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How many wars has the UK fought?
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RE: How many wars has the UK fought?
It was a different world back then...
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RE: How many wars has the UK fought?
Does anyone really want to count the wars any given nation has fought in the last thousand years? I don't know, but apart from a select few still existing countries, you will need a lot more than two hands full of fingers to do the math.
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RE: How many wars has the UK fought?
Also, I think Hammy may have actually fractured the barrier between this world and the world of The Dead with this necro.
Bad Hammy. Thou shalt not unleash the revenant armies upon humanity.
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RE: How many wars has the UK fought?
Quote: Thou shalt not unleash the revenant armies upon humanity.

Oh, sure...ruin everyone else's fun.

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RE: How many wars has the UK fought?
(September 4, 2016 at 6:24 pm)abaris Wrote: Does anyone really want to count the wars any given nation has fought in the last thousand years? I don't know, but apart from a select few still existing countries, you will need a lot more than two hands full of fingers to do the math.

Another part of the trouble is defining 'war' and then deciding if a particular conflict qualifies as such.

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RE: How many wars has the UK fought?
(September 4, 2016 at 5:36 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: 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.

UK only became a world power because of the industrial revolution which started in 1760. This gave us superior technology to the rest of the world which allowed us to conquer exploit the resources of other countries. We long ago lost that advantage.

I often think that the UK jump into every war it can as a way to train its forces. Luckily we didn't join in the Vietnam war.
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