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[C9316]

"The invasion of Iceland, codenamed Operation Fork, was a British military operation conducted by the Royal Navy andRoyal Marines during World War II. The initial force was later followed by a larger occupation force consisting of 25,000 troops of the British and Canadian armies.^[1]

The invasion began in the early morning of 10 May 1940 with British troops disembarking in Reykjavík, capital of neutralIceland. Meeting no resistance, the troops moved quickly to disable communication networks, secure strategic locations, and arrest German citizens. Requisitioning local means of transportation, the troops moved to Hvalfjörður, Kaldaðarnes,Sandskeið, and Akranes to secure landing areas against the possibility of a German counterattack. In the following days air defence equipment was deployed in Reykjavík and a detachment of troops was sent to Akureyri.

In the evening of 10 May, the government of Iceland issued a protest, charging that the neutrality of Iceland had been "flagrantly violated" and "its independence infringed" and noting that compensation would be expected for all damage done. The British promised compensation, favourable business agreements, non-interference in Icelandic affairs, and the withdrawal of all forces at the end of the war. Resigning themselves to the situation, the Icelandic authorities provided the invasion force with de facto cooperation, though formally maintaining a policy of neutrality.

The invasion force consisted of 746 marines, ill-equipped and only partially trained.^[2] Although it succeeded in its mission, it was manifestly insufficient to defend an island of 103,000 square kilometres (40,000 sq mi). On 17 May 4,000 troops of theBritish Army arrived in Iceland to relieve the marines. This force was subsequently augmented, to a final force strength of 25,000. American forces relieved the British a year later, although the country was still officially a non-belligerent. They remained there for the duration of the war."

[X Equestris]

"The invasion of Iceland, codenamed Operation Fork, was a British military operation conducted by the Royal Navy andRoyal Marines during World War II. The initial force was later followed by a larger occupation force consisting of 25,000 troops of the British and Canadian armies.^[1]
The invasion began in the early morning of 10 May 1940 with British troops disembarking in Reykjavík, capital of neutralIceland. Meeting no resistance, the troops moved quickly to disable communication networks, secure strategic locations, and arrest German citizens. Requisitioning local means of transportation, the troops moved to Hvalfjörður, Kaldaðarnes,Sandskeið, and Akranes to secure landing areas against the possibility of a German counterattack. In the following days air defence equipment was deployed in Reykjavík and a detachment of troops was sent to Akureyri.
In the evening of 10 May, the government of Iceland issued a protest, charging that the neutrality of Iceland had been "flagrantly violated" and "its independence infringed" and noting that compensation would be expected for all damage done. The British promised compensation, favourable business agreements, non-interference in Icelandic affairs, and the withdrawal of all forces at the end of the war. Resigning themselves to the situation, the Icelandic authorities provided the invasion force with de facto cooperation, though formally maintaining a policy of neutrality.
The invasion force consisted of 746 marines, ill-equipped and only partially trained.^[2] Although it succeeded in its mission, it was manifestly insufficient to defend an island of 103,000 square kilometres (40,000 sq mi). On 17 May 4,000 troops of theBritish Army arrived in Iceland to relieve the marines. This force was subsequently augmented, to a final force strength of 25,000. American forces relieved the British a year later, although the country was still officially a non-belligerent. They remained there for the duration of the war."

On a similar note:

http://en.m.wikipedi...in_World_War_II

[Aimi]

The Brits had a habit of doing that - committing flagrant violations of neutrality, including actual invasions and conquest, while hypocritically harping on how their enemies did the same thing.

Germany invaded neutral Belgium in the First World War; Britain did the same to Greece (arguably even worse, because the Brits helped instigate a Greek civil war in the process). British naval forces also violated Dutch neutrality, Norwegian neutrality, Danish neutrality, and Swedish neutrality, while at the same time breaking international naval law with their distant blockade of the German coast. Britain imposed a blockade on then-neutral Ottoman Turkey in the fall of 1914, while backing anti-Ottoman rebellions and moving troops to the Turkish frontier in the Sinai and the Gulf as a 'precautionary measure' (read: deliberate provocation to get the Turks to fight so that their empire could be carved up by the Entente powers) - under those circumstances, it's not hard to see why the Ottoman Empire went to war within a few months.

Similar events happened in the Second World War in Iceland and Greenland, as mentioned, and in Iran. When France dropped out of the war in June 1940, the Royal Navy attacked the then-neutral French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir and Dakar on the pretext that they believed the French were about to surrender their fleet to the Nazis. (No such plans were in the works, although the Germans and Italians might have tried to seize the ships by some other means.) And the Nazi invasion of Norway in 1940 arguably happened primarily because Hitler was correctly worried that the British would beat him to the punch. Much of Germany's iron ore came from the Gällivare, Kiruna, and Malmberget mines in northern neutral Sweden. In fact, the Germans got the jump on the British by a single day; the Royal Navy had prepared a mining expedition in Norwegian territorial waters to block the iron supply line and provoke a response by the Germans and the Norwegians, which would serve as a pretext for a British occupation of Norway. The mining operation went off without a hitch regardless of the Nazis' plans, but the subsequent Allied occupation ran into significantly greater difficulties.

[BioWareM0d13]

An ancient Roman mosaic...

 

 

I love the reaction of the crone on the far right. I wonder if it was supposed to be as humorous to a Roman viewer as it would be to a modern person?

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Say Mongols ruined half of China and Middle East and nobody bats an eye.

Say women can't possibly do heavy jobs and everyone loses their minds.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

http://weknowmemes.c...earn-in-school/

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

The Brits had a habit of doing that - committing flagrant violations of neutrality, including actual invasions and conquest, while hypocritically harping on how their enemies did the same thing.

Germany invaded neutral Belgium in the First World War; Britain did the same to Greece (arguably even worse, because the Brits helped instigate a Greek civil war in the process). British naval forces also violated Dutch neutrality, Norwegian neutrality, Danish neutrality, and Swedish neutrality, while at the same time breaking international naval law with their distant blockade of the German coast. Britain imposed a blockade on then-neutral Ottoman Turkey in the fall of 1914, while backing anti-Ottoman rebellions and moving troops to the Turkish frontier in the Sinai and the Gulf as a 'precautionary measure' (read: deliberate provocation to get the Turks to fight so that their empire could be carved up by the Entente powers) - under those circumstances, it's not hard to see why the Ottoman Empire went to war within a few months.

Similar events happened in the Second World War in Iceland and Greenland, as mentioned, and in Iran. When France dropped out of the war in June 1940, the Royal Navy attacked the then-neutral French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir and Dakar on the pretext that they believed the French were about to surrender their fleet to the Nazis. (No such plans were in the works, although the Germans and Italians might have tried to seize the ships by some other means.) And the Nazi invasion of Norway in 1940 arguably happened primarily because Hitler was correctly worried that the British would beat him to the punch. Much of Germany's iron ore came from the Gällivare, Kiruna, and Malmberget mines in northern neutral Sweden. In fact, the Germans got the jump on the British by a single day; the Royal Navy had prepared a mining expedition in Norwegian territorial waters to block the iron supply line and provoke a response by the Germans and the Norwegians, which would serve as a pretext for a British occupation of Norway. The mining operation went off without a hitch regardless of the Nazis' plans, but the subsequent Allied occupation ran into significantly greater difficulties.

 

They abused Iran in WW1 too and used Iran's grain for their own purposes, made a huge famine in the country.

 

http://www.amazon.co...9/dp/0761826335

 

http://en.wikipedia....List_of_famines

[Steelcan]

the British causing famines and not caring is hardly recent news, see Irish history

[mybudgee]

the British causing famines and not caring is hardly recent news, see Irish history

* Irish Rage Intensifies*

 

[Gago]

Back in 2011 in the Bulgarian city of Varna a donkey was candidate for a mayor of the city.

 

In neighboring Macedonia a bear was convicted for theft of honey by a local court in 2008.

[PhroXenGold]

the British causing famines and not caring is hardly recent news, see Irish history

 

The Irish famine was....a lot more complicated than you suggest (as is pretty much everything in history). While the British certainly weren't blameless, and could've certainly done more to help the people of Ireland, many of the underlying causes of the famine came from within Ireland itself. In particular, the farming practices encouraged by the Irish elites left the nation extremely vulnerable to famine and then proceeded to exasperate the situation.

[X Equestris]

I present to you the United States Camel Corps:

https://en.m.wikiped...tes_Camel_Corps

It began as an experiment to see if camels would be more effective as pack animals than horses in the desert southwest. While the camels did prove effective, they spooked horses and had rather poor dispositions towards many of their handlers. The project was eventually shelved at about the same time that the Civil War broke out. Some of the camels were sold to private owners, while others escaped into the wilderness. For a time, there was a population of feral camels in the southwest. The last sighting of such a camel was in 1941, near Douglas, Texas.

[Aimi]

The Irish famine was....a lot more complicated than you suggest (as is pretty much everything in history). While the British certainly weren't blameless, and could've certainly done more to help the people of Ireland, many of the underlying causes of the famine came from within Ireland itself. In particular, the farming practices encouraged by the Irish elites left the nation extremely vulnerable to famine and then proceeded to exasperate the situation.

Most of those "Irish" landholding elites were Anglo-Irish, English, and Scots-Irish, and they formed a distinctive socio-political class with religious distinctions often called (by Irish Catholics) the "Protestant Ascendancy". For most of the last five hundred years of Irish history, the Ascendancy was largely the tool of the English-British state in imposing its will on Irish Catholics. Pointing out the cleavages between official government policy and the actions of the Protestant Irish landholding class - even though they did exist - misses the forest for the trees. Separating Westminster from the Ascendancy while lumping the Ascendancy in with the Catholic underclass is just silly.

The blight of the 1840s in Ireland was an exogenous shock in the form of a natural disaster, dramatically exacerbated by highly unfavorable social conditions imposed by an alien overclass, and made even worse by a British government that mostly did not care about the crisis except when it had the opportunity to make it worse in the pursuit of a policy of population control and the elimination of undesirable elements. (It should be said that this last was mostly an instance of inaction rather than positive action; it's hard to prove that anybody in the Russell government actually worked to exterminate the Irish, but it made for an excellent pretext to avoid positive action to help them, even positive actions that previous British governments had taken during famines in Ireland.) It is a perfectly acceptable instance of pointing to famine as an example of a British imperial policy drifting back and forth between monstrous incompetence and monstrous cruelty. There are others, of course, like the many famines in British India under the EIC and the Raj.

[Decepticon Leader Sully]

Concentration camps were a British invention not as commonly thought a German one.

 https://en.wikipedia...Second_Boer_War

[PhroXenGold]

Concentration camps were a British invention not as commonly thought a German one.

 https://en.wikipedia...Second_Boer_War

 

Actually, they were invented by the Spanish....

http://www.loc.gov/r...centration.html

[Decepticon Leader Sully]

Actually, they were invented by the Spanish....

http://www.loc.gov/r...centration.html

Well you live and lern. i was taught in school it was a British thing.  

[PhroXenGold]

Heh, to be honest, I'm waiting for someone to come along and tell me that it was actually someone else before the Spanish

[Beerfish]

An ancient Roman mosaic...

 

 

I love the reaction of the crone on the far right. I wonder if it was supposed to be as humorous to a Roman viewer as it would be to a modern person?

Looks like me after another disconnect playing Dragon age mp.

[Decepticon Leader Sully]

Heh, to be honest, I'm waiting for someone to come along and tell me that it was actually someone else before the Spanish

Roman? Cahmon its always the Romans.

[Chewin]

Heh, to be honest, I'm waiting for someone to come along and tell me that it was actually someone else before the Spanish

 

Well depends on how you coin the term. Referring to it specifically, the Spanish-American War would be the event where the English term 'concentration camp' originated from (as your link mentioned, from the Spanish reconcentrados), however the practice of interning a large group of troublesome people can be dated back to the time of the Assyrian Empire in the 1st century BCE. 

 

You can read here more about force settlement, among other things.

[Decepticon Leader Sully]

Ok we need more funny stuff.

 

In 1911 5ft11 Katie Sandwina was a famous strong-woman and could lift 286lbs

And once carried a 1,200 pound cannon on her sholder and performed Military rifle drill useing her 160 pound Husband Max as her Rifle. 

[Heimdall]

In Washington D.C., it was and still is illegal to go fishing while riding a horse.

 

...Not history, but is that weird enough?

[X Equestris]

In Washington D.C., it was and still is illegal to go fishing while riding a horse.
 
...Not history, but is that weird enough?

I can one up that.

Whaling is illegal. In Oklahoma. Why this law exists, I have no clue. We're a land-locked state with no whale population, and I'm pretty sure we never had one.

[Decepticon Leader Sully]

Ddureing the Victorian era womens bearknuckle boxing awa a verry popular spectator event.

[Fidite Nemini]

I can one up that.

Whaling is illegal. In Oklahoma. Why this law exists, I have no clue. We're a land-locked state with no whale population, and I'm pretty sure we never had one.

 

Oklahoma Aquarium just covering its bases I presume ...