News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain. Parent comment

Re:Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain by Someone on Monday May 04, 2015 @01:07PM (#9487464)
I don't recall, either, and even Wikipedia doesn't have much, but apparently, there was http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Military_Mission_to_P.... There also is operation Freston, an SOE operation into Poland in 1944. In neither case, I don't think the Brits fought against Poles, but certainly in the second case (at least, that's what the many links with limited information point at), they invaded Poland. Operation Freston even has a book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Operation-Freston-British-Military-M...

(Given the scarce information, this could still be a hoax, but if so, I fell for it)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain by mariusz79 on Monday May 04, 2015 @02:14PM (#9487962)
Well, by invasion I consider attack against a specific country. Either one of does not fit this definition.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain by acqq on Monday May 04, 2015 @04:14PM (#9488836)
From the comment on Amazon:

> Mac McAleer: The author deliberately stretches the definition of "invaded" to include short military interventions and actions by pirates, privateers and armed explorers.

[ Parent | on HN ]