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[Joost van de Griek]

On 8/24/06 10:19 PM, Mike Meredith wrote:

>> the british never conquered europe even if they did briefly gain control of
>> greece.
> 
> As they did in some senses most of France (if King John had been luckier, it
> could well be that the English would be speaking French and the French ruled
> by an English king),

That was in Medieval times, I wouldn't count that under the British Empire.
If anything, the whole of Europe was under the influence "Vatican Empire" in
those days.

> France (during the Napolionic wars), Spain (ditto), parts of Germany (WWII),
> etc. Besides which the British Empire was part of/close enough to Europe to
> have an enormous influence (after all the UK isn't far from mainland Europe).

Those were military campaigns. Neither France nor Germany at those times (or
any time, really) can be considered part of the British Empire.

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