I Read Somewhere That England Hadn't Been Invaded By A Foreign Power Since 1066.

[sandyRoe]

Is that strictly true? Didn't a Scottish army get as far south as Derby in the 18th Century?

[sunny-dave]

You could also argue that William of Orange invaded (via Brixham of all places) in November 1688 on his way to becoming King William III

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution

[davebro]

Didn't the American revolutionaries invade a NW port/harbour. They all got so *** in the local pub they gave up & went home!

[jno]

William III invaded England in 1688. He was welcomed by collaborators and duly took the throne while James II (one of whose daughters had married William) fled abroad.

And yes, Bonnie Prince Charlie did invade in 1745, though the only battle on English soil seems to have been small scale
https://i0.wp.com/bitaboutbritain.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Clifton_Moor_Sign.jpg?w=500&ssl=1

The very last battle on English soil was a very small one indeed, but as recently as 1940. The victors bought the losers a round of beer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Graveney_Marsh

[davebro]

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-paul-jones-leads-american-raid-on-whitehaven-england

I like this bit - " the other boat returned without attempting an attack on the northern fort, after the sailors claimed to have been frightened away by a noise"

[davebro]

probly heard their knees knocking!

[FatticusInch]

Some reckon another had started in the capital.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2022/05/16/londongrad-how-russias-war-exposed-the-dark-side-of-luxury-london.html

[Peter Pedant]

not foreign
1685 Monmouth was son of A king
1688 william of orange's landing Brixham was by invitation
1715 and 45 - Bony Prince Charlie was a stuart and doesnt count

and THAT dear reader ( bizarre to some of the average double digiter ABers ) why the Normany invasion was er Normandy landings - even at the time ( debarquements) er 1944 that is !

[Peter Pedant]

yeah foo
and Trump said Crimea was Russian because they speak Russian there right ?
so it wasnt invaded eeva

[ichkeria]

It isn't true
The Dutch invaded in the 17th century,
The only reason it wasn't like 1066 is that there were enough of their supporters already in the country.
But had they been properly resisted they would have fought a war of conquest.

[ichkeria]

The Dutch was the last successful one.

[ichkeria]

For small nations that have punched above their weight, the Dutch must take some beating.

[douglas9401]

The Scots stopped at Derby when the realisation dawned that the English could never be properly civilised, even by force. :-) X

[jno]

///william of orange's landing Brixham was by invitation///

by the 5Cs, PP. Just as well there was no Answerbank on which true-born Englishmen could excoriate them.

I don't think the fact that the Stuarts were (ex-)royals makes any difference. The Kaiser was Victoria's grandson, as the Old Pretender was Charles I's grandson. The only point of distinction was that the Kaiser was descended though a female and the OP through a male - and we mustn't be sexist about this.

[wolf63]

My brother invaded England about 26 years ago.

I don't know if there were any battles involved but as he is married with three teenage children I suspect that there have been a few skirmishes.

[Peter Pedant]

um I think that was the second anglo dutch war where they sailed up the Medway and burnt ships 1667

[ToraToraTora]

TBF even 1066 wasn't a proper invasion. After the death of Edward the confessor, Harold Godwinson was appointed by the Witangemot because there was not an obvious heir. William of Normandy disputed that with some validity and he and a Norman Army invaded and took the throne.

[ichkeria]

The Medway thing is different.
Andrew Marr explains it well:
"The British in general do not make much of this (1688) invasion. Even quite well educated people believe that England has not been invaded since 1066. The impression has been left that William was more or less invited in, to sort out some constitutional issues. This was not so. "

[ichkeria]

Come off it Tora. If you invade somewhere it's an invasion :-)

The only exception of course is a certain "special military operation"
And "we have not invaded Ukraine" (S Lavrov)

[ToraToraTora]

ich "For small nations that have punched above their weight, the Dutch must take some beating." - Err no we are the ultimate small nation punching above our weight, the British Empire is the largest in history, almost double the size of the next largest. The Roman empire for example is 26th. The Dutch empire is 70th in the list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires
I now welcome the 5C knockers.

[FatticusInch]

Eh? So in paragraph one it wasn’t a proper invasion, but in the last sentence we were invaded?!

I know you’re not averse to making a few things up or putting your own spin on events, but seriously?!? Lol.