If you've ever been to England, you'll know that our country is often cold and wet. We just wanted somewhere nice to go on our holidays 😁

@charg1nmalaz0r51

2 жыл бұрын

right when you start naming types of rain you know its time to find somewhere different 🤣

@TheWeatherManP

2 жыл бұрын

NO, IT IS NOT! TROLL! / negative, uneducated boomer!! Do you live under a rock in the northern most corner or something!!?? If you've ever been to England, you'll know that our country is just as often warm / and or sometimes hot and dry as it is the opposite or anything other, it's just unpredictable sometimes. It's a mild climate in general / warm mild climate in the south. A lot of the countries we invaded were / are far colder & wetter than our generally more pleasant climate.

@JONNYDAVIS123

2 жыл бұрын

WTH you talking about!......No, it is not. Do you know anything about world weather at all! (Not meant as a question). In England, we get hot, dry weather as well & especially further south, just like it is now as I'm posting this comment..... It doesn't even get cold here or rain that much here compared to many other countries, including many of those which we invaded. Canada & Russia, two very obvious and perfect examples, just to start off with.

@southengland-thesunshineco5999

2 жыл бұрын

wtf...... NO...... IT...... ISN'T !!!!!! It's warmer or milder & drier compared to many other parts of the world. Plus it's mostly warm & dry down south, I am on holiday most of the year living between the centre, east and southern parts of England. Like for example right now, it's beautiful, sunny, warm & dry as winter ended & spring started. I'm looking forward to the long, hot, dry summer here in the centre, east, south of England.

@AlienFishGames

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheWeatherManP Wow! Did my little joke offend you? Yes, I live in the North where it rains more than it shines and I wouldn't trade it for anywhere else in the world! And, just for the record, I'm not a "boomer".

As a former British soldier all I can say is we built an empire on balls of British steel

@paulreynolds9003

2 ай бұрын

Yes and sadly we have lost them.

@danielcharnock8975

2 ай бұрын

@@paulreynolds9003 the government has. Not the working class.

Great Britain and Portugal have the oldest unbroken peace treaty in the world, Brazil was Portugese so no invasion. Try watching Great Britains crusade against the slave trade.

@Luzitanium

2 жыл бұрын

same in Africa, Portugal in fact created the portuguese african countries

@Lucas-hy5qh

2 жыл бұрын

Britain actually blockaded the early empire of Brazil because they wouldn’t stop selling slaves. It starved it into capitulation until they stopped

@redrb26dett

2 жыл бұрын

As you state politically correct with reference to government dealings but the foreign office of the Uk used mercenaries to bypass this using Thomas cochrane to help liberate chile ,Peru and Brazil . Greece was on the list but they had done all the hard work before he arrived so no contribution then on return to the Uk reinstated in the Royal Navy finishing as a admiral but there as been military incursion into Portuguese territory ie goa by the Calcutta light horse but as you stated Portugal was the preferred ally of the British (note British not English)

@Luzitanium

2 жыл бұрын

@@redrb26dett Goa was invaded by Independent India.

@amazingusername8925

Жыл бұрын

I think we should work on changing that.....we could easily take them!

They weren't invasions, they were special operations

@splodge561

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@johnman559

2 жыл бұрын

" Exercises"

@simonn5651

2 жыл бұрын

freeing them from nazi's as it goes lol

@matttaylor678

2 жыл бұрын

They were trade delegations.

@brownwarrior6867

2 жыл бұрын

Bullshit they were all cordial invites to sort out trade.

“The Empire on which the sun never sets” has been used to explain the vastness of the British Empire.

@pub1

2 жыл бұрын

Technically there are still enough crown dependencies all over the world that the sun still never sets on british territory.

@paulmidsussex3409

2 жыл бұрын

Not to flat earthers.

@englishmisfit9881

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulmidsussex3409 i watched a documentary on those nut jobs, best part was one them built a steam powered rocket strapped himself to it and launched, 60 seconds later SPLAT! i call that natural selection at work.

@richjohno

2 жыл бұрын

“The sun never set on the British empire, an Indian nationalist later sardonically commented, because even God couldn’t trust the Englishman in the dark” 😂

@englishmisfit9881

2 жыл бұрын

@@richjohno "God is obviously British, we don't have earthquakes in this country do we. That is because you don't sh*t on your own door step." Al Murray.

Brazil was Portuguese, Britains oldest ally.

@Paralyzed187

2 жыл бұрын

Not just our oldest ally, it's also the oldest alliance in history. "The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance ratified at the Treaty of Windsor in 1386, between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Portugal, is the oldest alliance based on known history in the world that is still in force by politics - with the earliest treaty dating back to the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373. Historically, the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of England, and later the modern Portuguese Republic and United Kingdom, have never waged war against each other nor have they participated in wars on opposite sides as independent states since the signing of the Treaty of Windsor. While Portugal was subsumed under the Iberian Union, rebellious Portuguese factions and government in exile sought refuge and help in England. England spearheaded the Anglo-Spanish War on the side of the deposed Portuguese royal house. The alliance has served both countries throughout their respective military histories, influencing the participation of the United Kingdom in the Peninsular War, the UK's major land contribution to the Napoleonic Wars and the establishment of an Anglo-American base in Portugal. Portugal aided England in times of need, for example, in the First World War."

@Si_Mondo

2 жыл бұрын

@@Paralyzed187 Did not know any of that. 👍 Thank you.

@ghostdancer444

2 жыл бұрын

No they have not invaded Brazil but...look up what happened in the 19th century when the Royal Navy was busy crushing slavery, including in Brazil xxxx

@stevegray1308

2 жыл бұрын

@@Paralyzed187 thanks for that comprehensive reply, I thought maybe the early French/Scots may be earlier so it is good to learn better.

@Paralyzed187

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Si_Mondo ​ No problem, I didn't know this until a few days ago when me and a Polish lad at work got to chatting and he asked if England had ever invaded portugal, had to google it as I wasn't 100% sure myself. 😂

Im very proud to be english. Love my country and the people. What a history for an island country.

@paulmasters9306

2 жыл бұрын

yep mass slavery murder invasion and death god bless the queen proud to be british

@attlee2010

Жыл бұрын

Why would you be proud? Our elite killed millions of innocent people and stole their natural resources.

@dependablestoner

Жыл бұрын

A green and pleasant land

I'm British and I'm embarrassed by the British empire, it saddens me we didn't own more. 🇬🇧

@rubitoblondie

2 жыл бұрын

Look at the massive decline now!,no longer influential and a huge joke after brexit!.The world wide understanding of the British brutality and vile practices of the past, have left you with a legacy of pure and lasting shame as an entity!.Not the modern peoples of course but as a history of where you came from,utterly shameful!.Long will be the recovery from associated acts of genocidal racist evil that represents this utmost of murderous empires!.

@ignatius4444

2 жыл бұрын

The usual sanguine leftist response there. Well done...

@thomas1404

2 жыл бұрын

@@rubitoblondie Yes Brixit, the British media and the circus that is our government aren't doing Britain any favours at the moment. And yes I am ashamed that the British empire is responsible for ending the open slave trade throughout the world, curtailing piracy, exporting a legal system of due process to so many different countries, transportation infrastructure through railroads and many other things to the world. It is truly a shameful legacy. Its nice to be able to cherry pick history to fit a narrative, makes it so much easier to make your point when you can just disregard whole aspects of it.

@somerandomguy2073

2 жыл бұрын

@@ignatius4444 You need to learn how to read..

@garethfarman9540

2 жыл бұрын

You are embarrassed at the ending of slavery. Every nation and empire had either used or relied on slavery for 1000s of years. It was the done thing. The fact that we stole the most industrialised slave system off the Spanish and operated is totally in keeping with everything that went before. The fact is that we were the first empire to end slavery. However we did not stop there. We chose to use our might to end the slave trade entirely. We blockaded African kingdoms selling slaves to other European powers and we threatened to attack slave ships. No other empire in history did more to free all its people from slavery. In addition the British Commonwealth, not to be confused with the modern COMM., was meant to allow countries to be independent but within the imperial scope. Had we made India a Commonwealth between the wars we could have founded a true trading giant. We had the right idea and and fact that so many countries are members of the modern COMM. is evidence of how well we succeeded in transforming our nation. No nation is free from atrocity and there are things I disapprove of in the extreme, but I am proud of our past achievements. In this day and age, and I hope forever more, we should never try and repeat it.. but when might was right- we were the best ever.

This might not be politically correct thing to say, but as a Brit this makes me feel quite proud. It says a lot about the character of the British. I think the narrator left out the Falklands.

@marielouise9126

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think he mentioned Bermuda either.

@michael_177

2 жыл бұрын

"this might not be politically correct thing to say" - no you're just begging it lmao

@kwlkid85

2 жыл бұрын

You can't invade yourself

@stevegray1308

2 жыл бұрын

We did not invade Argentina. We did not invade the Falklands, we colonised it, it is already British.

@danielroche114

2 жыл бұрын

@@kwlkid85 yes you can its called a civil war

Whilst the world laughed at the way the British spoke, they took it over.

@michael_177

2 жыл бұрын

Ngl bro, I'm also British, but that was a little cringey. Comes across a bit, yknow

@MrChristbait

2 жыл бұрын

The funny thing is the world thought we spoke as the Queen does,however we couldn't give a Fu*k what any motherf**Ker thinks aaaaaaaand I haven't had tea for about 20 years 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇬🇧

@michael_177

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrChristbait o..k?

@MrChristbait

2 жыл бұрын

@@michael_177 o..k what?

@shamteal8614

2 жыл бұрын

I think you are all taking this a bit too seriously.

I often wonder what would have happened with the American war of Independence if the British had not been heavily distracted by war with France and its colonies, and also with opposition at home and in Parliament to fighting a war that was not right because they were fighting what many considered to be their own people with the same values etc.

@iniquity123

2 жыл бұрын

The world would be a safer place today if GB still had its initial 13 colonies over the pond. WWI may have happened but, quickly nipped in the bud, but Nazi Germany would have been crushed. Japan flattened, and then Russia and China inevitability joining the British Empire. Then, forever world peace and (Yorkshire) Tea forever.

@woodenseagull1899

2 жыл бұрын

The worst thing in all this, was the dumping of our tea in Boston Harbour . It was outrageous, as it came all the way from Yorkshire...!

@hatkinson707

2 жыл бұрын

@@woodenseagull1899 If it's not from Yorkshire, its shite.

@Officialnrb

2 жыл бұрын

Had the 1777 civil war turned out differently there would be far more of the indigenous people alive today in North America

@JackRabbit002

2 жыл бұрын

@@Officialnrb I've often thought about this I mean most Countries/Nations we conquered, subjugated etc....least the Native populations are still there!! Think we liked to just hug the coast though, our power being the sea. Understand we have been responsible for the shifting of populations etc but people choose to do that themselves too so......

Try How the British ended slavery, it gives a good insight into how wealthy some African chiefs became from capturing and selling their own people, also the Portuguese bought more slaves than any other nation!

These days it's not popular to admire what the British achieved in terms of Empire but we were the first to industrialise and also a maritime nation so in my view it was inevitable we would make use of those two advantages. Any other country in the same position would have done the same.

@Paul-hl8yg

2 жыл бұрын

And they tried! 🇬🇧

@The1958Rocker

2 жыл бұрын

And the world forgets Great Britain led the fight to abolish slavery. The costs incurred weren't paid off until the seventies or eighties if I remember correctly without googling it. 👍

@Mk1Male

2 жыл бұрын

@@The1958Rocker It was 2015. But hey, nobody is interested in that. They just want to blame us for slave labour, which in fact was started thousands of years before.

@paulmk2290

2 жыл бұрын

@@The1958Rocker Quite right, the West Africa Squadron.

@jamesoakley4570

2 жыл бұрын

I'm proud of the Empire and all her achievements. ofcourse there's some dark past in there, but I acknowledge this but it still doesn't mean I'm not proud of what the Empire brought.

Worth pointing out, very few countries were 'invaded' by the British in terms of companies or the state. This is an error by the creator of this video. Britain was not a country until 1707. Many that [were invaded] was due to war. Companies traded and brought those countries into a sphere of influence but used local leaders and elections and did not try to impose Britishness on the countries where British entrepreneurs were present. It is also the case that most countries were not countries but empires in their own right that the British companies paid to trade with. The British did not have vast land armies. The genius was in trade and using their intellect to make the countries better off under British influence but with local rulers. The British Empire created the modern world we have today and living standards (with crop yields, life expectancy, education, sports, administration, institutions of freedom, science and technology, industrial revolution itself and more) across the world are better for it. Not popular but true. The British Empire was the single best thing that happened to humanity in its entire history. I stand by that after decades of interest in the matter. Did bad things happen? Yes, because we are human. But the British when it comes to slavery for instance, were the only country to have ended the slave trade on a moral mission at great cost to itself. The British Empire even dismantled itself without war.

@icedanilzation

2 жыл бұрын

I agree that the British forced the world to step forward, I don't think they were the first, that would go to the Romans, British second, yet to see a third.

@mgrimble3975

2 жыл бұрын

"The genius was in trade and using their intellect to make the countries better off under British influence but with local rulers." This is a ridiculous romanticized view of what actually happened, In reality we went around the global raping the resources of 100's of millions, enslaving or murdering anyone that opposed us.

@richardwills-woodward5340

2 жыл бұрын

@@mgrimble3975 The British Empire enslaved nobody, indeed the Empire rejected slavery and that is why they worked with local leaders to rule, but all through a commercial endeavour. They never - not once, took land by force for land's sake. The British Empire was not one thing - it was many things and it evolved right up to beating the Nazis in World War 2 in coalition with others, but stood alone for years. Neither did we 'rape resources' as you put it. Resources were utilised through commercial venture, and people that were otherwise destitute found themselves with jobs, administration, infrastructure, education, sports, life expectancy increasing, crop yields increasing by up t0 1,000%! Then there is the industrial revolution which has seen living standards across the world rise faster than any time in human history with mass poverty alleviation. You then have free trade, and democratic institutions (yes even in the 'colonised' of many regions. The British were by far the most civilised of those in the world at that time. Just see the places the British entrepreneurs and later the state, went... then talk to me about mass murder, from widow burning to child murder as part of their cultures. Without the British the modern world would not have been born and billions would be dead without its technology in health, science, invention, and so on. Further, no legal system would exist where habeas corpus was an issue, where jury trial an option, where parliamentary democracy exists, where slavery was illegal and the slave trade beaten in a moral mission at great cost to itself. So please, if we're going on looking at the world in context of thew time, don't start with a rose tinted view that the rest of the world were saints - they weren't and they were all playing the same game - and lost, but the British Empire was the most civilised of all, and we are living in its afterglow today. When it comes to slavery, you are part of it by writing what you wrote on a device with slavery in it. You are just the usual left wing hypocrite.

@Michael.Talbot

2 жыл бұрын

The video starts with the "English and later the British" @1:40 so he is including pre union history. Good points though, I think the greatest thing the Empire did was promote democracy and law and order. Edit.. as well as ending slavery of course.

As a lot of others have suggested take a look at how Britain fought to bring an end to slavery - and also how black Americans were treated by UK at The Battle at Bamber Bridge during WW2 🇬🇧

@tabitha4135

2 жыл бұрын

Yes 👍🏻 terrible the way Americans treated black soldiers!

@lawrenceglaister4364

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't just at Bamber Bridge , my old girl told us that during WW2 the pubs in Liverpool would often have a small band playing at the weekends for the public , couples used to go and while the wives used to dance with anyone the husband's used to play cards and darts etc with their friends , the only trouble was when American black soldiers danced with the white girls and white American soldiers objected and fighting started , but it was sorted when the locals beat up the white soldiers for disturbing their only night out of the week

@tabitha4135

2 жыл бұрын

@@lawrenceglaister4364 yes there is a lot of stories like that. Some of the black soldiers married white women here.

@moody1965

2 жыл бұрын

@William Clark Yeah exactly wtf. It's always funny seeing other brits say we ended slavery so we are the good guys. As if we still weren't massacring people in Africa long after. And causing famines in India that lead to the death of MILLIONS.

@doubletapthatdotty4597

2 жыл бұрын

@William Clark we did end it. When our opinion on slavery changed. You still had segregation 60 years ago lol. We sent our navy to stop American slavers taking more slave's. And that's when Lincoln got the idea for the Ending slavery and the civil war started. Learn history. Just because you started it but changed your opinion doesn't mean you can't stop it?

I'm living in the UK because of the British Empire Cyprus was a British colony and my grandparents migrated in the 1950s to the UK

@hachwarwickshire1718

2 жыл бұрын

I still love Cyprus and support it no questions ask !

@2sqnbandit379

2 жыл бұрын

I love cyprus. I go to protaras when I can. Went to famagusta. Such a shame what happened to those poor people.

@chrisklitou7573

2 жыл бұрын

@@2sqnbandit379 well Britain promised to protect Cyprus after their independence but then sat back and did nothing when Turkey invaded

@2sqnbandit379

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisklitou7573 yeah it was disgraceful. We could of blown them out of the water. I looked into this, apparently a deal was done to put nukes in Turkey on ussr border and so the USA and UK turned a blind eye. Politics for you. Human beings, families lost their homes.

@chrisklitou7573

2 жыл бұрын

@@2sqnbandit379 Britain not only sat back and did nothing they along with the US shared intelligence with Turkey so they knew the best places for airstrikes

The saying "the sun never sets on the British Empire" refers to the fact that somewhere in the British Empire at any given time is was daytime because the empire was that massive. We invaded 60% of the world. We the British needed a hobby! Can i recommend that you react to the video "The British crusade against slavery" Keep up the good work.

@KingBoomer

2 жыл бұрын

I’ll mark it down. Thank you!

@Isleofskye

2 жыл бұрын

Great Reaction but he said 60% of The World's Countrues:117 modern countries in total:)

@KingBoomer

2 жыл бұрын

@@Isleofskye good lord lol

@carlhartwell7978

2 жыл бұрын

@@KingBoomer I have to say this but expect _some_ backlash to the recommendation of that crusade video as well as your reaction to it. There is a lot of misinfo about its creator. He's not exactly PC if you know what I mean! But the video itself is factual, and has little opinion.

@YouSmokeChed

2 жыл бұрын

@@KingBoomer good suggestion that

New Zealand does not celebrate our independence day, in fact very few would have any idea when it is. We celebrate Waitangi Day which commemorates the signing of the treaty of Waitangi between the British and indigenous Maori. Reality is that NZ never saw itself as not being free but in a partnership with the mother country.

Ignore the troll commenter. If you've ever been to England, you'll know that our country is just as often warm / and or sometimes hot and dry as it is the opposite or anything other, it's just unpredictable sometimes. It's a mild climate in general / warm mild climate in the south. A lot of the countries we invaded were / are far colder & wetter than our generally more pleasant climate.

@lawrenceglaister4364

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget John New York has the same amount of rain as we do but they get it in big bursts were as the UK has it generally as light rain over a longer period so making sure the plants are well watered , as Al Murray says God doesn't piss in his own backyard

@johnmellan1732

2 жыл бұрын

Funny you say that, it's summer, we've had one week of good weather, it's been raining for days. Don't talk nonsense.

We the UK actually used the White House as a ( mess hall ) where the soldiers had their food and slept in the rooms, we may be a small country but we sure can fight when we need to lol

Basically if you were a country that touched water, we from our small island were coming to pay you a visit.

For a small island to control the largest empire in history is very impressive.

@Tarmaccyclocross

Жыл бұрын

Something to do with being thugs

@Ukfairgrounds

Жыл бұрын

@@Tarmaccyclocross keep crying

Brazil was a Portuguese colony and Portugal was Englands oldest ally.Slavery Abolition Act, (1833), in British history, act of Parliament that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada. It received Royal Assent on August 28, 1833, and took effect on August 1, 1834.

@pablo19136

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and British slave owners mostly the aristocracy, received Billions in compensation a 1/4 of the GDP at the time. No compensation went to the people who were abducted from their homes. If you ever visit the UK you will no doubt stumble upon large stately homes, these were paid for through slavery.

@catherinerobilliard7662

2 жыл бұрын

@@pablo19136 not all Stately Homes by any means; many of the aristocracy were ardent abolitionists, including the Acland family who funded ships to intercept slavers and lost sons to the African Fever, their graves placed in Benin.

@jpw6893

2 жыл бұрын

@@pablo19136 right or wrong slave were classed as property so in order for it to go through they were compensated. The slaves also didn't receive compensation from the people who sold them unto slavery, namely the black African tribe leaders.

@Paul-hl8yg

2 жыл бұрын

@@jpw6893 Slavery has been a part of Human history since the start. Many peoples were slaves, including the British. From the Romans to the Barbary pirates. The latter were black people that came from Africa & enslaved an estimates 1 million + white individuals from the British isles. So it was the British that put an end to not only the black slave trade but to slavery in general. Although of course illegal/black market slavery still goes on today. 🇬🇧

@jpw6893

2 жыл бұрын

@@Paul-hl8yg it has. The Portuguese transported more black slaves than us, the middle east were far worse then GB. It just always seems the be GB that has to say sorry....oh and pay.

The reason for their success was: the Royal Navy which was the most powerful force in the world.

Spain was the first empire where the Sun never set, but Britains was far bigger and stronger. Most of these 'invasions' were in wars against 'evil' foes [Napoleon/Kaiser Wilhem II/Hitler/Commies in Russia etc.] We were the first Super Power of the Earth and Lord Palmerston [A Victorian Prime Minister] warned the world that if any British citizen was harmed/kidnapped, he would send the Royal Navy to bombard their cities until they were returned. The Royal Navy also enforced anti slavery shipments when we banned slavery for the world.

@Paul-hl8yg

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, let us not forget that Napoleon was in fact France's version of Hitler, no matter how the French see him with statues dedicated to him! He caused the suffering/deaths of millions! The World was saved from him by the British! 🇬🇧🇺🇸

@grumblewoof4721

2 жыл бұрын

@@Paul-hl8yg I think it is a requirement that all dictators are short, under 6ft. Putin is 3 ft 5 inches and has a very small ... actually he is somewhere between 5ft 3 inches and 5ft 7inches. Some say he wears 4 inch heels, suspenders and a bra but only when at work. In his off hours he prefers to be naked or wears a romper suit (onesie)

@Luzitanium

2 жыл бұрын

ignorant, it was Portugal the first empire where the Sun never set, the one who gave you access to India.

finally an American who actually knows his world history !! subscribed

a lot of Americans wonder why we don't learn about their own independence in our schools and this is why, if you learn about one you gotta learn about them all. and sense our history is over a thousand years old thats a lot to learn in 5 years, or 3 if you drop it. it just cant be done. thats why most british historians only focus on one era.

Brazil was not invaded because at the time it was a Portuguese territory. The British-Portuguese diplomatic alliance is one of the oldest continuing treaties in existence, signed in 1386.

@marksudlow5083

2 жыл бұрын

Yep!! Correct... Portugal is Britain's oldest ally...

@lawrenceglaister4364

2 жыл бұрын

But they did say if slavery wasn't stopped the Royal Navy would blockade Brazil as it was the biggest importer of slaves

Hello there how are you..? Warmest greetings from the United Kingdom... I'm a new subscriber and I'm enjoying your channel immensely... As you enjoyed this video about the countries England has invaded, I think you may enjoy reacting to a video so called 'How much power does the Queen have in England'. As a Brit, I find this to be informative and a great insight to her actual powers that you may not realise what she can actually instigate... She maybe a figure head, but a nod and a quiet word goes a long way...! Thank you for your great reactions, I do enjoy your frankness and openness which I find quite refreshing and a great pleasure... Thanks again

Ireland put down their mug of tea and said "right I won't keep you" 800 years later England still hadn't taken the hint to leave 😄

Good to see an American with decent historical and geographical knowledge. Haiti actually had to pay the French to be independent. We left as the diseases were rife which was why the slaves were used in the first place as they were resistant.

We had hundreds of years of getting invaded ourselves from the vikings to the romans. We had plenty of practice before it was match time ;)

no country is free of sin but I couldn't be prouder to be English/british.... there is a country on earth as influential as this little island we call home.....

'Know Your Ally' is a great historical video created by the US State Department during world war 2 to help American soldiers understand their new ally Britain and the reasons they were both fighting against the axis, fascinating look into history from those of the time. 'The Battle at Bamber Bridge' is another great video as is 'The British Crusade against Slavery'.

Hi King Boomer. The vid has forgotten to mention .Brave little Malta, The Falklands Islands, the Crimea, Ascension Island and enormous parts of the Antarctica . King Boomer when you have t h e time please view the best bits of English football chants as the stadiums are much bigger and all lit up. Keep the good work up buddy after my hard day at work you and your comments make me laugh so much and I for get what a knob head my boss is . Cheers

@robmartin525

2 жыл бұрын

Falklands wasn't an invasion!

@Paul-hl8yg

2 жыл бұрын

Hello John, your 'knob head' boss here!! Lol only joking! 😆🇬🇧

@malcomflibbleghast8140

2 жыл бұрын

the crimea is in the ukraine.....

@James-hd6ez

Жыл бұрын

​@@malcomflibbleghast8140 Think you will find its Russia 🇷🇺

The phrase you were looking for is "The sun never sets on the British empire"

We do get about a bit, don't we!? I love history. It is the backstory good and bad for each of us. And from before the Ancient Egyptians to now & no doubt the future, humans will keep subjugating each other. It's sad and it's crazy. So r we at times individually as well as en masse. We in England were part of the huge Roman Empire, in slavery to them, as were countless other peoples. I'm glad at least that the vile evil of slavery was finally ended by Britain in the early 1830's. About f@#king time. Learning a lot from your enthusiasm for history and from your comedians reactions. Thanks so much. Loved the football chants!. Look out the cheese rolling UK competition. Oh & a town in UK standing up for Black Soldiers against US Army police in ww2. Thanks again. 😁💕

Good reactions to a good video. You do another one to tell what this tiny island nation has invented or discovered and brought to the world. This would also be an eye opening. Many things taken for granted where discovered / invented by the British.

Hi from England. Loving your reactions 👍

The shrinking process of the empire since then is like the evolutionary shrinking process of theropods from T-Rex to Robin . But the UK has retained its cultural influence on the world, which may be just as baffling. Half the Globe is Anglo-Saxon culturally. Or more :O

Lol seen this video before and when you declared you were going to 'tally' the countries I was waiting for the Africa part! 🤣

I'm English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿with a Dominican friend and he told me they lived like millionaires compared to Haiti!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸

🎶running over pedestrians shouting "let's just be friends!"🎶

We really used to be good at invading. We learnt from the best, Vikings, Romans ... So not only did we invade we also learned how to resist invasion - Spanish, French, Dutch, Germans ... but now we just want to be left alone and have no appetite to invade anyone else.

@Cailean_MacCoinnich

2 жыл бұрын

I'm with you. The sun has set on the British Empire. So now lets just baton down the hatches and hang on to what we still have.

@JamesSmith-cm7sg

2 жыл бұрын

Invasion is different these days. Our goal seems to be technology, finance and surveillance now.

Papa has a BRAND new Guinea 🤣🤣🤣! I remember you laughing at that, I thought it was hilarious too. I like your humour ☺️🙌🏻!

One country not mentioned was the island of Malta which was ruled by the Brits from when Nelson kicked out Napoleon in 1806 till the islands independence in 1975.

Currently away working over in parts of Central, Eastern and Northern Europe, where it's always cold. As always can't wait to go back to England with it's pleasant warm late March 70 degree Spring like weather & where the gulf stream is always in effect.

@davemac1197

2 жыл бұрын

"53'F Cloudy" at the moment chap, but I take your point!

For a start, 'England' as such never invaded anywhere. It hardly even got round to 'invading' Scotland. However, Scotland did in fact invade England at one point, got as far as the Midlands and nearly got away with it. Some people think that the Scots have been 'invading' England ever since. And the 'Irish' were invading England many centuries ago and selling English slaves in Dublin before the whole business was quashed and outlawed through the Declaration of London in the the 12th. or 13th. century. If anyone's been to Hong Kong, one of the last UK colonies, practically all the streets names there are Irish or Scots, not 'English'. And Scotland only decided to join England in the Union after its invasion of the Panama area virtually bankrupted it. Also, the British Empire grew rather more like a supermarket 'Empire' than anything else since the 'British' (NOT the 'English') were first and foremost bothered about making money through trade - and if one has any sense one is usually careful not to upset the customers too much. Why else did Napoleon call the British' 'a nation of shopkeepers'? And, by the way, the 'England' has also had its share of being 'invaded - by the Romans (400+ years), the Danes over at least century or two, the French in 1066 (up to 2 centuries) and in the 1600's and 1700's by Barbary pirates who invaded southwest English coastal towns and kidnapped the inhabitants for sale in north African slave markets (that's very well documented). It seems a lot of people around the world don't seem to have the first clue what they're talking about, particularly when they use the word 'English'.

@thadtuiol1717

2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: St. Patrick was actually a Briton (probably from Cornwall) who was taken as a slave to Ireland by Irish raiders. So their own patron saint was a Brit who they kidnapped.

@spudthing1168

Жыл бұрын

Hi can I ask where you’re from?

Yes it was all the English that invaded,we Scots ,Welsh and N Irish had absolutely nothing to do with it 😂, we watched it all unfold on the telly.

@themanwithnoname3636

2 жыл бұрын

You was actually the best along with American refugees.

@markscouler2534

2 жыл бұрын

The British empire the meaning is in the name it was not the English empire was it

12:37 The British wouldn't invade Brazil because of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance. It is the oldest alliance in the world and is still in force today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Alliance

I watched you marking off the countries knowing full well you would give up it was just a matter of time. It was hilarious when you finally did. 😂

Really makes me proud to be british

At the start of the video where it mentions the British invading Ireland and France what we are really talking about is the Normans. In other words the French. These medieval monarchs spoke French rather than English. Some barely visited England.

@davemac1197

2 жыл бұрын

The Normans were a Norse colony, founded in the 8th Century by a Danish Viking called Rolf/Rollo. He became the first Duke of Normandy after being bought off by the French with land for not sacking Paris for the second time (they had given up their gold and silver to avoid the first sacking). Six generations later in 1066, his direct descendent, William (known as William the B*st*rd to the French) invaded England because he had a claim to the English throne. The Normans spoke French because they had adopted the language of the local inhabitants of Normandy. When they took over England, French became the official language of England until 1362, although most of the people continued to speak Old English. England invaded France and lost it again during the Hundred Years war, 1337-1453.

As an English Brit it’s amazing how out small island did so much, but you need to remember that some that are mentioned as to a result of war not invasion (as in awarded to not taken) and also these did not all happen at once it’s spread out over many hundreds of years and some of what was mentioned had been lost when others we won. We never held them all in one go. I’m sure most European country’s could lay claim to the same sort of history in terms of who they invaded or warred with.

@Drobium77

2 жыл бұрын

that's not the point of the video

@serbowdster2311

2 жыл бұрын

@@Drobium77 I think you’ll find that my first sentence is in answer to the title of the video. But you can have your own view on it should you wish.

@Drobium77

2 жыл бұрын

@@serbowdster2311 I understand that, but it comes across differently in the way you put it.

The sun never set on the British Empire, because even God could not trust the British in the dark...

@TukikoTroy

2 жыл бұрын

Hah! :)

@carolineb3527

2 жыл бұрын

LOL, you owe me a new keyboard for making me spray tea over this one! 😁

@Paul-hl8yg

2 жыл бұрын

But trusted the British to modernise the globe, industry, modern Democracy, law, medicine, gold standard, time accuracy, navigation, 46% of all inventions & a wealth of other positives that changed the World for the better! The World is not as much in the dark today BECAUSE of the British!! 🇬🇧

@iriscollins7583

2 жыл бұрын

@@Paul-hl8yg Joseph Swan😊

@Paul-hl8yg

2 жыл бұрын

@@iriscollins7583 Good one! 👍 And all the rest! 💪❤🇬🇧

Missed a few side missions but we definitely completed the game.

As Rudyard Kipling puts it, "Walk wide o’ the Widow at Windsor, For ’alf o’ Creation she owns". Perhaps someone could tell me though whether any other former Empire has an equivalent to the British Commonwealth?

As a brit, as soon as you said "I'm gonna keep a ticker" I just thought to myself... "good luck with that"

British Army regiments have mottos on their flags. The Honourable Artillery Company only have a one word motto, which is Ubique, meaning EVERYWHERE.

This is why the full English breakfast is so important.

I think you’d enjoy the video on “How Britain Ended Slavery”

If you want more info on the Haitian revolution there is good crash course video about it, they have some awesome playlists about American and world history which are fun to watch.

If someone can sit down sensibly and explain how their colonization by Britain didn't actually massively improve their country. Please explain.

@richardwills-woodward5340

2 жыл бұрын

@@niallrussell7184 Ireland was not a colony and was not invaded. Ireland was part of the British state. Education vastly improved under the British Empire. India didn't have sanitation to begin with. Under the British their crop yields increased by over 800% and their life expectancy shot up by decades. Chinese were addicted to opium long before the British. The Chinese were trading with India and these drugs were sold by Chinese to Chinese. The trade was merely increased under the British and there was a ready market - just like in the UK with the spice drug China now sells into Britain. No indigenous people of anywhere were herded up by the British. They were 'herded up' by African empires and sold to European powers as slaves were slaves across the world. What was unique was the British abolishing the slave trad eon a moral mission at huge cost to itself for absolutely no advantage other than personal moral satisfaction. Without the British Empire, you wouldn't have computers, tv, fly in jet planes, have unified time, global communications, advanced health or science, have trains and modern transport systems and so on. The advantages far outweighed the bad. You must use the context of the time and stop applying your own moral standards to today. You are complicit in slavery as you wrote this on a phone or computer using parts from Africa mined by slaves. It is the hypocrisy I cannot stand.

The Welsh just sitting here waving our hands about being ignored by history again. We were the first country England invaded then Scotland then Ireland.

From Small Acorns do Big Oak Tree's Grow, This is GREAT Britain..

We didn't invade Brazil as it was Portuguese - Britain and Portugal have the worlds longest peace treaty (since 1386)

I went to Haiti many years ago and saw the fortress of Citadelle Laferrière. They built it incase the French came back in 1820. It is insane!

@KingBoomer

2 жыл бұрын

I know of that fort. That’s amazing that you saw it in person!

@sampeeps3371

2 жыл бұрын

@@KingBoomer yah my dad was working for an aid organisation out there and I spent 2 weeks there.

We were the Real life version of the Seagulls from Finding Nemo, running round the world shouting "Mine" at everything/everyone. Very angry little Island.

I was wondering when you were going to give up counting 😂

@KingBoomer

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty quick lol

You can do it and thanks for enlightening me on Haiti. 👍

The Vikings taught us well..

@Paul-hl8yg

2 жыл бұрын

And before them, the Romans! 🇬🇧

The sun never sets on the British Empire This is why English is the language of business and is the most spoken language behind Mandarin because there are 7 Billion people

You should react to: James Acaster-the absurdity of the british empire Its hilarious

@johnomeara837

2 жыл бұрын

I second this, it's brilliant

@Soulvex

2 жыл бұрын

3rd it

@Si_Vert

2 жыл бұрын

4th it

@Bertie22222

2 жыл бұрын

He's about as funny as syphilis

@Bertie22222

2 жыл бұрын

@@glastonbury4304 Well that explains why you find him funny

Before they became great, we Norwegians (well, the vikings) used to invade England about every fortnight (dependent on weather of course) in small wooden boats... ;-)

@Steve-ys1ig

2 жыл бұрын

Ah - but we learned from that and decided to invade everyone else

@kristena9285

2 жыл бұрын

@@Steve-ys1ig Indeed ;-)

@tabitha4135

2 жыл бұрын

Most of us Uk people have Viking blood 🩸

It’s funny how and this isn’t to be rude but the biggest celebration in American history was in all due respect was in reality a side show compared to what the British had to deal with at the time and I think that the American Revolution was mostly glamorized and over exaggerated, where brave Americans defeated the villainous British empire, when in reality the American Revolution wasn’t that popular and at the time the Americans were funded and armed by the french, both the Spanish and French empires were at war with Britain, France was in its usual economic collapse, whilst Spain had its ass handed to them which resulted in the complete destruction of their empire and massive losses in their American colonies as places like Brazil and Argentina started to revolt. Not only that but there were massive civil unrest in India at the time and about ten other wars, and so the American Revolution wasn’t that big of a deal, since to the British most of the native Americans were more than happy to trade with the British and the rest of America was just too dangerous and not worth the effort in annoying the locals as well as dealing with the french, and not only that but Russia owned most of Alaska and so expanding into more snow and mountains wasn’t viable either and so America was simply abandoned since it wasn’t worth the effort, but wasn’t worth the risk to either invade less having to deal with a new and legally established nation but since it already lost it would be less financially beneficial to try again and so enjoyed a century long trade relationship since South America was rich with cotton and southerners whilst the north was an ever growing power house and so with the purchase of the former French territory, to pay for the French Revolution, and since the British were more than happy to trade with both the Indians as well as America. They simply let America be since I the natives lost so what, we still had America to trade with and if the Americans all got slaughtered then there’s still the natives and so what seemed to be a major event where an axe wielding patriot wiped out an entire British regiment, was nothing but a side show at the time.

@KingBoomer

2 жыл бұрын

This is very true. In fact both wars (Revolutionary and 1812) were technically side wars for the UK. They were fighting several other nations simultaneously while they were dealing with the Americans. So no offense taken! Most people here aren’t aware of this.

@themanwithnoname3636

2 жыл бұрын

The American revolution was our Vietnam in terms of we could have kept throwing resources and men at it with not much outcome. The leaders of Great Britain did very well in they had the foresight to agree a decent peace treaty. At the right time. Anglo influence was still spread throughout the world when America grew stronger and stronger. It could very easily have been French.

@hadesdogs4366

2 жыл бұрын

@@themanwithnoname3636 agreed and again whilst the American Revolution is glorified and glamorized as this big national war when in reality the revolution was actually quiet unpopular since if such a thing were to happen, then they would lose the protection as well as the resources of the British empire which in reality did diddly dick when it came to collecting its taxes and whilst the only two real things to be forcefully taxed were stamps and tea, but because the British had many other things to worry about as well as admittinly the terrible leadership of most British officers at the time since whilst the British army was powerful, it was badly plagued with poor and unimaginative leaders, who whilst yes would have been more effective against a more symmetrical enemy such as the french, refused to use troops like skirmishers, scouts or even sharp shooters because of tradition. And since having a former British commander on the enemy’s side doesn’t help when they have access to, stratagems and tactics used by your own army and would be more or less be like giving the taliban, the instruction manual on how to build an effective army.

@KingBoomer

2 жыл бұрын

@William Clark lol ok

We do enjoy going on tour. Even today we just love it 😁

That's why you don't want to mess with the Brits - but we did do some good things too, please check out YT vid 'The British Crusade Against Slavery'

You must watch Ricky Gervais at the 2020 Golden Globes for an epic roasting 🤣

The British evolved from a mix of tribes: Angles, Saxons and Celts. These got crossed with a big influx of Vikings. Every component of this mix was originally a war-like tribe. Then add to this the British were the first to have an industrial revolution and you have a VERY marshal out-turn that ran 25% of the world.

We get bored easy, we like to travel and we do the French for fun, Somewhere in the world the sun is setting over the yardarm time for a drink, somewhere it's time for tiffen

We just like travelling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍

Re Slavery. Check out "The British Crusade Against Slavery" by Sargon of Akkad.

Gives some perspective to your reaction, regarding Al Murray's speech about being the world champions in wartime. Cheers from Italy!

@daddycool474

2 жыл бұрын

yea look at Rome a dark skin people putting white skin people into slavery and using them for entertainment for hundreds of years hang on maybe I need reparations haha

@milesdust3465

2 жыл бұрын

@@daddycool474 First of all: at least try to write in proper English. Are you referring to Rome in Italy or Rome Tennessee?

@daddycool474

2 жыл бұрын

@@milesdust3465 only one Rome invaded my country mate maybe you need to brush up on your history haha

@milesdust3465

2 жыл бұрын

@@daddycool474 Once again: can you please write so I can understand? And I am not your mate.

@daddycool474

2 жыл бұрын

@@milesdust3465 and the word mate is may culture stop being racist

For all the Scottish & Welsh have endured in their dealings with the English, it feels remiss to exclude them from the list of England's invasions. Though once brought into the fold, they both valiantly assisted in many of the British Empire's conquests. The follow-up to this video could be the list of countries to have invaded England.... it's a fairly exclusive club!

We invaded Brazil in 1806 and Argentina in 1832 It’s just easier to say who we haven’t invaded; Andorra Burundi Belarus Bolivia Central African Republic Chad Côte d'Ivoire Republic of the Congo Guatemala Kyrgyzstan Liechtenstein Luxembourg Monaco Marshall Islands Mali Mongolia Paraguay São Tomé and Príncipe Sweden Tajikistan Uzbekistan Vatican City

@davemac1197

2 жыл бұрын

1806 was an invasion of Rio de la Plata, which is now part of Argentina and was a Spanish colony. England did loot the Brazillian port of Recife in 1595, but Brazil was part of the Iberian Union of Spain and Portugal, so technically it was a Spanish possession at the time and did not violate our longstanding alliance with Portugal.

I've used blender for years now , absolutely amazing software and its 100% free , ive used it mainly for 3d modeling , game development ect , but ive also done video animations ect in it too with ease.

@KingBoomer

2 жыл бұрын

Someone else suggested this. I’ll download it. Thanks!

Just shows you the importance of strategy.

Love your shows old retired Scotsman living in Germany

Ireland was England's first colony it wasn't the first place invaded that goes to England itself with the Anglo-Saxons invading GB. It's worth noting that in Frances case the people invading France were Normans who originated in France it was a civil dispute as opposed to an English-British invasion.

The *Haitian Revolution* is briefly mentioned in *Akala's Fire in the Booth Part 4* in his story-poem opera about his character the *Knowledge Seeker* who is born and reborn in conflicts all throughout history. However if you're going to check him out, it would be better to do *Parts 1, 2 and 3* first. He's another one that people spread myth's about, mainly saying he's *a qualified teacher who teaches at Universities,* because they don't understand simple differences between an *actual degree which someone has worked for* and an *honourable degree which someone has been given,* along with the difference between the *University of Oxford* and the *Oxford Union.* He does not teach at Universities or even schools, as he has no legitimate qualifications past A level. He's basically an unqualified community worker who has community centres to help kids.

@michael_177

2 жыл бұрын

Daniel have you SEEN the comments? I Don't think half of these old gammons would appreciate Akala (Unfortunately I dont think Gazza, 52, who loves footy and pints, hates the missus - is going to appreciate the message that Akala gives :(

@aaroncarter9753

2 жыл бұрын

That is the greatest FITB for the knowledge seeker bit at the end alone. The other reply is right, most of these gammons in the comments wouldn't get it

You should react to ‘Know your ally, Britain’ it’s an old US military produced video made to teach US troops going to England about the culture and history and much more, it’s made about ww2, YOU WILL FUCKING LOVE IT I GUARANTEE YOU!!!

Just found your channel mate, subscribed. You should react to Britain ending slavery.

If you're into creating short content, try watching some of the David Mitchell's Soapbox podcasts...especially the one on necrophilia...hilarious

Very profound what you say here about Haiti...

Great Reaction but he said 60% of The World's Countrues:117 modern countries in total:)

"The sun never set on the British Empire" is the correct say. Implying it was always daytime somewhere it controlled.

It's amazing when you think England is smaller than Washington State!

10:52 I know I’m late but Britain and Spain fought against France and were allied with Haiti lol, but they all suffered yellow fever so it wasn’t enormously influential

2:05 ' *Ireland was the first target of British conquest* ' Wrong on both accounts;it wasn't a British' conquest but an English one The first country that England invaded was the one nextdoor to it: *Wales* *Edit* : England took longer to fully conquer Wales than Ireland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊

@Welsh_Dragon756

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Technically what we now call England was the first place they conquered.

Haiti was last weeks Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast subject