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Which country has Britain not invaded? According to research, 90% of the world's countries have invaded by the Brits, with some countries like Guatemala and Luxembourg and Vatican City being left off the list. British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out LuxembourgThis is all the more amazing since I don't think the invasions would have started much before the High Middle Ages (though the article does point to an invasion of Gaul in the Second Century A.D.). We're talking about a lot of military activity over the course of a thousand years...comes out to about one country invasion every six years.
China - Opium WarsRussia - Crimean WarBoth 19th Century
I guess if you want you can call them invasions.
I consider an invasion is like what Germany did to Belgium or Frnace or the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. Blocking ports and bombing a few coastal cities in China is a skirmish.
Not if you ask the 19th Century Chinese who had to essentially forfeit there sovereignty to a smorgasord of European nations in much the same fashion as the Ottoman's did through their capitulations.
What was the event at which the British ransacked one of the great Chinese palaces in the nineteenth century? I want to say the strike was commanded by a figures with the last name “Elgin”, but I don't know the exact name.
probably the Yuan Ming Yuan cleaned during the Second Opium Warhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Summer_Palace
That seems to be exactly it:
The British High Commissioner to China, Lord Elgin, retaliated by ordering the destruction of the palace, which was then carried out by British and French troops.
It also seems that once a Elgin (7th & 8th Earl) is sneaking around, there's a swift cleaning of historical heritage…
I had wondered if there was a relation between the two of them.The present earl is Andrew Bruce (11th Earl).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bruce,_11th_Earl_of_Elgin
