>sending swarms of pirates to plunder Spanish treasure fleets
>unfair bullshit tactics used against the Armada like deploying fire boats
>start War of Jenkins' Ear after we cut the ear off one of their pirate captains
>actively support rebellion of our colonies in Latin America so they could sell crap there (the colonies were normally closed to foreign shipping)
>threaten invasion of Spain during WWII when we were poor and in ruins from the civil war
>some British writer invented the meme about how Africa starts at the Pyrenees
ITT: Discuss crimes Great Shitain has committed against your country
Alexander Young
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Gavin Carter
u mad?
Alexander Sullivan
all I detect is envy
Eli Carter
Read about the actions leading up to the American Revolution. They wanted the colonies to be nothing but a source of raw materials for their homegrown industry.
Dominic Sanders
>some British writer invented the meme about how Africa starts at the Pyrenees
haha quite based if i do say so myself
Dylan Price
>inb4 India
Eli Scott
>they stole the gold we stole
>they fucked up our invasion fleet waaah not fair not fair
>they didn't like us mutilating people
>they supported rebellion in our colonies after we did the exact same thing to them
>they threatened us with the exact same thing we tried to do to them but it's not fair because we're so poor now
>they told the truth
Weirdo johnny foreigner freaks need to stop being so obsessed with us. Our biggest "crime" is not killing all your ancestors when we had the chance.
Jack Watson
>>sending swarms of pirates to plunder Spanish treasure fleets
Everyone was doing that
>>unfair bullshit tactics used against the Armada like deploying fire boats
Don't hate the player hate the game
>>start War of Jenkins' Ear after we cut the ear off one of their pirate captains
>cut off someone's ear
>expect no retaliation
>>actively support rebellion of our colonies in Latin America so they could sell crap there (the colonies were normally closed to foreign shipping)
Oh you mean like you did with the US
>>threaten invasion of Spain during WWII when we were poor and in ruins from the civil war
>>some British writer invented the meme about how Africa starts at the Pyrenees
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Wyatt Foster
>they stole the gold we stole
lol this one always gets me. wahh how dare you steal gold we stole in the first place, pirateessssssss. fucking pull the other one dago
Ayden Howard
I'm pretty sure it was Stalin who wanted Franco taken out but he couldn't convince the US and Britain to do. Besides, it wasn't exactly an easy thing to do. Spain had a lot of war damage but the army was battle hardened and would not have surrendered without a fight.
Spain is not exactly tiny either, it's about the size of California and quite mountainous.
Benjamin Walker
The War of Jenkins' Ear had its roots in a few decades earlier when the Spanish were becoming unnerved at the English colonies getting too close to Florida. They raided the Carolinas numerous times but by the start of the 18th century the latter were too strong and populated to be easily conquered.
So they captured some English captain, hacked his ear off with a sword, and told him "Were your king here, I would do the same to him." He presented his severed ear to the House of Commons which led to an outcry for war. It wasn't much of a war though, mostly just raids and some naval clashes.
Zachary Walker
>killed innocent colonists because they cant handle a little banter and some rocks
>made us pay for their stupid tea
>taxation without representation
>kept antagonizing the injuns and made us fight the french for them
>gave us the boston accent
Henry Howard
>Using fireships
I hope you know that the Spanish used them aswell and just about every European navy
Dylan Jackson
>kidnapping American sailors for their navy
Joshua Taylor
>made us house limey soldiers in our homes for free
Benjamin White
>sending swarms of pirates to plunder Spanish treasure fleets
aka stealing stolen gold
>unfair bullshit tactics used against the Armada like deploying fire boats
>threaten invasion of Spain during WWII when we were poor and in ruins from the civil war
aka it's sooooo unfair that they stopped us from invading them and it's also somehow unfair that they threatened to invade us as well
nice cognitive dissonance you monkey
Asher Wilson
>tfw born too late to mess with johnny foreigner in any of the ways mentioned itt
Liam Jackson
Sir Francis Drake was a literal pirate and war criminal that Queen Elizabeth knighted. He finally died a painful death from dysentery in an unsuccessful raid on San Juan. Good riddance.
Aaron Lewis
>dies
>400 years later pedro is STILL seething like fuck about him
what an absolute legend
Austin Fisher
>mutilating people
>retaliation
You're aware that the usual punishment for piracy in the 1700s was the rope, right? Jenkins was lucky to lose only his ear.
Lincoln Reyes
>Spain is bitching about a fucking boulder by the sea
Samuel Rivera
Based Mexico
Carter Thompson
To be honest everyone did nasty things in war back then. You heard of the stuff the Duke of Alba did in the Netherlands?
Chase Bailey
Jack Stewart
Alva and as long as you were Catholic you were fine
Grayson Evans
>some British writer invented the meme about how Africa starts at the Pyrenees
Wasn't that a French guy though?
Carson Fisher
In the War of 1812 they claimed we cheated because our frigates had too many guns on them to be classed as frigates.
Dylan Lee
>actively support rebellion of our colonies in Latin America so they could sell crap there
You weren't going to hold onto the colonies anyway because you were starving and in ruins from the Napoleonic Wars. When your retard king wanted to send the fleet to suppress the revolts in South America, the sailors mutinied and refused to go.
Isaac Nelson
unironically nothing bad, britain has only done good for australia. even nuking the aboriginals was more our cuck government rolling over and begging for it to happen.
Jaxon White
>nuking the aboriginals
shit did this really happen? based
Michael Kelly