Is the tale of the British the saddest of our times? Their defeat

>>76833019
>own a few port cities
>DAS RIGHT ALL OF DIS LAND BE OURS WE WUZ EMPIRES

>>76833019
L.O.L. no

Gott strafe England!

>Butthurt: the thread

What was the reason of Australian and African independence?

>>76833451

the british empire only existed in the vacuum created by the french revolution.
The british navy that "ruled the waves" was built and designed by émigrés french admirals and ship makers and was only allowed to exist because Napoléon had no competent admiral anymore, since they were all killed or exiled to England.
Most of English colonies were built in the failure of France caused by political unrest.

The whole 19th and 20th century were built on the fact that for the first time since the 5th century the balance of power preserved by France in continental Europe was broken thus allowing the anglos to destroy the world and the germs to destroy europe.

Spain is sadder.

>>76836712
this

>>76836712
At least we have something to be sad about.

>>76836423
Being on the other side of the world for one