• Onno (VK6FLAB)English
    222·
    4 days ago

    Hmmm.

    When were Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain , Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Austria or Romania invaded by the British?

    • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      18 hours ago
      • Netherlands - Holmes’ Bonfire, 1666, 1944
      • Belgium - Napoleonic wars — Waterloo
      • France - (as England) 1230, 1337-60, 1369-89, 1373, 1415-53, 1562, (as Britain) 1794, 1795, 1813, 1815, 1944
      • Germany - 1914-18, 1944-5
      • Spain - 1808-13
      • Italy - 1944-45
      • Austria - 1945
    • Redredme@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Rampjaar. 1672. We where the dutch republic back then so it included belgium, Luxembourg. We had a lot of wars before and after between us and the English in which the english took a lot of our colonies by fotce.

      Belgium was “invaded” during WW1 and again during WW2.

      Spain: ever heard of Gibraltar?

      The English fucked with everyone who had a ship back then.

      • BastingChemina@slrpnk.netEnglish
        131·
        4 days ago

        I think it would be easier to list the periods where France and Britain were NOT at war which each other rather than the opposite.

        • heavydust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          I think they still deserve some invasion for their awful food (jelly and honey glazed carrots). They need some education and it can only happens with some kind of war.

        • athairmor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          231·
          4 days ago

          Are you saying the British never sent troops into French territory? Any incursion by armed forces into another state’s territory is the very definition of invasion.

        • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          8·
          4 days ago

          There’s been a lot of occupation as well. E.g. the hundred year war.

          If we can say Russia invaded Ukraine, England invaded France

        • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
          32·
          4 days ago

          Ignoring history and being pedant on the Internet are not the same thing. But you’re doing a good job at both.

    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      14·
      4 days ago

      Germany, and probably Austria: World War 2

      At the time the Netherlands and Belgium were occupied by Germany. Don’t know if that counts.

      France: Probably during the Hundred Years’ war.

      • LarsIsCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Weird to exclude Luxembourg from that as they were also occupied by Germany and freed by the Allied forces

        Edit: checked the book and:

        • Netherlands, The: it counts the Battle of the Sluys and other various navel battles fought on Dutch territory as valid examples
        • Belgium: it counts the battles that were fought on the land that is now Belgium, so not counting from its creation. It also counts assisting the local people, so for example fighting off the French in defense together with the Flemish

        So the book is taking “invasion” more lenient than the comment section:

        • The act of invading, especially the entrance of an armed force into a territory to conquer.

        The introduction also states “invasion, had some control over, or fought conflicts in the territory”