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Since 1066 no foreign power had ever breached the shores of the British Isles.

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

 

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On 12/28/2021 at 10:44 PM, gavagai said:

Billy III was invited, so didn't breach, got a red carpet. 

However French soldiers have landed in Scotland several times. But again invited by Scottish Kings during the medieval period. 

And in 1745 the Scottish jacobites invited them.

I also think a handful of French landed in the Irish rebellion of 1798.

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Didnt some Mercuns land at Whitehaven during the American War of Independence (or the Ungreatful Subjects War as we like to call it here in blighty) with the intent of doing something nerferious. 

Then there's the Battle of Fishguard again in the 18th Century. Shores were breached, if only briefly...

 

"Since 1066 no forgeign power has breached the shores of the British Isles and hung around long enough to complain about the weather"


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On 1/9/2022 at 4:45 PM, Boosterdog said:

Didnt some Mercuns land at Whitehaven during the American War of Independence (or the Ungreatful Subjects War as we like to call it here in blighty) with the intent of doing something nerferious. 

Then there's the Battle of Fishguard again in the 18th Century. Shores were breached, if only briefly...

 

"Since 1066 no forgeign power has breached the shores of the British Isles and hung around long enough to complain about the weather"

 

I ken the pesky Scots lad that lead the Muricans on their assault on Whitehaven...

John, a distant relation sailed from Whitehaven to the US, changed his name then organised a navy, sailed to France and then returned to Whitehaven to settle some debts. He also had a skirmish with a RN ship off of the east coast of England, later he sailed for the Russian Navy and after that the French Navy, he took ill in Paris and passed away in 1792 where the pesky French soaked him in alcohol and stuffed him in a lead coffin, his final voyage was in 1906 on USS Brooklyn when his body was returned to the US.

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