swiss mercenaries to protect herself from a bunch of parisians protesters who came to Versailles to ask for f*cking bread ? They should've eat some brioche instead !! >
I don't think England ever had a war against Poland, but they sure as hell let Poland down against the germans, so if he sees a lack of support as a victory i guess they won against Poland too Edit: according to google Poland and England did indeed never have a direct war with eachother, but they were at some point on opposing sides of a war and Polish troops landed on english soil and "ransacked atleast one city".
@@deangreen2567because they made a silly promise to protect them from Germany while being on the other side of Europe, thereby starting ww2, and after the war it fell into the hands of the Soviets. Can’t blame the British though, they’re not all powerful.
@@mrsentencename7334 No, they didn’t. Britain (and France) made a promise to intervene and go to war with Germany should Germany launch an invasion campaign against Poland. The word ‘protect’ was never used, as Britain and France were not in a position to protect a country larger than their own, halfway across the European continent. Britain and France kept their promise, and entered the conflict as soon as Hitler turned his attention to Poland. Not to mention that the Soviet Union had invaded Poland from the other side, which only complicated the issue from the perspective of the British and French - who STILL entered the conflict to keep their promise with Poland regardless.
Lots of english words come from the norse language when we used britain as our personal plunder and rape holiday spot in the viking age. For example “bag” which comes from “bagge”. And now, we skandis (at least most of us) have gone full circle and adopted the word “bag” back again.
@@noahpimentel9341 actually the French only started invading Vietnam in 1858, way after Waterloo. However; right after WW2 the Brits did land on Vietnamese soil to accept the surrender of the Japanese troops there.
@@juanpaco3226 well on a technicality most of Israel is Palestine. And we helped Israel to invade Palestine. So according to the logic that this comedian is following you could count that.
For Canada, he could've gone "Ya know Quebec, it's part of Canada now. We took it over some 3 hundred years in the fields of Abraham. So technically, we've beaten Canada before it even was country, ANOTHER!"
true, and the Brits kicked the french out of majority of Canada, that's why only Quebec speaks french. Cause Brits didn't kick french out of Quebec as it's originally a French colony
@Alan Patridge 1770 captain James cook claimed the west coast of Australia (new south Wales) in the name of the crown. Fist come first serve job done. Learn all about it in Peter pan 😉
Why? On the contrary, it would make it a piece of cake... Just say "GB is the greatest country who saved the world by conquering it..." to any question... There ya go, A+
I love it when comedians project a persona that seems, well, stupid and ignorant, when, in fact that couldn’t be further from the truth... e.g. Al Murray, Jim Jefferies etc.
He's pretty good with his history. but Uganda and Burkina Faso were never german. Uganda was close to german east africa but Burkina faso was very french
Actually the invincible armada was comprised mainly of Portuguese ships and seamen thanks to the Iberian Union at that time in effect. And Portugal and England were indeed at war at the time. The Portuguese did pack quite the punch actually and eventually broke off from the Spanish yet again. Not before inflicting defeats on the Spanish, English, Dutch and French. Not to be messed with. Eventually they gave up all of that and focused on Bacalhau, beaches and Ronaldo.
I'm Portuguese-American and honestly? The more I learn about my heritage the more I learn Portugal is a really fascinating country. I'm very proud of my heritage. I heard at one time Lisbon was considered the capital of Intrigue. The country made smart and strategic alliances and maintained steady borders to this day. Dont underestimate Portugal my friends :)
@@intelligentpeople6533 that's exactly what I meant, funny how us Brits won their own war for them, left, then they started losing again, then the yanks got involved and they lost.
@@ripoutyourintestines5099 If only the civilians weren't a bunch of pussies and the higher ups not as much of fucking cocky douchebags, the U.S woulda actually had a better chance.
@Biden’s_Bro 58 that's like saying America won Vietnam...you can win every major engagement but if you gained 0 territory and your enemy is left standing you didn't win.
colonel august and in what part of the speech did he make fun of the people that died? lol. he was naming countries that the british empire beat.. literally world history.. if that upsets you, idk what to say.
00:06 WWII was won by the Russians, the western allies only were beneficiaries of the bitterly won victory of the USSR. The landing in the Normandy was a part of a race to Berlin, because Eisenhower and Churchill understood that whoever got the Germans on their side would dominate europe. The British obviously didn't win WWI either. If anything it was a humiliation for the British Empire. The Battle of Jutland was a phyrric victory at best, the Battle at the Somme didn't change anything but it cost 1 million lifes and the Battle of Gallipoli showed the world that the British Empire could be defeated by what they considered to be a thrid rate power. 0:34 Napoleon was a former emperor at Waterloo, trying a come back, and he would have succeeded had it not been for the Prussians. Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Leipzig, where no british troops were present after all. 0:50 The Spanish-British War ended with what historians call "Status quo ante bellum", which means that the situation at the tail end was the same as before the war. The english and by extension the british people were soundly defeated multiple times in history, without losing to foreign powers England wouldn't exist, because the Angles were such a foreign power, as were the Saxons, the Danes and the Normans. Furthermore did the British Empire lose to the Dutch in the Second Anglo-Dutch war.
When the history teacher gets drunk at school prom.
Brilliant comment
You win
We've all been there
haha.. was thinking Smithy and pub quiz..
This comedian is so punchable.
“Being an ally of ours counts as losing to us” LOL
As Canadians, the Queen and eventually Prince Charles is our head of state. Yes, that counts as losing to England.
The Evil Ascot Company are you for a republic?
@@TheIceman567 I don't relish having to carry King Charles' face in my back pocket for a couple of decades.
The Evil Ascot Company yeah I agree I think Canadians should have the vote on the matter.
So that sums up the entire commonwealths of the UK
“I think if you create a country out of thin-fuckin’ air, you’ve won”
The best sentence ever!
I had a “this part happened as I scrolled past this comment” moment.
@@Paragon13 Yehh? Yehh! 😄
@@Paragon13 same thing just happened to me
Even tho it's reducing a bit for what history really is. It's still hilarious
The only thought that popped in my head was "oh no not [current world event]"
Al Murray is the definition of a man of culture plus a touch of humor.
The result is fantastic. You learn while laughing
Just a "touch" of humour? Come on...
Would a fondle of humour be preferable?
You learn LOL you laugh more likely LOL
He's an extremely intelligent man who portrays himself as deceptively simple. The idea of a working-class accented nutter who can talk at length like a tenured professor is comedic genius.
He made some mistakes though. Uganda wasn't a German colony but a Bri'ish protectorate since 1894. He thought about Tanzania I guess.
They’ve even defeated England. The English Civil War. Absolute madlads!
I heard the joke that everyone hates America because America defeated them in a war at some point. That includes Americans who hate their own country.
@@roadhouse6999 us Americans fought to separate from Britain but just did everything they did afterwards besides the king and queen stuff
Sherman Rod Don’t forget the War of the Roses
Sherman Rod which one?
zach haskell no, not really
This man literally told us that they defeated America by losing to them.
They needed US independence for upcoming 200 year later to help win the fight againts german... so yeah.. in the end they are winning...
It's just a joke but ya didnt make sense lmao
1812-1814
Well from a certain point of view...
Marcia Osullivan
Ehhh.... not really a victory
“What language do they speak in Peru?” “Portuguese”
“no Spanish”
“oh”
Normally ppl don't know that in South America have a country that speak Portuguese, I very impressed someone say it
Lidia Soares I thought it was common knowledge
@@lidiasoares4939 Rio De Janeiro used to be the capital of the Portuguese empire at one point.
@@betsyduane3461 i know that.
@@lidiasoares4939 everybody who knows history knows that South American countries speak Portugese or Spanish
The Brits really did look at the world and go “I’ll have that.”
Is that a blue tudor rose I see as your profile pic?
@@thesandwich5321 nope. White lotus flower. I respect all nations cause I ain’t no bitch
@@cald1421you sound just like my mate! Love that for ya
And yet, Brazil and Mongolia had never a war against England.
Brazil and Mongolia are two countries that won every war they fought.
@@sombraarthurBrazil speaks Portuguese for a reason, those lands were conquered centuries ago, and the Japanese constantly whooped and repelled the Mongolians time after time.
What he’s saying is that the British don’t count the losses.
Yeah royal family is from Normandy
@@benblatz8558 i thought they were descended from German royals?
The first true royal family of england that we count was William 1, who was from Normandy. The current royal family descend from Germans, however, which i believe started as a relative of Prince Albert? Not too sure about where the current family started
Edit: did some research. George V was the grandson of Prince Albert, with George VI being V's son and Elizabeth's Father
No it’s cos nobody dares go against us >:)
@@tjdunne7349 yet we still got a part of their country
"Japan"
"We got the yanks to do it for us"
Lmao
Well tbf the brits were fighting Japan using their navy in the Pacific
The nuclear bombs that were dropped on hiroshima and Nagasaki were originally slated to be dropped my royal airforce planes. The us had to rush to design a whole new plane to carry the bombs and were not ready to do so until the last minute. In the end they were merely escorted by the raf. The us president felt it would be a matter of prestige to be dropping the bombs. But it was very much in collaboration with British scientist and military planners that that terminal end to the Japanese war effort came about.
@ALSO-RAN ! The history of the black lancasters and the development of B29 can be seen here: ruclips.net/video/5XX9ptCNpik/видео.html
@ALSO-RAN ! The idea of cutting out the main support strut and redesigning the structure of the plane itself to be able to carry these bombs is a little more than retrofitting them. We can agree that the B29 was already in production, but it evidently had not been designed with the secret Los Alamos projects in mind.I Also believe that the American insistence on their own plane was in part an effort to ensure they had the unilateral capability to strike with the new weapon as often as they saw fit.
@@problemistatist the reasons Japan surrendered was cause of the ussr entering the war and not cause of the bomb the Japanese wouldn't care if the Americans dropped the and American did almost all fighting in the Pacific and asia with the exception of burma china and manchuria
People taking this too seriously, he's obviously playing the part of an overly cocky brit that's gonna spin anything into a win
So a regular brit?
I call my self a Brit and I’m from Glasgow
Theres just Brits and aggressive Brits lol
@Bryan McDade anyone who's so much as glanced at a wiki page will know this. Same thing very much goes for what you call "Americans," yet the comedy act is still very much based on the caricature of a cocky "brit" - oversimplified and overexaggerated.
Bryan McDade y’all gonna be brits to me so long as every time the name Britain or England are mentioned in any sentence the first assumption is that it’s just us “stupid Americans” not knowing the difference or getting our facts wrong I’m gonna keep broadly referring to people living in the country as brits.
This performance is world class - fantastic historical knowledge coupled with great comedy. Love it!
He gets a couple things wrong actually.
Random dude: Poland
This guy: WE SOLD THEM
Explain.
When Poland got invaded, the French and the British merely declaring war, then hunker down to protect their own land in the defensive line instead of attacking. Which they could easily do given that Germany moves most of the army’s division to Poland at that time.
slavboi No, he simply couldn’t do anything about. It would have risked the Treaty and the and it was miles from the nearest Western authority. It was the only thing Churchill didn’t sit well with in the Treaty.
They defeated the Duchy of Warsaw though
@@xernax1841 After WW2 had ended (with the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht) the allies gave the control over Poland to the Soviet Union.
They basically sold them off to the Soviets as what was left of the Polish population fought along the British army.
Nobody:
Historians when they get drunk at a party:
This is me haha
Count me in
This joke is so original that i saw it 2 comments up
Adding the ,,Nobody,, was unneccesary
Fuck this meme back to hell.
Al Murray is a History Graduate from Oxford University plus a Doctorate. He started this act to amuse his University friends. His persona on stage is totally an act. He is completely different in real life.
What I love is his incredible grasp of knowledge. But it was great when he was on Top Gear and ratted on about tanks with Clarkson.
If he's a history major he should know the Dutch sailed through Thames all the way to London. Or how the Americans gained their independence.
@@infinitydreamzz But he is also a comedian so he is going to use knowledge for effect and not show other sides of it just for the laugh factor.
@@scootergrant8683 fair enough
@@infinitydreamzz But you did teach me something I didn't know. I mean there are bound to be tonnes of events that people don't know of because the average person only encounters so much. Yet I never knew the Dutch sailed up the Thames.
This guy can spin anything into a positive. I'd like him to live rent free in my head 😂
He does.....dumbass.
Wow Im more impressed by his knowledge than his jokes and thats not a insult.
Some of them are jokes though
He studied history at Oxford, so this stuff is his specialty
@Scott Adam That depends do you believe handing over power back to colonies was an achievement or a determent to the morals of the people of Britain? Too many people its a thing to be proud of as its harder to give away power than to take away power after you have it.
a lot of the things he was saying were wrong but had a similar result, I.e. burkina faso was colonized by the French, the line in South America (why they speak Spanish in Peru) is called the treaty of tordesillas and was signed in 1494, not 1512, and by pope Alexander vi not pope Judas. There were some pretty impressive things in there though
The easiest way to beat someone like this is simply to name a country that no one knows anything about, including most historians, because they're too insignificant to take note of. Like have the Brits ever beaten Vanuatu? Maybe, maybe not. Point is he wouldn't be able to answer cos no one bothers knowing anything about Vanuatu.
This is the guy who started Brexit
B R U H
I'm gonna tell my children this was Nigel Farage
EzzYy
We have now defeated almost all of europe without even having to visit them.
if you create a country out of thin fucking air you've won, well if you create an argument like that out of thin fucking air you've lost
I think he promised the UK will be leave Europe by 2025 and leave the Solar System by 2050.
This guy studied all of history and remembered all of it
@glyn hodges I already assumed that but neet
@glyn hodges basically
It’s only 500 years of history , have you not read a book lol
props on the kaneki pic my g
@@francis3372 thank you
His mind is amazing. So much knowledge. And he makes it fun. Teachers should take note.
Although the bit about the division of South America was a bunch of mumbo jumbo. Got the years and the names completely wrong.
No.....teachers should be accurate and factual..... nothing more, nothing less
Stick to the facts.
This guy is intoxicated and can remember the history of nations better than I can remember what my to do list is for the day.
You remember you made a to do list?
@yeoldebiggetee a what now?
@@TwinkleNZ .
Hi, can anyone pleas tell me where I am?
Rubin Sammich hell
It's nice to see the kid from Bully grew up and became a teacher.
Where is his skateboard though?
Mong
@@peace08011987 Indian
@@skottcoucill8343 ..... why are you saying a ethnicity?
The Germans are not allowed to brag about Hitlers concentration camps why would you guys feel proud of winning a war where your forefathers murdered raped and killed 28000 children in concentration camps?
Let's declare the corona virus a country, so they can defeat it.
The Hate Does Coronavirus need freedom?
@@wildaceds It already has freedom.
The lil skrub does whatever it wants
Lol!
UK: Declares war on virus
Coronavirus: "Listen here, u little shit"
(Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now severely ill from COVID-19)
Their president is sick i see that as a loss
I died when she said "norway" and he went straight for the juggular, thats the funniest stuff ive heard in a while xD
He is correct but England did beat Denmark which had a Personal Union with Norway.
"Canada is our ally, which is a loss for them"
As a Canadian, I can't say I disagree.... 😶
I am not judging since what you mean is quite obvious ,but also keep in mind that there are sorts of people that if you say that as a Canadian will tell you you are racist and stuff like that
@@miltoska9708 I suppose, but I mean it in jest. I mean not to offend, sorry.
@@oriontigley5089 man I'm not offended but yesterday someone argued with me for a similar reason
Same but as an Australian
American war of independence
Him: "Name a country"
Me: "Mongolia"
Him: *nervous sweating*
I back this man to come up with a way to explain it though 😂
probably would've said 'opium war' since china ruled over mongolia at that time
Does Scotland count?
@@alextunneyware Scotland is still trying to wriggle free
Me : Iceland.
Him : You were not supposed to do that.
Prepare yourself, people in the comments have been Googling furiously.
Oh yes
Haitians are the most kickass people in this whole continent. 🇭🇹🇭🇹 They just need to rise out this poverty state. It will happen
Furiously? We know the answers already we just need to do one search for the year 😎
@@mixtapemania6769this whole continent?
You know this is the net and not some land mass?!
Seriously though, how are you guys doing? I know it's not good there atm, I hope things get better.
Anyone who likes Al Murray's work might enjoy his podcast - 'we have ways of making you talk' about WWII on which I believe he wrote his doctorate and made a TV series.
If you can understand him without subtitles you immediately get a degree in English
Im mexican
I studied English with a scottish guy who has The most broken English in my high school and i grateful with it, i understand *EVERYTHING*
Give me my degree
Really? Maybe he speaks fast but nothing difficult tbh.
@@mixderman2461 idk i had difficulties bro, also english is my second language so yeah
Michael BA77 I understood him clearly and English is also my second language
Highschool teachers- "You college Proffesor isnt going to be as chill as us"
College history Proffesor - *spits information with a beer in his hand*
True. We oftenly smoke weed with some of our professors
College professors are straight up the most chill kinds of teachers there are*
* - exceptions apply
I had an algebra teacher that smelled of Bourbon 🥃 everywhere he want, it was interesting learning how to solve for X & Y while he slurred the equation..
I don't think I've ever met anyone less chill than a highschool teacher
He sounds like thor when screaming "another one".
While playing Fortnite.
South Sudan.
*Enters pub*
_"The British did it better."_
*Doesn't elaborate any further*
*Leaves*
Comedian: *makes joke*
Americans: TF DID YOU JUST SAY
Ryanhasmanners nobody is saying that
No one here has said that
No one asked
Lotus Gang , except they are, I’m not exactly ganna post something for no reason, of course there are people that have said that
Neon except they are, I’m not exactly ganna post something for no reason, of course there are people that have said that
“They see that as a win, we see it as a lucky escape.”
Spittin straight facts.
As someone who lives in America that's to true
Yeah, true. If it weren’t for domestic issues and logistical problems at the time they probably would’ve won
I read it exactly when he said it, lol
Lol the war lasted a decade. They lost to colonies of scrubs and a few French troops. That's not a lucky escape. That's winning a war.
The One In The Middle It’s a shithole. It’s a lucky escape because we don’t have to put up with it as much as we would if we still had control over it. That’s victory enough for us.
If this guy was my world history teacher, I would definitely paid more attention.
P.Z. Arnott you’d be to busy pissing yourself to learn anything
Ginger Beard Wow, your comment says a lot about our society...
Lol Lol no you’re just a pussy
I had a history teacher who was awesome. During passing period he had loud music playing. He also has either point pong, mini golf, or mini foosball to play until the period started. He was sort of a hype man and made a big deal about things when he was teaching. He had this enthusiastically serious tone of voice that made it very enjoyable to pay attention to. He was very big on class participation and sometimes we would play class games to give us a break from the usual lessons. Sometimes when he was mad he would flip desk while being very vocal about his disappointment with the class. He would then use it as a chance to teach us. Most things he did was very over the top but in a fun way. Some students were scared of him but other loved his style of teaching. I learned a lot from his class and I've never had a teacher come close to his teaching style.
No you wouldn't.
Brilliant. Knowledge of British history is unparalleled, even with a pint in his hand 😂
Because he's a historian
Switzerland: "always been neutral"
this guy: *"I'll pretend i didn't hear that"*
Pretty sure Switzerland fought for France in the napoleonic wars
@@gorillainabikini266 switzerland became a sister state of the french republic so technically yeh
Liechtenstein. The british didn't defeat them.
@@gorillainabikini266 as mercenaries. There wasnt much switzerland(at the state it was in then, it was literally the battle ground in the french revulotionary wars: Battle pf Zürich as example) could do against cray cray Bonaparte.
Btw fun fact, France(Napoleon) still has a debt in the village I come from. MF didnt pay his food
Well, technically San Marino has always been neutral
He knows his history. Clever guy.
Oxford graduate in History and Military History. Look on YT for his serious documentaries.
Except Uganda and Burkina Faso weren't German colonies
@@gazhevskiHe must be thinking of neighbouring Tanzania then? So, apart from the actual facts, he knows his stuff.. 😁
@@andrewemery8495 he knows his stuff well enough to win any pubquiz
Never heard of a dumb comedian
I like how he would make his case with Switzerland
World war 2 British, American and German fighter craft were shot down within Swiss airspace, multiple bombings of towns, forcing Switzerland to withdraw as a neutral party, thus creating the Geneva convention.
How bout the normans and the battle of Hastings
US 🇺🇲 fought war against Switzerland 🇨🇭 during WW2......
Napolionic wars. Switzerland was an ally of France.
João Rodolfo Alves they were a puppet state that revolted, which caused napoleon to send the grand armeè to squash it which worried the European powers
Absolute sense with comedy al is one of the best ever to do comedy seen him live twice
The first dude is like “Germany!”, like have you never taken a history class my dude
Edit: calm down dudes 6K likes is too much
Or he was prompting an easy answer to get him started
Then the next 2 guys say Argentina (almost the most recent example) and France.....
they are planted in the audience to set the ball rolling.
Frying Pan Llama do you honestly think England defeated Germany in ww2, they were absolutely demolished, But the brits still go on about Dunkirk and how fantastic they were. It was literally a mass retreat. The Americans had to step in to save them.
@Liam C Nope.
I love that when they bring up America and Canada he basically says
“It didn’t count” lmao
USA is 1-1-0 to UK. Just saying
@Zeus 2nd best country the first is sealand
@@zacharyfelder6604 no the first best is petoria get your fucking facts straight
Well they owned Canada and they have the Queen's face on their money so that's kind of a win my dude
USA is 2-0 to the UK, this man is crazy
ᵀʰᵉʸ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵍᵒᵗ ᴱᵗʰᶦᵒᵖᶦᵃ.
Italy did
@@lenzschwarze Italy got Eritrea, which is a separate country.
Bethel Mesfun Italy did get Ethiopia, Abyssinian Crisis 1935
@@bugofcake wait you're right
@@Pondo11037 italy got eritrea, somalia, libya and abissinia (ethiopia)
POV: the history teacher forgets it’s a school night and does 4 lines of crack at 2 am
**Country minding their own business**
Britain: it’s free real estate
Hardly minding their own business. Spain and France started it first. We thought we should give them a head start
If Britain attacked you then you probably did something wrong.
You invaded our country
Uk.:do you know how little that narrows it down?
That’s jokes
UK really did get around
Will Manley we are the equivalent of “hi I’m your new neighbour”
"You took everything from me" I don't even know who you are.
@@SeriesofClu how did you end up here go work on part 6
Why didn’t anyone say Afghanistan, he would’ve lost lmao
Nah that was just an away day
@Pasha Staravoitau if you have to say it like that they lost
@Pasha Staravoitau if that's the case then America didn't exactly lose in Vietnam.
@Kezzban pretty sure they invaded Normandy in ww2 ;)
Or America
For my Filipino bros.
Just like when Al Murray said the British defeated Spain with the Battle of the Armada in 1588, The Brits defeated the Philippines through Spain, not only through the Battle of the Armada, but also when British troops and its Navy sailed from the British Raj, and took control of Manila and Cavite from Spain during the Seven Years' War, in 1762 to 1764.
But they were expelled using guerrillas and they lose more soldiers and money than the spaniards after left Manila lol 😂
Guy: Peru!
Speaker: What language do they speak in Peru?
Guy: pOrTUguESe
Ethiopia was well armed and had a ruling family, Italy used chemical weapons and superior armaments to target and destroy strategic assets and depose the monarchy
@@nickchristensen8945 Yeah but what happened in the end?
The Living God H.I.M. Haille Selassie was immortalized in Bob Marleys music while Mussolini was murdered by his own people.
Bruh.
@@irieite9666 I thought Mussolini hanged himself near a gas station lmao.
@@nickchristensen8945 *They never got Ethiopia*
I wanted someone to yell out "Iceland" so badly.
The cod war was the UKs most devistating defeat, apart from the 2016 euro cup.
Bro same
Iceland was occupied by UK during WW2
But if it doesn't count, than multiple Danish defeats at the time when Iceland was Danish do
The UK occupied Iceland in WW2 to prevent Germany from occupying it, ironic I know. But the point is that he would have counted this as a win for sure, since the icelandic government was against the invasion until the british set foot on the island, thats when Iceland basically did nothing to stop it.
Uk have defeated Iceland multiple times, cod war wasnt the only one
I am curious to see what he would say to Mongolia.
United States: “You call that a defeat, we call that a lucky fkn escape!”
Can’t blame you there man 😂
Seriously by all statistical outlooks america shouldve been wiped off the face of the earth
Spidercon Prime France did it
@pinkchicken and 300,000 Continental Troops.
@pinkchicken :3
@pinkchicken and the Dutch, everyone always forgets the Dutch, they had a navy the size of France and Britain combined at the time which made it the most powerful nation in the ocean.
Dudes an Oxford educated history graduate, btw 😏
pub landlord is just his character of a patriotic barman from London.
Why are people taking this seriously? You do know he is a comedian right?
Brittan did do all this
I think the war for penguins made that clear
This isn't that far from the truth.
A lot of sensitive insecure people who don't understand comedy around these days.
@@princeprocrastinate6485 no mostly it's people not finding jokes funny. See if your a good comedian you'll make people laugh not boo.
To all those who dont think this is just a character Al plays, this shows the true knowledge and genius of the Oxford graduate behind the Guv'nor!
His 3 part show on Germany made that very clear.
Genius ? I like the guy, but
@British Teeth we conquered you paddies in 1169, so there Frank.
@@vulgarresponse7080 Yeah but the Paddies are a republic now, so that didn't last. I am a plastic Paddy myself. My parents took leave of their senses and moved to England before I was born. However I did vote to leave the EU.
@Chris Jonhson is he a millionaire? 😂 I'm sure that's not the only thing you got wrong
As someone thats loved beer and military history, this was porn
Taylor Baldwin don’t quit your day job then because if you believe England defeated Germany you know nothing about history lol
@@johnjingleheimerschmitt9356 What are you babbling about sir? his comment just expressed that he enjoyed the video and you had to barge in here with your riff-raff behaviour.
You never defeated Sweden....while we invaded you. Sweden has never been invaded....
Rojava Bashur it wasn’t Sweden it was the vikings
@@sniff_3512 Same thing.
He needs to bring out a book where he gos through every country in alphabetical order.
Roman Empire called, they said they want to play this game with you.
british left the chat
I think that goes along the same lines of Italians pal
@@ethanadams1165 lmao, the roman empire is not the same as modern italy.
@@kevinbjorkman7225 the joke went right over your head didnt it?
Ethan Adams or it was a shitty joke
He's actually a historian, as you could have guessed
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I fact-checked the startling claim "We (Great Britain/United Kingdom) have defeated every single f***ing country in the world at war." And there are 92 countries Great Britain/United Kingdom has not "defeated" "at war." I put them all into a document. docs.google.com/document/d/1634G1H18_gteDFu3nvDnCdA8lOE7S9nxt41h9iXWvd4/edit?usp=sharing
@@ivanland3789 bet your fun at parties. He is a comedian
@@owenmills1596 Yup. A comedian who was completely wrong about everything. It was a good bit tho.
@@ivanland3789 but he wasnt completely wrong. He just bent some facts to make the joke. Like war of independence, technicality we lost but he made it sound as if we won by losing. Especially with today's america
"Finland!"
_"Finland?_ That's a made-up cuontry!"
The Soviets got their asses handed to them by the finnish, my guy.
@Dwarov 1 crashed and crashed. There were no economy here. We were just farmers and lumberjacks. Sometimes at the same time.
@Dwarov 1 ''crashed the finnish economy'' you said. I said that there was not much to crash
@Dwarov 1 very true
@Dwarov 1 30 % of economy? You mean state budget, GDP or some other measurable figure? The greatest losses in the war were blood and soil. The land loss was "only" 10% but that included the best part of Finland.
The reparations actually helped us as the process required the expansion of steel industry which was one major reason the country managed to not only get back to its' pre-war stage but greatly beyond.
Putting his claim factually, of the 193 countries listed by the UN, Britain has invaded or fought conflicts in 171 of them. That's about 93%, so he's not far off the mark.
Ah, so you're a historian. Name every year.
😂
Oh boy, here we go.... 1(BCE) ,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17.....
The most underrated comment I have ever seen.
About 5 billion bce - present
Felisberto matador de raposa technically no, because BCE is reverse, it doesn’t start at 1
This was impressive. The roundabout ways to victory made it even better.
sportsnut198 theirs still like 10 we have never had a war
Paige F We would defeat them to
Darth Nihilus true
Sweden
Sweden has never lost a war to the British
Being funny when you’ve got a set to deliver is one thing. Being funny when you have no idea what country you’re going to be talking about next is another level. He’s sharp.
The fact that Britain history is full of colonialism and terrorism and this British guy tells the civilizations they have f*cked up, with a smile on his face, is funnier. more of a trajicomedy than "comedy"
@@dmrknbld well, dark humor is a thing ya know
@@flyingdart9819 and it's damn brilliant
@@lancetheking7524 agree
@@dmrknbld It's hardly supposed to be a deep and meaningful examination of how British influence has both positively and (mostly) negatively affected the world, it's a quick comedic bit in which he flexes his knowledge of world history to support his comedic reasoning for how the British have beaten every country in a war at some point or another.
And you can tell the non-Brits by how seriously they take this satirical stand-up comedy 🤦♂️
Person: *names country Great Britain hasnt defeated*
This guy: ah one person from that country lost to me in the card game war, so basically we have defeated them.
Actually butan was never been invaded in its history
He's a comedian. Keep your panties out of a bunch
He is a comic ffs...
@@icicleman0479 It was a joke, im really sorry I offended you.
I wish someone wouldve said Switzerland
Lighten up, hell I'm an American and I think this is hilarious. Man knows his stuff, I can commend that.
Finally, someone in the comments with some sense
He went to Oxford.
Well, not exactly. Burkina Faso was never a German colony.
Same brother. I hate ignorant Americans who think we kicked Great Britain’s Arse. We got lucky our founding fathers we’re just as crazy... but cheers 🍻
He called burkina faso a german colony which they where not, they where a french colony. Easy to win arguments if you pull stuff out of your ars
Uganda wasn't part of the German empire, he confuses it with Tanzania. Burkina Faso was part of the French empire so it was never conquered by the British empire.
Don't make the people of Uganda mad coz you get em Ugandan knuckles
Does United Kingdom liberation of Burkina Faso count I’m pretty sure that Uganda was part of British empire.
France was allied to England and liberated during the second world war, as we have established, being an ally to the UK counts as being defeated AND if you re-establish the nation you might even have to give it to them afterall.
The british empire beat france, therfore they beat the french colonies, just see his answer to Peru
Tirewrench They never defeated France when they had that colony. Britain has never invaded Burkina Faso, thus confirming that Britain has not, in fact, defeated every country in the world. The same applies to Thailand, Philippines, Ethiopia, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, etc.
*"Used to be vikings, now they're Norwegians. That's a fucking collapse, isn't it?"*
Managed to get a surrender? *we've won*
Signed a peace treaty? *we've won*
Defeated their colonizers? *we've won*
Never even fought them before? *we've won*
Lost to them??? *WE'VE WON*
THERE IS NO LOSS IN MY VOCABULARY
We Americans learned from the best
Lost? we didn't lose, we merely failed to win!
@@kellerweskier7214 We didn't lose in Vietnam! It was a tactical retreat!
@@erikho6936 Its the equivalent of stopping a fight because your wife says no sexy time if you keep beating the other guys ass 😂
We have defeated all them countries! - north Vietnam farmers: that’s cute.
Well if I were him I would point out how they were part of the French empire and I refer to my previous statement
Russian Federation: *laughing in nukes*
What about portugal
Vietnam belonged to France when England beat them.
@yeoldebiggetee Operations arent wars
I'm surprised no one asked about Vietnam or Afghanistan.
Or Ireland
Should have asked Switzerland
The ultimate neutral country
@@josephkane2312
Should have asked Switzerland
The ultimate neutral country
@@SBImNotWritingMyNameHere not that ultimate... Remember that time when the French crown buy some swiss mercenaries to protect herself from a bunch of parisians protesters who came to Versailles to ask for f*cking bread ? They should've eat some brioche instead !! >
Or mongolia
I don't think England ever had a war against Poland, but they sure as hell let Poland down against the germans, so if he sees a lack of support as a victory i guess they won against Poland too
Edit: according to google Poland and England did indeed never have a direct war with eachother, but they were at some point on opposing sides of a war and Polish troops landed on english soil and "ransacked atleast one city".
England let Poland down how exactly?
@@deangreen2567because they made a silly promise to protect them from Germany while being on the other side of Europe, thereby starting ww2, and after the war it fell into the hands of the Soviets. Can’t blame the British though, they’re not all powerful.
@@mrsentencename7334 No, they didn’t. Britain (and France) made a promise to intervene and go to war with Germany should Germany launch an invasion campaign against Poland. The word ‘protect’ was never used, as Britain and France were not in a position to protect a country larger than their own, halfway across the European continent. Britain and France kept their promise, and entered the conflict as soon as Hitler turned his attention to Poland. Not to mention that the Soviet Union had invaded Poland from the other side, which only complicated the issue from the perspective of the British and French - who STILL entered the conflict to keep their promise with Poland regardless.
"They see that as a win, we see that as a really lucky escape" I mean, he's not wrong
Graf von Lotzing ever heard of a joke
@Graf von Lotzing r/wooosh
@Graf von Lotzing the rothschilds own the banks
@@5gfriesyourbrain563 and they are owned by the queen
ANZACS VS TURKEY
Hr-hrm... Remember that time when we scandinavians turned half of britain into a colony of ours? Good times.
Lots of english words come from the norse language when we used britain as our personal plunder and rape holiday spot in the viking age. For example “bag” which comes from “bagge”. And now, we skandis (at least most of us) have gone full circle and adopted the word “bag” back again.
The Swedish-Norwegian kingdom sided with Napoleon.... and you know how that went...
No. I don't remember that. Is that the equivalent to "i was a great ball player in high school".
There's an anime about that......
Which we then broke away from and arguably ended the Viking era in 1066. But still respect the last kingdom and Vikings was a very good watch
Him: name a country
Me: Vietnam
Him: sweats profusely
Vietnam was a French colony. Since the brits won against France, might aswell call it a victory for the uk
@@noahpimentel9341 actually the French only started invading Vietnam in 1858, way after Waterloo. However; right after WW2 the Brits did land on Vietnamese soil to accept the surrender of the Japanese troops there.
Vietnam was on a technicality a Japanese territory during WW2 right?
Imagine if someone said Israel
@@juanpaco3226 well on a technicality most of Israel is Palestine. And we helped Israel to invade Palestine. So according to the logic that this comedian is following you could count that.
The one about Norway was bullshit tho’. Scandinavians still technically own their asses
English teacher: The listening test won't be that hard.
The listening test:
@Allen Jinu the accent is hard to understand for non - brits
@Allen Jinu yeah when you are not english then yeah it is very hard to understand without the subtitle after all we are not used to it
@@katakurithecalamity9840 well i can understand it pretty well
@@prodydy2738 As a Canadian, not difficult at all - especially compared to some of the accents that come out of rural scotland and ireland
@@prodydy2738 as a german. I understood everything
He couldn’t give an answer on Norway, could he... One of three countries that actually invaded
britain... ..succsessfully.
Battle of stamford bridge though
Yep. Stamford bridge :(
Stamford bridge- when we killed their king
Invading and winning are distinctly separate things
@@mrcaboosevg6089 As for invading, britain tried to invade Norway during the napoleonic wars, though every landing as far as I know was beaten back
I love that depressed "oh" after that bloke is told "no they speak spanish in peru" by this heavily intoxicated textbook.
He's like Damien (The Anti-Christ) in The Omen Part2 answering all the historical questions of the teacher.
Clearly some people in these comments don't know what a joke is.
But it ain't a joke though, Britain did do all this.
It’s not a joke it’s a comedy set
Gotta love the Commonwealth, once and Empire always an Empire.
When someone like yourself can't justify what a joke and a defeated country on war is like 🤦♂️
No actually I don't think that was clear at all.
Jesus Christ these comments. He’s a COMEDIAN. It’s the whole point😂
Safe to say we beat every country at having a sense of humour.
You obviously don't understand the english psyche. Most people see these as jokes they think it's a history lesson !!
Your comment is my safe space among the other idiotic comments 😆
As a Japanese I will allow this because it's funny and anything that's actually funny is good
No it's not
Being a comedian or whatever he is doing doesn't give u licence to give partial view of recorded history
What kind of job do you think you'll get with a history degree?
This guy:
I wonder that my self
@@jackj9816 - you could do what he does and spice up the library.
Diksaca Yehovah true haha
Imagine if he became the new defense against the dark arts teacher
“War of Independence...we call that a lucky f*ckin escape.” Absolutely hilarious!🤣🤣🤣
For Canada, he could've gone
"Ya know Quebec, it's part of Canada now. We took it over some 3 hundred years in the fields of Abraham.
So technically, we've beaten Canada before it even was country, ANOTHER!"
You forgot the emphasis on another, it's spelt "Anuva"
true, and the Brits kicked the french out of majority of Canada, that's why only Quebec speaks french. Cause Brits didn't kick french out of Quebec as it's originally a French colony
@Top Secret but the Brits still destroyed the French and kicked them out of most of Canada so yk
@@Robodog334 you'd be suprised the amount of French speakers in northern Ontario.
@@Robodog334 New Brunswick speaks French.
‘What language does they speak in Peru?’
‘Portuguese’
‘No, Spanish’
‘Oh.’ 😂
An actual intellectual: "Peruian"
The guy who said portuguese is really stupid omg
@@OIlegaul don't call him stupid. He just wasn't sure.
@@Skgoesalltheway If you're talking to me, perhaps take a deep breath and realize I was making a joke.
@@OIlegaul well to be fair Peru is not a very popular country or as well know as some other countrys
They didn't even try to give him hard ones. Germany???? That one was free.
The British Empire legit just saw Australia and was like we’ll dump our prisoners there
Used to be america before they conquered Australia and then used it for prisoners...
America didnt want any more at the time 🤣
@Alan Patridge 1770 captain James cook claimed the west coast of Australia (new south Wales) in the name of the crown. Fist come first serve job done.
Learn all about it in Peter pan 😉
@@dragzgaming New South Wales is on the East Coast mate
@@Xorthane explains alot
14 April: Coronavirus declares itself a country
15 April: UK defeats Coronavirus in war
Well you're surely losing that war.
Tristan LJ it’s not a fucking country yet is it lad?
@@tristanlj3409 And makes it an Overseas Territory
@@kob6912 well, it's been the 15th of April hasn't it, lad?
Tristan LJ it’s also been the 14th and it didn’t declar itself a country. Allow it man
I hope he doesn’t set questions for history exams.
Why? On the contrary, it would make it a piece of cake... Just say "GB is the greatest country who saved the world by conquering it..." to any question...
There ya go, A+
battle of stamford bridge we defeated the vikings
Clever and witty, very entertaining!
I love it when comedians project a persona that seems, well, stupid and ignorant, when, in fact that couldn’t be further from the truth... e.g. Al Murray, Jim Jefferies etc.
You do know what google and the process of cramming for an exam is right?
This guy is very punchable.
Yep. Apart from Jim Jeffries.
cabletie69 Do you mean you think Jim Jefferies actually is stupid or ignorant?
@@CutcliffePaul jim jeffries is a scumbag
He's pretty good with his history. but Uganda and Burkina Faso were never german. Uganda was close to german east africa but Burkina faso was very french
Indian Slats it’s a comment section to comment about the video that’s what he’s doing he didn’t need you to ask for him to comment
Davey so are u
@@jaydon232 he is too but did he lie ? XD
Dewiacyjny never said he did XD
Indian Slats yo when?
Well, i think the British never defeated Portugal, because of their alliance.
Oh wait, being allies means that Portugal already lost...
Actually the invincible armada was comprised mainly of Portuguese ships and seamen thanks to the Iberian Union at that time in effect. And Portugal and England were indeed at war at the time.
The Portuguese did pack quite the punch actually and eventually broke off from the Spanish yet again. Not before inflicting defeats on the Spanish, English, Dutch and French. Not to be messed with.
Eventually they gave up all of that and focused on Bacalhau, beaches and Ronaldo.
@@bigtuga4ever wow you know more about my country than I, lol
I'm Portuguese-American and honestly? The more I learn about my heritage the more I learn Portugal is a really fascinating country. I'm very proud of my heritage. I heard at one time Lisbon was considered the capital of Intrigue. The country made smart and strategic alliances and maintained steady borders to this day. Dont underestimate Portugal my friends :)
@@spellobot I'm an archeologist, it's only right, stay safe you.
Yep it does
when he got to scandanavia he dodged it real smooth
Not much to dodge to be fair. Ooooooo you think the viking invasions count. How naive.
I was waiting for someone to shout "Vietnam", then I remembered former French colony...
Under British governance at the end of WW2 using Japanese troops under British command
@@nickgood8166 doesn't matter anyway, there were two Vietnam wars and we tore them a new asshole to the point of near extinction.
@@ripoutyourintestines5099 no the French got their arse kicked first then the good old USA had a go and got their arses kicked, everybody knows that..
@@intelligentpeople6533 that's exactly what I meant, funny how us Brits won their own war for them, left, then they started losing again, then the yanks got involved and they lost.
@@ripoutyourintestines5099 If only the civilians weren't a bunch of pussies and the higher ups not as much of fucking cocky douchebags, the U.S woulda actually had a better chance.
Britain: we won: Andrew Jackson: I’d beg to differ
Llameeeeee_punch
@Biden’s_Bro 58 that's like saying America won Vietnam...you can win every major engagement but if you gained 0 territory and your enemy is left standing you didn't win.
@yeoldebiggetee but again they gave up what is now the 3rd largest nation in the worst and most powerful so that's basically an L
yeoldebiggetee why the USA held southern Ontario and Lake Erie. And traded again with France when Napoleon came back to power.
Brits fighting Brits. A score draw!
why do people take this seriously.. it’s a JOKE
well lot of ppl died mate, you dont see ppl making jokes about the holocaust at least on youtube
@@colonelaugust1130 you do tho.
@@Tensho_C but only after you thaught me
colonel august and in what part of the speech did he make fun of the people that died? lol. he was naming countries that the british empire beat.. literally world history.. if that upsets you, idk what to say.
@@colonelaugust1130 Yes you do. Why do you think comedy exists? To make us laugh at the bad things so we can live life happy instead of depressed.
00:06 WWII was won by the Russians, the western allies only were beneficiaries of the bitterly won victory of the USSR.
The landing in the Normandy was a part of a race to Berlin, because Eisenhower and Churchill understood that whoever got the Germans on their side would dominate europe.
The British obviously didn't win WWI either. If anything it was a humiliation for the British Empire.
The Battle of Jutland was a phyrric victory at best, the Battle at the Somme didn't change anything but it cost 1 million lifes and the Battle of Gallipoli showed the world that the British Empire could be defeated by what they considered to be a thrid rate power.
0:34 Napoleon was a former emperor at Waterloo, trying a come back, and he would have succeeded had it not been for the Prussians.
Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Leipzig, where no british troops were present after all.
0:50 The Spanish-British War ended with what historians call "Status quo ante bellum", which means that the situation at the tail end was the same as before the war.
The english and by extension the british people were soundly defeated multiple times in history, without losing to foreign powers England wouldn't exist, because the Angles were such a foreign power, as were the Saxons, the Danes and the Normans. Furthermore did the British Empire lose to the Dutch in the Second Anglo-Dutch war.