Invasion

[the millster]

How many times have we actually been successfully invaded?

[Zen]

Depends on your meaning of we ?
Nationally or your Region /

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Invasion s_of_England

[vehelpfulguy]

Remember the Vikings made hundreds of raids, mainly to the North East of England, a 1,000 years or so ago, do you count each of those as an invasion.

The link Zen put to Wikipedia does not seem to include when William of Orange "invaded" England.

Although he had been invited here by protestants to become King of England he was still not sure what he would find when he got here so brought plenty of ships and men.

As it happens he met no opposition and so made his way to London where he and his wife Mary ruled.

But it was still an invasion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_En gland

[red armada]

romans,vikings,saxons and the normans spring to mind immediately but don't forget that the germans did succeed in invading the channel islands during ww2 and held them for three years.

[Count_Emmup]

Historians now consider that the Saxons were a large scale (and unopposed) immigration.

There is no archaeological evidence of any battles from that era.

[Famous5]

Henry Tudor (Henry VII) had been living in exile in France and returned with a group of followers to claim the throne from Richard III

[Kromovaracun]

What do you mean ?

Do you mean the British Isles themselves? In that case, I'd say 1688 - when William of Orange took the throne.

British soil? Probably 1983 with the Argentinian invasion of the Fawklands (the invasion itself was a success - keeping it is something different).