Invasion of England

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

Pre English Settlement of parts of Britain

The 55 and 54 BC Caesar's invasions of Britain.
The 43 AD Roman conquest of Britain.
The 296 Roman invasion during Carausian Revolt.
The fifth to sixth century Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain

Post English settlement of parts 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.
Various invasions by the Scots from 1314-1513 during the Wars of Scottish Independence, the Hundred Years' War, and further Anglo-Scottish Wars.
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 1487 invasion from Ireland of the pretender Lambert Simnel.
The 1495 landing with troops at Deal by Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, the rightful King.
The 1513 invasion of England by the Scots under James IV, which culminated in the Battle of Flodden
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 on the Medway and Felixstowe Landguard during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.^[1]
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.
The 1704 invasion of Guernsey by Louis XIV's Third Army, known as Les Seinges Rose.

Following the Acts of Union 1707

The (1708) planned French Invasion to put James Edward Stuart on the British throne as part of the War of the Spanish Succession.
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 by Britain at the Battle of Quiberon Bay.^[2]
The (1779) 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 Sea Lion.

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)
How I now live American film depicting the invasion of England by unknown terrorists

Books

SS-GB by Len Deighton
The Swoop! by P. G. Wodehouse
Asterix in Britain portraying a Roman
Rule Britannia by Daphne du Maurier - an invasion by the United States
The Long White Winter by Sebastian Faulks
The Battle of Dorking by George Tomkyns Chesney
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Resistance by Owen Sheers

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