Britain Invaded 9 in 10 Countries. Only 22 Escaped.

Britain has invaded, fought in, or sent armed forces into almost nine out of every ten countries on Earth. In 2012 the historian Stuart Laycock went through every country in the world and found only 22 that Britain never got to, and one of them is right in the middle of Europe. Watch the map turn red: the Hundred Years' War, Francis Drake and the privateers, the colonies, the East India Company, the burning of the White House in 1814, Buenos Aires, the Opium War, Kagoshima, Crimea, Egypt, Tibet, the 1922 empire, the invasion of Iceland in 1940, and the 22 countries that escaped, from Sweden to the Marshall Islands. Is your country on the red list, or one of the 22? Tell me in the comments. Chapters 0:00 9 in 10 countries 0:23 When Britain was the one invaded 0:34 1066 0:47 The Hundred Years' War 1:09 Stuart Laycock's question 1:23 His rules 1:51 It starts at sea 2:00 Francis Drake 2:20 The colonies 2:38 The 1700s 2:44 The East India Company 2:54 American independence 3:02 Washington, 1814 3:15 Napoleon and Waterloo 3:27 Buenos Aires 3:37 China and Hong Kong 3:46 Kagoshima and Crimea 3:56 Egypt and Iran 4:10 Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Africa 4:17 Tibet 4:24 The empire in 1922 4:35 The sun never set 4:46 Iceland, 1940 5:08 Madagascar 5:11 Russia, 1918 5:18 The map shrinks 5:37 Still going abroad 5:45 The 22 6:20 Why they escaped 6:42 Sweden's war with no battles 6:56 Luxembourg 7:06 Not the only one 7:17 Proud or ashamed? 7:34 Find your country Sound effects: CC0 recordings from the Kenney, CC0-Public-Domain-Sounds and rse/soundfx collections, the ESC-50 dataset (CC0-sourced clips only), and AltSFX by ALEX11BR (CC-BY 3.0). Maps: Natural Earth (public domain), modern borders; the order the map fills in is simplified, the final map follows Laycock's 2012 list. Sources Smithsonian on Laycock's book: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... Mental Floss: https://mentalfloss.com/article/13019... The World (PRI): https://theworld.org/stories/2012-11-... Invasion of Iceland (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasio... Burning of Washington (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning... #history #historyfacts #StickmanTimeMachine #britishempire #worldhistory