RE: How many wars has the UK fought?
September 4, 2016 at 5:36 pm
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2016 at 7:07 pm by Regina.)
I have no idea, but The UK has only existed as "The UK" for 309 years, and 1000 years ago the islands were split into many little petty kingdoms, so anything before 1707 would have just been regional squabbles or "civil wars", or wars with France.
The UK has only become a world power on the main stage since it became "The UK" and started colonising other countries. Before that, it was a relatively isolated backwater-region, but it always had some kind of rivalry with France and sometimes Spain.
The UK has only become a world power on the main stage since it became "The UK" and started colonising other countries. Before that, it was a relatively isolated backwater-region, but it always had some kind of rivalry with France and sometimes Spain.
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