Which Country has spent the longest Time not under Occupation

Has Canada Ever Been Occupied? Or for that matter any Non-Mexican Central or South American Country? they have been around since the early 1800's and I don't think that aside from a quick occupation of Argentina by the British that any of them have had any significant occupation.
 
Malta seems to have not been occupied since the Napoleonic War by the French, which Wiki tells me were driven out in 1800. So that makes it 209 years.
 
We owned Canada for a long time, the Americans invaded Mexico.

Yeah the British owned it but it wasn't under occupation it was just a dominion. Also the French invaded Mexico during the Civil War. I also know that Peru and Ecuador went to war some time but I don't know if it resulted in occupation.
 
IIRC from history class, America invaded Canada in the War Of 1812...

Before that it was invaded and occupied by the British/American forces in the Seven Years' War. ;)
 
Yeah but in 1812 A) it wasn't completely occupied or else it would have became part of the US B) had been unoccupied for since the American Revolution C) The US had Washington burned to the ground but it is considered unoccupied. Also even if we go back to 1812 it has been unoccupied for longer than Brazil anyways.
 
Has Canada Ever Been Occupied? Or for that matter any Non-Mexican Central or South American Country? they have been around since the early 1800's and I don't think that aside from a quick occupation of Argentina by the British that any of them have had any significant occupation.

You might consider Peru to have been occupied by Chile, if only for a short time, at the end of the War of the Pacific. Also, Paraguay was completely destroyed during the War of the Triple Alliance, and the only reason it continued to exist at all was to continue to be a buffer state between Argentina and Brazil. Also in that same war, Paraguay occupied parts of Uruguay for a time. I don't know about the course of the 1940's war between Peru and Ecuador, but I imagine something bad must've happened to Ecuador to make it give up half its territory, so I would guess that it included occupation.
 
Or for that matter any Non-Mexican Central or South American Country?
The US has done a few:
Panama in '90
Nicaragua and Hunduras in the early 20th century

In the Caribbean you have Haiti and Cuba in the early 20th century, and Grenada much more recently.
 
IIRC from history class, America invaded Canada in the War Of 1812...

And Canada invaded the US too. Detroit was captured, for instance.

The US campaigns to invade Canada were not occupation, they didn't have the capability to do more than launch what was essentially a large raid. Same as the British landing that seized Washington; they didn't have the ability to hang around and defend the area, just do a bit of burning and pillaging.

Before that it was invaded and occupied by the British/American forces in the Seven Years' War. ;)

No, that was New France. Different country that happened to be on the same land (the French people are still there, but New France is long gone, and Quebec is not its succesor - Quebec was created by the British). Canada, as a state, traces its existance back to British North America, no earlier than 1867. The various provinces, on the other hand, trace their existance back to various colonies of Britain that existed before 1867 (or, in some cases, were created by Canada later on, such as Alberta). Canada is the occupation of New France, in a sense.

But Canada is sort of outside this question. I figure for the question to even really be meaningul, we have to be talking about sovereign nations rather than colonies, and Canada wasn't really independant until after WW1. So that particular question only has meaning with respect to Canada from 1931, by most reckonings (Canadian independance is a bit of a muddled question - most count it from the Statute of Westminster in '31, although you could date it informally to the 1926 Balfour Declaration, or if you wanted to get anally technical, to 1982).
 
IIRC from history class, America invaded Canada in the War Of 1812...

Before that it was invaded and occupied by the British/American forces in the Seven Years' War. ;)

and after that, it was still a British Government until 1867 anyway. And you say occupy? They sent a few invasions into Ontario and Quebec, only to be pushed back to the U.S by military greats such as Salaberry.At the very end of the war of 1812, Britain held part of Michigan and Georgia, and northern New England, while the U.S held the Canadian side of The Niagara Falls. Not an occupation.
From whom did the British take Lower Canada? The French.
 
MADAGASCAR :smug:
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I never realised the white band was larger than the blue band.
Or is it an optical illusion?
 
I never realised the white band was larger than the blue band.
Or is it an optical illusion?
I think it's an optical illusion, but it might just be a crummy flagmaker. :dunno:
 
madagascar-french to 1960

my sumission: antarctica-80 million years since independence from australia. and 2000 scientists doesnt count as occupation. (ok, not really a country, but you didn't define that, and you seem to want to define everything, so I claim victory)
 
So no, the political centre of Sweden, or the financial, administrative or population ones, have never been under foreign occupation as an effect of military conquest.
Hey, together with our Karelian brothers we burned down your capitol back in 1187! :mad:
But then we hardly stayed for 6 months either, so I guess you can keep the honor of victory. :salute:
 
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