[twigs]

thought Britain had been conquered by the Germans, the Americans...

Give me a date and I could make a case for either.

[Wallace T.]

Does the successful invasion of southern Britain by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes in the 6th Century count as a Germanic conquest? The tribes were of Germanic stock, and Lower Saxony, home of the Saxon tribe, is a state of modern Germany. (The homelands of the Angles and Jutes are in modern Denmark.) However, there was no nation of Germany at that time. Nor was there an England in the national sense, as it were the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who formed the core of the English nation. The Celtic Britons were expelled or subjugated, and successive invaders, the Vikings (Norwegians and Danes) and the Normans (Frenchmen predominantly of Scandinavian ancestry), were assimilated into the English nation.