fingerprints on an abandoned handrail

we have a diva in plain sight and nobody appreciates him, this is absolute criminal. non franco fans and anti francos need to do a heart check bc how can you not love the kid who forged charles leclerc's signature and speedran china

stuff england has lost

As Ricky Bobby's dad once said: If y'ain't first, you're last.

Battle of Maldon (991)

First Battle of Alton (1001)

Battle of Pinhoe (1001)

Battle of Ringmere (1010)

Sweyn Forkbeard's invasion of England (1013)

Cnut the Great's invasion of England (1016)

Battle of Carham (1018)

Battle of Llanllieni (1052)

Norman invasion of Wales (1065)

Norman conquest of England (1071)

The Breton War (1077)

The Vexin War (1087)

The Rouen Riot (1090)

The Second Vexin War (1098)

Anglo-Scottish War (1139)

Siege of Lisbon (1142)

Eystein II's expedition to England (1150)

The Anarchy (1154)

John's first expedition to Ireland (1185)

Anglo-French War (1189)

Battle of Radnor (1196)

French invasion of Normandy (1204)

Anglo-French War (1214)

Poitou War (1224)

English invasion of France (1230)

Breton Conflict (1234)

Saitonge War (1243)

Ninth Crusade (1272)

Gascon War (1303)

War of Saint-Sardos (1324)

Invasion of England (1326)

First War of Scottish Independence (1328)

Second War of Scottish Independence (1357)

First Hook and Cod War (1359)

Castilian Civil War (1369)

Third Fernandine War (1382)

Invasion of Castile by John of Gaunt (1388)

Second Hook and Cod War (1428)

Hundred Years' War (1453)

Anglo-Hanseatic War (1474)

Wars of the Roses (1485)

French-Breton War (1491)

War of the League of Cambrai (1514)

Italian War (1546)

Rough Wooing (1550)

Italian War (1559)

Siege of Leith (1560)

English expedition to France (1563)

Battle of Gibraltar (1563)

Battle of San Juan de Ulúa (1568)

Anglo-Scottish Wars (1575)

War of the Portuguese Secession (1583)

Anglo-Spanish War (1604)

Dutch Conquest of the Banda Islands (1621)

English expedition to Algiers (1621)

Anglo-French War (1629)

Anglo-Spanish War (1630)

Capture of Tortuga (1635)

Third attack on Providence Island Colony (1641)

Skirmish at the Isle of Wight (1647)

Battle of Balasore (1647)

Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1651)

Dutch-Portuguese War (1661)

Battle of Tangier (1662)

Battle of Tangier (1664)

Second Anglo-Dutch War (1667)

Third Anglo-Dutch War (1674)

Franco-Dutch War (1678)

Battle of Tangier (1675)

King Philip's War (1678)

Anglo-Algerian War (1682)

Raid on Charlestown (1684)

Anglo Siamese War (1688)

Glorious Revolution (1689)

Anglo-Mughal War (1690)

Action of 18 April 1695 (1695)

Nine Years' War (1697)

Beaver Wars (1701)

The Great Northern War (1721)

Anglo-Spanish War (1729)

Luso-Maratha Was (1732)

First Maroon War (1739)

The War of Jenkins' Ear (1748)

The War of the Austrian Succession (1748)

First Polygar War (1755)

Pontiac's War (1766)

First Anglo-Mysore War (1769)

First Carib War (1773)

American Revolution (1776)

First Anglo-Maratha War (1783)

Anglo-French War (1783)

Anglo-Spanish War (1783)

Second Anglo-Mysore War (1784)

War of the First Coalition (1797)

War of the Second Coalition (1802)

War of the Third Coalition (1806)

War of the Fourth Coalition (1807)

Ashanti-Fante War (1807)

Anglo-Spanish War (1808)

Anglo-Turkish War (1809)

War of the Fifth Coalition (1809)

Anglo-Russian War (1812)

War of 1812 (1815)

Barra War (1832)

First Carlist War (1840)

First Anglo-Afghan War (1842)

Flagstaff War (1846)

Whanganui Campaign (1847)

Battle of Berra (1852)

First Taranaki War (1861)

Second Anglo-Ashanti War (1864)

Second Taranaki War (1866)

Basuto Gun War (1881)

First Boer War (1881)

Second Samoan Civil War (1899)

Second Saudi-Rashidi War (1918)

Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)

Muscat Rebellion (1920)

Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War (1920)

Samakh Raid (1920)

Irish War of Independence (1921)

Burao Tax Revolt (1922)

Turkish War of Independence (1923)

Wanhsien incident (1926)

Palestine Emergency (1948)

Corfu Channel Incident (1948)

Civil War in Mandatory Palestine (1948)

Indonesian National Revolution (1949)

Egyptian Revolution (1952)

Korean War (1953)

Operation Jungle (1955)

Operation Valuable (1956)

Suez Crisis (1956)

Cyprus Emergency (1959)

First Cod War (1961)

Aden Emergency (1967)

The Second Cod War (1973)

The Third Cod War (1976)

Multinational Force in Lebanon (1984)

Bosnian War (1995)

The Troubles (1998)

War in Afghanistan (2021)

Operation Prosperity-Guardian (2025)

22 FIFA World Cups

65 Eurovisions

64 Super Bowls

894 Formula 1 races

5,661 Olympic events

please reblog with more stuff england has lost if you can keep listing :)