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Every country needs a hobby

The British army was so impressed and respected Nepali fighting men that they struck a deal to have them join the British army. To this day the Gurkhas are one of the most respected regiment in the British army, and we the British people are very thankful for them, but its a real shame our governments have treated them badly from time to time.

Fighting the French is more of a national hobby.

When you take into account how small Britain really is it makes it even more impressive

My history teacher once told me the British spent 1000 years being invaded, so they spent the next 1000 years invading others

According to a recent Japanese study, 52% of Everything the World takes for granted has come from Britain in the last 400 years.

Two words:- 'Royal Navy' They had the biggest and most impressive navy on the planet.

"It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it."

If you lived in the UK you'd understand why we have such a need to invade warm sunny places.

Hey! We like to travel. Oh and with regards to our not liking the French... they're French, isn't that reason enough.

The comments here are highly entertaining. British humour is just in tune with my own Australian sense of what's funny. I saw a post from a Brit on another channel along the lines of : "You need to understand that we British do everything to piss off the French. That's why we put the London Eurostar (channel tunnel train) terminal at Waterloo" Been chuckling at that for weeks now.

England became so powerful because of its desire to trade and explore. This drove the country to build its navy.

How did the UK get so powerful? Two words: industrial revolution.

Now you know why English is so widely spoken.

How could we pull it off? To quote Blackadder. "Gun beats Spear"

It's simple, we kept getting invaded, got pissed off and went on a thousand year rampage. When we cooled off we gave most of it back so it's all good, right? no harm done?

" Rule the sea, and you rule the world!" The Royal Navy was extremely powerful when our empire was at its greatest height,this was a very important element in our success.

"Ireland had some beef with Britain." And people say us Brits are the masters of understatement.

Britain all the way back has been a warrior nation that has always enjoyed a good scrap .

Yes the British Antarctic Territory was claimed in 1908 and contains a region called Queen Elizabeth Land.

To try and answer your final questions: Britain was one of the first centralised countries in the world, under the Tudors. Being an island, it always had a big navy. The agricultural and industrial revolutions began in Britain. For its size it had a large population. It had a tradition of free thought which led to invention and innovation. It was the first country to utilise steam power for machines and railways. It had a proselytising religion. It was obsessed with trade and international commerce. All these factors led to it punching above its weight from about 1700 to 1900.

How did we do it? Simple. Two words. Bacon sandwiches. You start your day with a bacon butty then there’s nothing you can’t do that day.

"They really do not like the French" In fairness, the feeling is mutual.

It’s a really great question you pose towards the end of your video where you ask why Britain was able to do this whilst other countries were not. It essentially comes down to one key thing: approach to Empire. If you look at the vast bulk of empires throughout history their objective has been to acquire more land and to absorb people. A great example would be empires like the Portuguese and the Spanish where they took all of the wealth they found in terms of gold, silver and jewels etc. and shipped it back to Spain. So once they had exhausted that supply they aren’t left with as many natural resources. The British empire in contrast was built on trade, there was not this initial drive to gain land, it was more a case of creating optimal trade that would grow the wealth of the economy over time. This was done by the least interference possible, only when a rival nation such as France attempted a takeover would Britain then step in more directly. Once Britain was in this situation they then built up the area in terms of creating an infrastructure such as building railways etc. This is also essentially why you tend to find looking globally a much higher proportion of the more developed countries had a British background than say a French or Spanish one, because of these types of foundations and infrastructure.

We were basically the bullied kid for years up until 1066 when we hit puberty and the rest is history

Think how easy your history test is compared to our British test!

I'm just waiting for part 2.....The empire strikes back!

Modern British invasion he referred to is vacationers. It's the most popular holiday destination around 15 million every year

yeah we and the french have hated each other for 900 years and i don't see it stopping anytime soon

"Wonderful country France.... Pity about the French" 😂🇫🇷

A battle close to most Brits hearts is the battle of Agincourt in 1415 where the Brits kicked the frog's ass with a much smaller force. we now know why this happened and it was all to do with mud. Bernard Cornwell wrote three great novels set in this war about an English archer called Thomas of Hookton you really should read them, and I love your stuff I'm finding out a lot of things I didn't know myself.

England: "I was a businessman, doing business".

One silly question from you in there. When talking about invading Mexico you said "How did that go?". ROFL. We are British, we won of course 😘.

We needed someone to play Cricket and Rugby with !.

'I didn't like war until I realised we [the English] were so bloody good at it.' - Ricky Gervais

That's right, World, no need to thank us!

Not "greedy", we just felt the world needed cricket.

"invading spain by the millions every winter" refers to spain being a popular tourism hotspot for us :)

Not bad for our little country, pretty Damn impressive if you ask me lol

There’s no “hatred” of the French; just banter🤗

Essentially England had a crash course in being invaded from 43AD to 1,066AD. After that they had a pretty good idea how invasions worked and were clearly successful in applying their learned knowledge to the rest of the world.

Those 13 stripes on the US flag 🇺🇸 will always represent Britain🇬🇧.

Love the irony of the worlds largest ever dictator state viewing who the other empires invaded.

UK forces in Bosnia were UN peace keeper's, hardly an invasion force!!!

4:15 he means British tourists that goes to Spain each year.

The British weren't greedy they were just doing what every advanced country in the world was doing, it just happened to be the best at it, the American revolution was a civil war Brits fighting Brits. they had a real war going on in Europe and a vote was taken in parliament on if they should send more troops to America it was voted down as it was an unpopular conflict as large parts of America were owed by Brits before the war and continued to be owned after and trade continued, America didn't even bother to tell the French who'd bankrupted themselves.

Anyone born in Hong Kong before the hand over in 1997 still qualifies for British Citizenship as they were at the time of birth British

People esp Irish/Scots conveniently forget that when Ireland was invaded, it was not actually by the ENGLISH rulers, by then it was Norman, due to the invasion of 1066. The Normans were as hated by the English! Hence the stories of Robin hood.

600 miles long and 300 miles wide, yet we owned the biggest empire in the history, and today at any point in 24 hrs the sun never sets on theBritish Empire, the sun is always shining on acountry that still recognises the Queen as their Head of State.

Glad to be British! Best country in the world 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

The English do have a knack of self appreciation, Cecil Rhodes was quoted for saying "Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life."

Only an American wouldn’t count bombing strikes as an invasion.

The British empire had the best navy at the time

Up until the First World War it was British policy to maintain a navy that was bigger and more powerful than the navies of the next two navel powers combined. Their naval supremacy made them virtually unchallenged on the high seas.

Facetious reasoning and ridiculous interpretation of what constitutes an “ invasion “( far to many examples to name) yet you’ve got to give it to the British, they created the modern world ...

The British Empire was the largest empire the world has ever seen. The British Empire covered 13.01 million square miles of land - more than 22% of the earth's landmass. The empire had 458 million people in 1938 - more than 20% of the world's population There is no doubt that Britain was powerful. It used its wealth, its armies and its navy to defeat rival European countries and to conquer local peoples to establish its empire. However, the empire did not just rely on force. In most of the empire Britain relied heavily on local people to make it work.

In our Empire days, we didn't "Invade" anywhere. We pretty much "bought" the Empire. We've had many wars (pre Empire) and invaded loads of European places (country names are mostly meaningless because they all changed...France, Italy & Germany didn't even exist until the 19th century). The Empire was a trade based enterprise...not an invasion world tour.

You're amazed such a small country could amass such a large empire but Rome was just a city and it's empire was pretty impressive!

Innovation war fighting, and mostly - your video is saying 'invaded' when almost all of it was originally based on trade not conquest and the local rulers made plenty of money from trade. You also are fogetting we halted the Slave trade single handed and only stopped paying reparations for what 'we' did (actually my family is Irish) in the 1990s.

France: "..." Britain: "And I took that personally."

so when he says Modern day Belgium, he means the land that is nowdays called Belgium, Belgium was not a country back then

Most of the Caribbean islands weren’t invaded by the British they were found/ discovered by British explorers

I LOVE: Your Reaction and have Subscribed. I also LOVE: Great Britain, The British Isles, Britain,The UK, England, London, South London and South East London and have done for my first 66 wonderful years here :)

no matter what metric you use Britain tops the empire leader board

How did we do it? Well, as any man will tell you, "size isn't everything!".......................................the ancient Englishman.

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"The British and the French have fought a lot.!" I don't know if there was much coverage in the US, but there was a bit of a fuss in Jersey a few weeks ago, where French fishing boats tried to blockade the harbour. There was a video of someone in late C18th/early C19th military uniform firing a musket at the boats (clearly not seriously, due to the distance). Jokes abounded about the 31st Anglo-French war. And no, that's not a typo - THIRTY-ONE wars (which we always win!)

The video is just supposed to show you where we’ve been, invaded and probably conquered.

It would be quicker dear just to list the places that Britain hasn't invaded.

Makes me perversely proud to be British!

The Empire was built on trade not as mistakenly described in the video, by invasion. The video goes pear shaped right from the beginning, the English didn't go into Ireland for no reason, they did so because England was perpetually being 'invaded' by Irish tribes who raped, pillaged and took slaves. The only time Ireland has ever been united was when it was under British rule, prior to that it was a country of warring tribes who were at each others throats all the time. No Empire is ever perfect but its Empires that have driven mankind forward, overall the Empire was more a force for good than bad and gave the world the longest period of peace it has ever known.

there used to be a map in the army museum in chelsea that showed all our battles. basically there is not a part of the world we havent had a fight in lol

Watch the movie “Zulu” this was part of basic training in the Australia Army in the 1970’s, this shows the culture.

How did they do it? The three greatest inventions in human history. 1-Penicillin-(80% of all humans today wouldn't exist without it) 2-The magna carter-(Human rights, Law and order) 3-The company-(Brought the industrial revolution, innovation and technology)

When you talk about invasion, in the words of Al Murray it was "two men on a bicycle'

Having one of the biggest and best navies ever assembled was probably one of thee most important parts of being able to achieve what we did. I noticed a few other islands that were missed from the video, the Falklands being one of them and Diego Garcia.

Lol everyone has a beef with us in the UK. We are use to being hated.

Now you know why the rest of the world loves it whenever we lose at football.

There are a couple of reasons why the British had such a huge empire, the main one is it became a great trading nation and wanted to trade goods with the rest of the works and secondly, in order to support that trade, it developed a huge and modern Navy. Up until the last couple of years of the Second World War it still had the largest Navy in the world.

6:51 In WWII, British soldiers did enter Germany and Austria, so they do count as invasions.

If we’ve missed anywhere, let us know, we’ll get you on the list for when COVID is over🤣

We're just having a brake at the moment, until we can figure out, where to put the lefty, woke, champagne sipping, shushy shushy types 😂

Basically if you hear the flute and drums playing and a British man knocking at your door get the kettle on because he's taking your tea.

Falklands: are we a joke, we are literally still English lol

As you say, As you state: you really need to 'get more familiar with your geography' before launching a 'reaction'; which is littered with a very low level of the world's heritage.

I like watching your reaction posts. You seem more thoughtful than some similar. You may like to know that to this day, the British people are still struggling with the loss of Empire, a century later. Even if many do not understand it, the Brexit vote was a manifestation of that struggle.

How? We were lucky 1 we're an Island nation so we are difficult to invade and this also prevented other nations from intervening. This is why it took so long for France to begin it's empire, because it spent all it's time fighting the Habsburgs in Germany and the Habsburgs in Spain and the Britons in Brittony and the Burgundians in you get the idea. 2 We were a united people. In the sense that all the English identified as English, Scots as Scottish, Welsh as Welsh rather than a united British identity. But still, we didn't have the issues Germany had until 1861 when it was unified or that the Italians had until their unification in 1870. We were able to come together and concentrate on external threats and opportunities. 3 By the 1600s, Britain had built up a decent navy, which grew to a formidable one in the 1700s. All island nations which went on to be successful had to have a navy first, Japan for instance could of never got so far in WW2 if not for it's navy. Just ignore that a large portion of those ships were made in British dockyards... sorry about that. 4 (Most Important) Britain was the first country which industrialised. This inevitably led to new advancements and technologies to be developed. Business grew and from then on, trade became the most important factor in British foreign policy and led to Britain's invasions. Either you traded with Britain (and only Britain) or you would be invaded. And our advancements in technology gave a massive advantage. Almost every other country which went on to start it's own empire had to industrialise first. France, Germany, Italy, Japan(in just 10 years as well) and America had to industrialise in order to gain an advantage for upcoming conflicts. Take the Franco-prussian war. Prussia was the more industrialised of the two and that helped give them an advantage (more/better trains and railways, better manufactured weapons etc) Tied in with the 4th point is that Britain had large and well funded science departments. This helped grow Britain's military as well as other important factors. For example, Britain was exploring Africa's heartland 40 years before the Berlin Conference 1875-6 and the Scramble for Africa, mostly done by David Livingstone. The Conference stated that a country can take any African land it wants but must hand it over if another country can prove it has had pre-existing influence in the contested region. The exploring done by Livingstone gave Britain a head start. In short Britain managed to obtain it's empire due to Being out of the other major powers way Unity Strong navy Industrialising Greater emphasis on Science and technology than most other countries. Hope that helps.

Did you know us in the uk got more castles than any other country in the world

When they discussed the Invasion of Mexico you said: "How did that go??" Me saying to you: Invasion of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia "How did that go?? 😉"

Wow this video made me feel good

The US national anthem is an old British drinking song: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anacreontic_Song Also, we didn't invade anything. We just took back what was ours :P

In short. Earth: *exists* England: MINE!

According to the book "All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To", there are only 22 countries Britain never invaded throughout the course of history. Think this is a better way to view it.

It rains a lot over here in England. It gives us lots of time stuck indoors brewing up scheme's..

Being an Island, the navy is of utmost importance. For the first industrialised nation + The most significant navy, it was a natural conclusion to expand influence across the seas.

Its mad when you think we're just a small island that you can travel from top to bottom within a day by car.. being the centre of the world definitely has its advantages

History is written by the victor! This explains all the blank pages in french history books. 🤭

Britain is the biggest empire in history on all those metrics, so "...countries that were invaded...." YES Britain win, "...amount of land mass..." YES Britain win, and "...amount of people that were under the British rule..." YES Britain win on that metric as well! :)

As many people have mentioned - most of this was possible due to the Royal Navy. In the early days of wooden ships it was vital to have control of ports and facilities to supply/repair ships. Ships were the way that trade was conducted and a strong navy ensured safe passage of traders. It was basically the Royal Navy that policed the world, dealing with pirates and "unfriendly" countries. In fact up until the start of WWII the British Royal Navy was maintained at a strength that ensured it was more powerful than the next 2 largest navies (although it was, by then, at a financial cost that was crippling and unsustainable for the British)