Lonnehart wrote:
ozoneocean wrote:
Lonne, Britain does not celebrate it, hahahaha!
Ayes was having a laugh with you about the revolutionary war ;)
Heh… I should've seen that. So I'm going to guess that July 4 is a sore spot in British history? :)
More of a running gag. They could easily have retaken the USA in the War of 1812 but wise heads prevailed in Great Britain. The US was Britain's great trading partner and market. And with the US independent they didn't have to pay any upkeep and could instead make lots of money on the interest of loans made to the US government. The US as an independent country was more profitable than as a colony.
Let the colonials have their arrogant Anglophobia, we know who is really in charge. Monroe Doctrine of no European interference in the Western Hemisphere was totally enforced by the Royal Navy
Rule Britannia.
And most US presidents and Secretarys of state knew it.