Chuckfickens you are right, however, do we still rage against the Romans, who weren't noted for their gentility in the face of opposition, nor come to think of it The Normans, or indeed the Norsemen, raping, pillaging, and generally treating the locals with contempt, and killing people on an industrial scale.
Nor indeed should anyone forget that had Hitler succeeded in conquering Britain, most of us wouldn't be here now to have our debates on any matter, including who conquered who. Did not the west turn its head when the slaughter occured in Rwanda, mass tribal genocide. Perhaps it thought had it interferred it would be accused of imperialism. Britain had an empire once, it doesn't anymore,
but you blame the governments of the time, not the British people en masse, as most were under the yoke as much as anyone.