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Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain (lemmy.ml)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26015783

source: https://www.statista.com/chart/3441/countries-never-invaded-by-britain/

source's source: https://archive.org/details/allcountriesweve0000layc/mode/2up

cover of the book "All the countries we've ever invaded, and the few we never got round to" by Stuart Laycock

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[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago

While I was still drinking I may have accidentally invaded Andorra. Some of those places don't need a full turn out, we might just have sent a few Army lads, they did a quick.invasion, figured out there was nothing nicking and come home, forgetting to make a note of what they did that afternoon.