Why couldn't France conquer the Channel Islands. They're

muh english navy.

>>1044263
I've heard you can swim there from France.

>>1044267

You can swin the whole channel.

Have the islands ever been any important for basing fleets in or anything? Can see why the French wouldn't like to waste troops at it if they wouldn't gain much of it anyway
And it's not like they are visible at most maps, so no need to annex them to make the map look prettier like the USA did with Florida.

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>>1044263
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jersey

> The British had too many troops for the battle, a British soldier later saying that a third of the British troops would have been more than enough to destroy the French army. Many British soldiers, confused and having nothing to shoot at, fired most of their shots into the air.

>>1044276
>You can swin the whole channel.
>His first attempt ended in failure, but on 25 August 1875, he started from Admiralty Pier in Dover and made the crossing in 21 hours and 45 minutes, despite challenging tides (which delayed him for 5 hours) and a jellyfish sting
>21 hours

Fuck that.

>>1044259
Because they would be starting war with a navel superpower for some tiny islands worth shit. Plus most of the islanders are English, you would have to have a military presence to quell rebellions. What's the point

Much more English influence

>>1044839
That tend to happen when you outnumber the enemy almost 3 to 1 in a low numbers battle...

>>1044259
When was the last time they tried to conquer them?

Hitler seems to have no trouble when he tried.

>>1046653
Mainly because Britain let the Germans take them.

>>1046775
>implying they could have stopped them

>>1046653
>When was the last time they tried to conquer them?

Nappy.