Why did British colonize more lands than French or other european nation ?

Answer 1

The strength of the royal navy and eventually the industrial revolution helped cement our empire in place.

The british also were by and large wiser and more humane rulers of foreign lands,(once conquered),often ruling through local elites in exchange for power concession.
The french preferred to rule the natives by brutal dominance,ultimately alienating themselves.

the british empire has given the world much to be thankful for.The darkest corners of the globe ,were given language,engineering,medicine, government.
Hygeine and schools.

Unfortunately,many former non-white colonies given independence are now back to hitting each other over the head with clubs!

Answer 2

The British didn't at least at 1st.

In terms of colonisation Britain was a relative late comer, with the Dutch, French and most notably Spanish all having more colonies than us until the mid 18th century. At this point Britains only colonies were those in North America, and a few Caribbean Islands. The turning point came after the Seven years war when Britain won New France (Canada), the French Caribbean Islands, and French and Dutch held India.

This spurred Britain on to more colonisation as we had become a coloial trading empire over night. So with the loss of the North American colonies we took colonies in the Far East, (Burma, Sigapore, Mayasia etc) and even Australia. Though it is important to note that the French arrived before the British in Australia (After Captain Cook discovered it) and decided not to set up a coloney there as it was useless land.

Also we were not the only country with an Empire. The French owned most of North West Africa and Indo China (Vietnam) even til after ww2. The Spanish owned much of South America for a long time, the Dutch had the Dutch West Indies and the Dutch East Indies, the Americans had the Phillipines, and the Austrians even owned Mexico for a short period.

Answer 3

The british were far better seaman and the royal navy dominated the seas.To maintain overseas empires required sea power.With the industrial revolution Britain became wealthy by exporting goods world wide and the technolodgy assisted in equiping and financing the military means to take other countries with riches which could be used to make the empire ever larger whilst making Britain ever wealthier.We still see the remains of this today with the UK controlling gold,diamond and other mining operations worldwideomostly in countries previously Brit Empire.

Answer 4

A simplistic comment:
Well the Brits were keen on having lots of safe harbors & places to get fresh food when skurrying around trading (money making), especial when they got knocked by bad weather. They did not like the French, so there probably was a very comptitive element in there as well.

Answer 5

The French did get there share. Canada, the French Polynesian Islands, Haiti, etc.
The real question is not why did the British get more. It is why none of the British colonies wanted them to continue their rule. Most revolted.

Answer 6

British soldiers were more loyal to their kings
Britishers were more clever
They influenced the people scientifically, spiritually and politically, like protestants, Darwin's false theory in science, by showing their soldiers that the Britishers are only humans, other all are just animals, so they not hesitate to kill others, as they produced the biggest sized monkey's skull in British lands.
They introduced the false impression of Independence and democracy showing that people have power, But they are the one ruling behind the screen. Independence and democracy is just a false drama.
Britishers are still ruling over the world, behind the screen by intelligence services of the world, including US CIA.

Answer 7

1. The strength of their navy as an Island nation.
2. The nation of shopkeepers that wanted to trade.
3. Their sense of unity and 'superiority of culture' under one ruler..the monarch.
4. The lack of land borders and the resulting conflicts over territory nearer to home.t
5. The reward system of honours and wealth for those who robbed, raped and pillaged in the name of the monarch.

Answer 8

The Brits are more violent then the French and most colonies were taken by force

Answer 9

We had more greed! (yes I'm British)
And the French were (and still are) cowardly.

Answer 10

Infact, portuguese had entire Brazil (5th country in the world), and countries of Africa, few countries in South Asia.

French had part of Canada, Few island in Caraibe, North Africa and few countries in south Asia

Spain, probably represents largest one: Almost entire Latin America (Central and south) (except Brazil)
Part of North america too.

Russia had under URSS widest area under their control for almost a century...

Judge only based on USA and Australia are not exactly best match to More lands.....
Widest area, bigger profits, fought for it, hard colonization (Groeland), time of control.... (Hitler had almost entire Europe ehhehe French had Cambodja and Vietnam)