alpine_saint Posted 4 November, 2012 Share Posted 4 November, 2012 made me laugh : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-invaded-nine-out-of-ten-countries-so-look-out-Luxembourg.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 4 November, 2012 Share Posted 4 November, 2012 We invaded Iceland. Never knew that. Their political objection was no match for 750 barely trained soldiers....... puts their economic collapse into context! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 4 November, 2012 Share Posted 4 November, 2012 made me laugh : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-invaded-nine-out-of-ten-countries-so-look-out-Luxembourg.html Shame he couldn't spell 'countries' properly! (in the article, not in the link) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 4 November, 2012 Share Posted 4 November, 2012 It's stretching the term 'invaded' somewhat. They've even included the odd piracy raid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latter day saint Posted 4 November, 2012 Share Posted 4 November, 2012 Haha, thats brilliant ! not bad going for a little island of shopkeepers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anothersaintinsouthsea Posted 4 November, 2012 Share Posted 4 November, 2012 I'm guessing plenty of those countries were under a very different guise when "invaded". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippineSaint Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Lets get all the Pink bits back Im doing my bit for the Philippines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suomi Saint Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Inaccurate....Britain has never invaded Finland. Load of tosh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippineSaint Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Inaccurate....Britain has never invaded Finland. Load of tosh. Britain Declared war on Finland in December 1941 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suomi Saint Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Yes, but Britain did not invade Finland.....study the facts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippineSaint Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Yes, but Britain did not invade Finland.....study the facts. After the declaration of war There would have been some military presence if only a few spies and saboteurs which is what the article is calling for not a full blown invasion is required to be included in the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Surely even in these straitened times we could have the Marshall Islands and get another one off the "to-do" list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suomi Saint Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 There was no military presence in Finland other than a few British stragglers who had actually volunteered to fight for Finland against the Russians. Britain declared War on Finland as a token gesture, because Finland allied with the Germans to reclaim land that they lost in the Winter War (39/40) to the Russians. Churchill ordered one bombing raid where the RAF deliberately dropped bombs in Helsinki harbour. This was to placate Stalin, because the Russians had suffered huge losses fighting the Finns, and by this time were also at War with Germany. Hardly a British invasion don't you think? Christopher Lee of acting fame was one of the volunteers who went to Finland. Probably, spying on the Russians. None of the volunteers saw action as the Winter War was already over when they arrived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippineSaint Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Surely even in these straitened times we could have the Marshall Islands and get another one off the "to-do" list? I am pretty certain Henry 8th sent some people to sort the Vatican out as well that could come off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 5 November, 2012 Author Share Posted 5 November, 2012 There was no military presence in Finland other than a few British stragglers who had actually volunteered to fight for Finland against the Russians. Britain declared War on Finland as a token gesture, because Finland allied with the Germans to reclaim land that they lost in the Winter War (39/40) to the Russians. Churchill ordered one bombing raid where the RAF deliberately dropped bombs in Helsinki harbour. This was to placate Stalin, because the Russians had suffered huge losses fighting the Finns, and by this time were also at War with Germany. Hardly a British invasion don't you think? Christopher Lee of acting fame was one of the volunteers who went to Finland. Probably, spying on the Russians. None of the volunteers saw action as the Winter War was already over when they arrived. Well, I've just ordered the book, so I will give feedback on how many of the countries sound a bit tenuous. I am having trouble recall when the British invasion of Austria was too. EDIT forget that, its obviously the occupation of Carinthia and Styria after WW2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddisalegend Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Prehaps a more acurate title would have been "Countries the British have got a bit narked with" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 I am pretty certain Henry 8th sent some people to sort the Vatican out as well that could come off I reckon the two of us could manage those philippine, when do we start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 5 November, 2012 Author Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Prehaps a more acurate title would have been "Countries the British have got a bit narked with" Maybe the other way round works too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 5 November, 2012 Author Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Didnt we square up to Guatemala in 1972 over Belize ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 made me laugh : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-invaded-nine-out-of-ten-countries-so-look-out-Luxembourg.html is this a 'To Do' List? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 5 November, 2012 Author Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Take away Central Africa and Central Asia, and that is a very short list indeed. Both those areas are land-locked and worthless in terms of trade, which probably explains our lack of interest in them historically. In this context the Ivory Coast's oversight is interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippineSaint Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Take away Central Africa and Central Asia, and that is a very short list indeed. Both those areas are land-locked and worthless in terms of trade, which probably explains our lack of interest in them historically. In this context the Ivory Coast's oversight is interesting. Ivory Coast was left alone as the French had it and the belligerent locals were giving them a hard time so were basically on our side all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 When did we invade Japan? Funny, they don't seem to remember British rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WindsorSaint Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 When did we invade Japan? Funny, they don't seem to remember British rule. Didn't we send some warships to protect trade in the 17th century? Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 I can't find anything on that and certainly not an invasion. The Japanese seem to know nothing of it. This may be a more accurate map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearsy Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 If I'm reading the article right tokyos, i think people going there on holiday or whatever counts as invasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deano6 Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 I can't find anything on that and certainly not an invasion. The Japanese seem to know nothing of it. This may be a more accurate map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire Why don't you buy the damn book and find out, rather than idly speculating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Call me old fashioned but I think if you invade a country they should at least have the decency to know that they have been invaded! Look at Spain, they can tell we invaded them in the 70's because we got rid of all their culture, except for flamenco dancing on Tuesday nights and replaced it with our culture, bingo and Karaoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippineSaint Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Didn't we send some warships to protect trade in the 17th century? Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2 That will all be in the book Shogun by that well known historian James Clavell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddisalegend Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 When did we invade Japan? Funny, they don't seem to remember British rule. The examples cited seem to show anyone we had a war with counts as an invasion on that basis ww2 would count. I suppose Burma was part of the Japanese empire after they took it off us so when we took back we had technically invaded the Japenese empire...tenous:lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 5 November, 2012 Author Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Well, I am genuinely curious about some nations and how they have been designated "invaded". So I've ordered the book to read, rather than sneer/speculate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Britain invented 90% of the food in the world, before we can people just ate grass. Alpine send me £9.99 plus p&p and I will send you the book on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stain Posted 5 November, 2012 Share Posted 5 November, 2012 Stop sneering, TS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 6 November, 2012 Share Posted 6 November, 2012 The examples cited seem to show anyone we had a war with counts as an invasion on that basis ww2 would count. I suppose Burma was part of the Japanese empire after they took it off us so when we took back we had technically invaded the Japenese empire...tenous:lol: Assuming Argentina are coloured pink on that map because of the Falklands, by this logic, we didn't invade them, they invaded us. We simply retook our land. Who remembers argentine rule? Send £9.99 plus p&p and I will send you the book all about it. Snearing comes as a free gift for the first 10 orders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddisalegend Posted 6 November, 2012 Share Posted 6 November, 2012 Assuming Argentina are coloured pink on that map because of the Falklands, by this logic, we didn't invade them, they invaded us. We simply retook our land. Who remembers argentine rule? Send £9.99 plus p&p and I will send you the book all about it. Snearing comes as a free gift for the first 10 orders. Actually we did invade what would become Argentina in 1806 and occupied Buenos Aires for 46 days:D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_invasions_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 6 November, 2012 Author Share Posted 6 November, 2012 Assuming Argentina are coloured pink on that map because of the Falklands, by this logic, we didn't invade them, they invaded us. We simply retook our land. Who remembers argentine rule? Send £9.99 plus p&p and I will send you the book all about it. Snearing comes as a free gift for the first 10 orders. Maybe the Argentina issue has more to do with the significant setlling of Welsh people in Patagonia some centuries before. But I dont know, hence it seems the book may be worth a read to follow the author's rationale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 6 November, 2012 Author Share Posted 6 November, 2012 Actually we did invade what would become Argentina in 1806 and occupied Buenos Aires for 46 days:D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_invasions_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata Lets face it, we#ve been having punch-ups all over the place for centuries, and I doubt any of us have a full grasp of our military history, so it seems a bit previous to scoff at this book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 6 November, 2012 Share Posted 6 November, 2012 So we invaded each other. Alps are you saying that settling might be considered invading? Need to know as I would like to put my invasion of Japan down on my CV. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippineSaint Posted 6 November, 2012 Share Posted 6 November, 2012 So we invaded each other. Alps are you saying that settling might be considered invading? Need to know as I would like to put my invasion of Japan down on my CV. Thanks. I have already reclaimed the Philippines we can now safely repaint it pink on the map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 6 November, 2012 Share Posted 6 November, 2012 I know you have had a few conquests Phil and a few hairy encounters but I'm not sure you can put it down as a full on invasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippineSaint Posted 6 November, 2012 Share Posted 6 November, 2012 well an intrusion then surely that counts and some of them were pink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 6 November, 2012 Share Posted 6 November, 2012 An invasion of privacy maybe. But you've served your time for that so lets move on and not dwell on things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippineSaint Posted 6 November, 2012 Share Posted 6 November, 2012 When Alps gets his copy of the book is he going to review it a la Bear to find out where we went wrong and missed a few ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 6 November, 2012 Share Posted 6 November, 2012 Where we went wrong? Always the pessamist eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippineSaint Posted 6 November, 2012 Share Posted 6 November, 2012 Where we went wrong? Always the pessamist eh? I was being optimistic that we could work out how to get the remaining 22 with little loss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 6 November, 2012 Share Posted 6 November, 2012 Nah, he would have given up in Calais saying we didn't have the technical ability to go any further and blamed it on the general and the Scots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 6 November, 2012 Author Share Posted 6 November, 2012 You two make a superb double act. Post #41 is a work of genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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