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Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain (lemmy.ml)

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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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[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

when did England invade England? and more importantly when did things that didn't classify themselves as countries and nobody else classified as countries start being counted as countries?