• Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
    21·
    7 days ago

    Hmmm.

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

    • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      3 days 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·
      5 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.

    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      13·
      7 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·
        5 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”