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The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom [2] and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States with significant influence on the rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. [3]
The Battle of Fishguard was a military invasion of Great Britain by Revolutionary France during the War of the First Coalition. The brief campaign, on 22–24 February 1797, is the most recent landing on British soil by a hostile foreign force, and thus is often referred to as the "last invasion of mainland Britain".
Southern British tribes before the Roman invasion. In common with other regions on the edge of the empire, Britain had enjoyed diplomatic and trading links with the Romans in the century since Julius Caesar's expeditions in 55 and 54 BC, and Roman economic and cultural influence was a significant part of the British late pre-Roman Iron Age, especially in the south.
British Music Invasion of the U.S. starting in the 1960s, with later invasions in the 1980s (Second British Invasion) and 2000s–2010s (Third British Invasion). Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The (1708) planned French invasion to put James Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) on the British throne as part of the War of the Spanish Succession. The Jacobite rising of 1715, from a Scottish base, in support of James Edward Stuart, defeated at Preston.
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In popular usage, the term British Invasion refers to a cultural phenomenon of the early and mid-1960s in which rock and pop music artists from the United Kingdom, such as the Beatles, and other aspects of British culture, such as James Bond, became popular in the United States. The term was applied by 1961 to developments in American auto racing.
British Empire portal; Modern history portal; Invasions by the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707-1800). For earlier invasions see Category:Invasions by England and Category:Invasions by Scotland. For later invasions, see Category:Invasions by the United Kingdom