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Why wasn't he able to conquer Britain?


He conquered pretty much everywhere else (except Switzerland).

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RAF air raids trashed all his landing craft while the luftwaffe couldn't get air superiority.

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supply chains are hard, let alone amphibious supply chains. The British controlled at least some parts of the channel and the coast was fortified. then the RAF air superiority

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Another reason was that they were not able to successfully stop war materiel being imported from the Colonies.

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This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands.

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You sound as if you WANTED Britain to be conquered, as if... somehow (snickers) ... we couldn't hold off Hitler by ourselves!

Newsflash: we could, and we didn't need anybody else's help except to invade THEM. Got it?

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