Who HAVEN'T They Invaded?! Americans React To 'Every Country England Has Invaded: Visualized'

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[DancingLedge]

I’m sure someone has mentioned it in comments, but to paraphrase, to Americans your Independence Day was THE defining moment of your history. To Britain it was a Tuesday

[Escapee]

It started out as a pub crawl and got slightly out of hand.
Sorry about that everyone.

[Evasion]

If you notice Brazil was never invaded it should be noted that the British Portuguese alliance is one of the oldest in the world

[stetrainer]

What Americans don't realise is that in 1776 they only fought off a small percentage of the British. Had the British sent the full navy it would have been a very different story. Let's not forget that the British were also fighting the French and the Spanish at the same time all over the globe

[davidevans]

A big apology to all those countries we missed, , we were busy, but I'm sure we will get around to you in time ;)

[pauldurkee]

You have to understand our makeup, we are a genetic mixture of Ancient Britons( Celts, Picts), Romans, Angles, Saxons, Vikings, Normans. All of these were warriors, and mix them together, it may also explain why we like a drink or two.
Our arch enemies the French used to say, wherever we go in this world, wherever there is enough water to sail a ship, we are sure find the british there waiting for us!! 🇬🇧👍

[baf_mcnab]

The saying used to go ' The Sun never sets on the British Empire', because between the 18th and 20th centuries we had some land or countries under our control where ever the sun was at any time. At its peak, the British empire covered a quarter of the Earth's surface.

[Thomkro]

To give you an idea of how ridiculous our influence has been:

There are currently 7.8 billion people in the world

2.6 billion of them live in the Commonwealth (ie nations that were once part of the British Empire), and that doesn't count the 400 million or so in the US, let alone the ones we invaded but never ruled in Europe.

So if we count the US, effectively 38% of the current population of the world live in countries that once had our King or Queen as head of state.

And you could fit the whole of Britain nearly four times into Texas.

Mind-blowing really.

[jonny]

The search for tasty and spicy food is a great motivator. That's why we gave up so quickly in North America, the food is shite!🤣

[hamilton]

The Falklands were never invaded by the British, they were settled as empty islands!

[grenvallion]

You'll love the documentary done by Jeremy clarkson on how hard it is to get the Victoria cross

[malcolmbell]

It's so amazing when you consider how small the UK was

[philhallbrook]

From being basically barbarians on a tiny island at the edge of the world we didn't do so bad... Bit hard on the folk we gave a kicking to though
And hey guys, we won the final round 1812 etc. You lot sued for peace ☮️

[ianjardine]

This video gives a big clue why Britain didn't send reinforcements during the revolutionary war. Despite Americans believing that war was the most important war ever the British army had bigger fish to fry mainly a global conflict with the two largest empire's who were funding and training the ungrateful traitors who'd caused the war which necessitated a rise in trade tariffs.

[janetstorey]

I offer no apologies. The sun never set on the British Empire. Britain gave much more than it took, including the rule of law, the end to slavery and the industrial revolution which began the road to the technologies we take for granted.

[jameshughdalton]

As a British person, watching you guys react to this video fills me with shame. On behalf of all British people I whole heartily apologise for all the countries we missed :(

[Cheezsoup]

You didn't really "kick our butts". Yes we were made to retreat but we were fighting on several fronts AND you had help from the French .(LaFayette all that lot)and some indigenous people (last of the Mohicans gives insight into that), and America (US) at that time was only the 13 colonies(mainly farmland and wide open spaces) it was nothing like the powerhouse America (US) is today.
Maybe if we had realised how powerful America (US) was to become we would have paid more attention.

[Kestrel]

You also need to bear in mind that in 1776, Britain was at war with France, Spain and on-and-off the Dutch AT THE SAME TIME. Without the MASSIVE assistance of the French, the US Revolutionary War would have been an easy win for the British Empire. Britain was simply spread too thinly and had to make some hard choices: fight the insurrection in the colonies or risk an invasion at home and the potential loss of very lucrative assets elsewhere in the empire. Based on the fact that following the decision to abandon the fight in the colonies, soundly defeating the French, Spanish AND Dutch, as well as pushing back an American invasion of Canada in 1815 (even burning down the Whitehouse and eating the US President's dinner at his own dining table) it seems like a pretty sound decision.

As for WHY, the best comment I've ever heard was: "Britain invaded the entire world in search of spices only to discover they didn't like any of them." :)

The story of TEA is actually REALLY fascinating and still a point of great consternation to the Chinese who consider what happened to be, essentially, corporate espionage. Look up the story of the Scottish botanist, Robert Fortune and how he essentially stole the secrets of cultivating tea from China.

[jim-bob-outdoors]

What can I say, us Brits have always liked a good foreign holiday. 😎😎

[jillosler]

Some we 'discovered' and were the first to colonise - like the USA and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, etc. You have to remember that at it's height the race to discover and control the world was between England (not a Union at the time), Spain, France, Portugal and the Netherlands. And what everyone conveniently forgets is (1) England was itself invaded many times before William the Conqueror in 1066, and (2) every country we colonised benefited from it and the majority were given independence when they asked for it - not all of course as you can testify to! BUT your Constitution and Bill of Rights was based on the English Magna Carta written in 1215!!! Do remind me guys, which country has the USA conquered single-handedly???? There has NEVER been another Empire that at one time controlled A QUARTER of the known world.