According to an analysis by historian Stuart Laycock, that statement was once eerily accurate. All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To found that there are only 22 countries Britain never invaded, as shown in this Statista map.
"Other countries could write similar books – but they would be much shorter. I don't think anyone could match this, although the Americans had a later start and have been working hard on it in the twentieth century," Laycock said of his research.
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