An overview of Britain s four invasion wars

The Iberians, Vics, and Celts from the Mediterranean came to Britain one after another. The southeastern part of the island of Great Britain was ruled by the Roman Empire in the 1st and 5th centuries AD. After the Romans withdrew, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes in northern Europe invaded and settled one after another.

In the 7th century, the feudal system began to form, and many small states were merged into seven kingdoms, which lasted for 200 years, and the history is known as the "Anglo-Saxon era". In 829, King Egbert of Wessex united England. It was invaded by the Danes at the end of the 8th century and was part of the Danish pirate empire from 1016 to 1042.

After a short period of English rule, the Duke of Normandy crossed the sea to conquer England in 1066. In 1215, King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta, and royal power was suppressed. From 1338 to 1453, England and France fought the "Hundred Years' War", and England won first and then lost.

In 1536 Wales was united with England. In 1588, he defeated the Spanish "Armada" and established maritime supremacy. In 1640, England was the first in the world to break out in the bourgeois revolution and became the forerunner of the bourgeois revolution.

The Republic was proclaimed on May 19, 1649. In 1660 the dynasty was restored, and in 1688 the "Glorious Revolution" took place, which established a constitutional monarchy. England was united with Scotland in 1707 and Ireland in 1801.

From the second half of the 18th century to the first half of the 19th century, it became the first country in the world to complete the industrial revolution. The 19th century was the heyday of the British Empire, and in 1914 it occupied a colony 111 times larger than the mainland, making it the first colonial power and calling itself the "empire on which the sun never sets". After the First World War, it began to decay.

Britain established the County of North Irand in 1920 and allowed the south of Ireland to secede from its rule in 1921-1922 as an independent state. In 1931, the Act of Westminster was enacted, forcing the Dominion to recognize its independence in domestic and foreign affairs, and the colonial system of the British Empire was shaken ever since. In World War II, Britain's economic power was greatly weakened and its political status declined.

With the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, the British colonial system collapsed in the 60s. The United Kingdom joined the European Community in January 1973. Historically, England, Scotland, Willes and Ireland were four countries.

England and Velvet were later united by marriage, and later, the last Tudor king, Elizabeth I, passed to her nephew, King James of Scotland, and Scotland and England were united. Later James's son Charlie was overthrown by Cromwell's Revolutionary Army, who conquered Ireland by force during Cromwell's reign. In 1923, the British Parliament decided to divide Ireland into 2 parts, with the 23 counties in the south becoming the Republic of Ireland as an independent state, and the 4 counties in the north remaining in the UK as Northern Ireland.

Great Britain is an island, which is made up of England, Scotland and Wales, and the so-called UK is the abbreviation of United Kingdom, which means United Kingdom.

a. China's vast commodity market and raw material origin.

b. The objective requirements for the expansion and development of British capitalism.

d. Britain's long-planned policy of armed aggression.

In 1840, under the pretext of Lin Zexu's Humen cigarette sales, the British decided to send an expeditionary force to invade China. In June 1840, 47 British ships and 4,000 army men, led by Rear Admiral George Yilu and commercial superintendent Yi Lu in China, arrived outside the Pearl River Estuary in Guangdong Province one after another, blockaded Haikou, and the Opium War began.