britain has not invaded 22 out of the worlds 200 countries

[colin1]

At one time a third of the world was the british empire, but there arent actually many countries we haven't invaded.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-invaded-nine-out-of-ten-countries-so-look-out-Luxembourg.html
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[moonzoomer]

More England than Britain as Scotland and Wales was also invaded.

[colin1]

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[Polarbear]

I expect the Romans invaded a larger percentage of the known world than Britain did, and they had a better entertainment industry.
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[colin1]

No I think we invaded more as the few we havent attacked are generally tiny places not worth bothering with like Liechtenstein Uzbekistan etc.

I think our entertainment with radios tvs etc is even better than watching animals eating christians for the few that can get to a venue.

If you want to challenge our supremacy at invading you could suggest the Mongol hordes most of who's invading was done in a brief time period so huge expansion of empire very rapidly. We and the Romans took hundreds of years.

The American empire is done more through messing in other peoples politics and civil wars.
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[Paivi]

Just a note, the author seems to include Finland when she was still part of the Russian Empire, so didn't really exist as a country to invade. Suomenlinna Fortress outside Helsinki, which the English & the French attacked in 1855 wasn't technically even part of the Grand Duchy of Finland, but of Russia, forming part of the fortifications to protect St Petersburg. In hindsight, it wasn't a very good fort, as it never fired a shot...

Since Finland got her independence in 1917, Britain has not invaded, although Churchill, did, declare war on Finland in 1941, ironically enough on our Independence Day. Not sure we appreciated the irony... But all was well, as Churchill did apologise for the declaration of war after the event. He had to do it as Mr Stalin demanded it, and he hadn't found his guts yet...
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[Ed Case]

Can't understand how we missed so many, bit of an oversight that !.

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[haroman666]

What would constitute as an invasion these days?
If we went and raped all the locals and then lived in their houses?

Isn't that what half of the early 20's lads do in Ibiza/Kavos etc etc?
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[Paddy Blake]

Invading a country and taking control is two different things.

[bazza]

That's some serious global bitch-slapping. No wonder the rest of the world resents us so much.

Pity we're such a country of weepy milksops these days.
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