Invasion of England

The term Invasion of England may refer to the following planned or actual invasions, successful or otherwise:

• Iron Age Celtic settlement of Great Britain and Ireland
• The 55 and 54 BC Caesar's invasions of Britain.
• The 43 AD Roman invasion of Britain.
• The 296 Roman invasion during Carausian Revolt.
• The fifth to sixth century Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain
• The eighth to eleventh century invasions of the British isles by the Vikings.
• The 1066 Norman conquest of England under William the Conqueror.
• The 1216 invasion of England by Louis VIII of France and Alexander II of Scotland, during the First Barons' War.
• The 1326 invasion of England by Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer, leading to Isabella's regency until the ascendance of her son, Edward III.
• The 1386 invasion by France was organised but never executed during the Hundred Years War.
• The 1545 French invasion of the Isle of Wight during the Italian Wars.
• The 1588 Spanish Armada was a failed invasion of England after it was heavily defeated by storms and the English fleet.
• The 1667 raid of Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch war.
• The 1685 landing in England by the Duke of Monmouth and his supporters during the Monmouth Rebellion
• The 1688 invasion of England by the Dutch Republic, also known as the Glorious Revolution. (last successful invasion of England)
• The 1690 attack by the French on Teignmouth, Devon, which was the last foreign invasion of England.
• The 1704 invasion of Guernsey by Louis XIV's Third Army, known as Les Seinges Rose.
• The 1708 planned French Invasion to put James Edward Stuart on the British throne as part of the War of the Spanish Succession.
• The 1719 Spanish Invasion of Britain during the War of the Quadruple Alliance defeated at the Battle of Glen Shiel.
• The 1744 planned French invasion of Britain as part of the Austrian War of Succession.
• The 1745 French-backed Jacobite invasion of Britain led by Bonnie Prince Charlie.
• The 1759 planned French invasion halted by their naval defeat to Britain at the Battle of Quiberon Bay.^[1]
• The 1778–1783 never executed Franco-Spanish plans to invade Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War.
• The 1803–1805 planned but never executed Napoleonic invasion of Britain.
• The 1940 partially planned but never executed German Invasion of England, better known as Operation Seelöwe.

Fiction

There have been numerous portrayals of an invasion of Britain in fiction including:

Films

• Went the Day Well? (1942)
• It Happened Here, a 1966 film portraying a Nazi invasion
• Jackboots on Whitehall (2009)

Books

• SS-GB by Len Deighton
• The Swoop! by P. G. Wodehouse
• Asterix in Britain portraying a Roman
• The Long White Winter by Sebastian Faulks
• The Battle of Dorking by George Tomkyns Chesney

See also

• Prehistoric settlement of the British Isles
• Historical immigration to Great Britain
• Invasion of Ireland (disambiguation)

References