What does Britain think of America's Independence War?

What does Britain think of America's Independence War?

Do schools in Britian talk about it? If so, how?

I don't think yuropoors think in general. They have a nanny state to do that for them.

Eh, you chimped out over paying taxes to keep you safe.

And we don't really bring it up in schools.

>triggered

Quantity doesn't mean quality, you know.

It was very impressive, a bunch of peasants starving for freedom stood against the biggest empire on earth and won.......

...but not really

Fuck off Tsadiusz you know I didn't mean east America.

i had no idea that the us used to be part of the uk until 1 year ago most people dont even know
its not taught or thought about

Subtle, I like it.

Remember when you guys sold us half the continent for 18 dollars? That was pretty dope.

We were literally never part of the UK.

>$18
The total cost of the Louisiana Purchase in today's money was $250,000,000 USD.
Still a hell of a bargain considering that it brought in 530,000,000 acres, which at the average cost of an acre in the US, $4,130, it would today be worth over $2.1 trillion.

Are you thinking of Manhattan island..?

>Manhattan island
>entire continent

New Yorkers think so
And the Louisians Purchase was only a quater of the total US land owned today. Not the whole continent.

We don't, theres more important stuff to learn about.

>Manhattan island
>$18 worth of beads

Like the direction of Mecca.

>a quater

Try a third

Damn, this Canadian is schooling us on our own history

You forgot to add Alaska's acreage
But the Louisiana Purchase was exactly 26% of the total current landmass, not 33%

Yeah, he must have access to wikipedia.

It's not from Wikipedia, not directly anyway, I'm a historian and specialising in North America from colonisation to the mid 20th century.

>What does Britain think of America's Independence War?

I think it's amazing we lasted so long against an alliance that powerful

>It's not from Wikipedia
Well, it can be. Start editing.

Top kek, you fucking amateur
But I guess it was an impressive feat for you.
After all, isnt that the only war you ever fought without allies?

>But I guess it was an impressive feat for you.
It was

>After all, isnt that the only war you ever fought without allies?
Yes usually, because of our small land army

One of the reasons we were so successful after the US got independence (Second British Empire) is because the British government learnt its lesson that being isolated is a bad idea.

Sorry misread your question

>After all, isnt that the only war you ever fought without allies?
There were quite a few 1 vs 1 wars where we didn't have allies. Against several enemies the American Revolutionary War is one of the very few we fought without allies.

Although there were periods in the Napoleonic Wars and WW2 where Britain was alone and isolated for a while.

it was an english civil war

>implying we're english
Take that back you bucktoothed queen fucker.

>There were quite a few 1 vs 1 wars where we didn't have allies

Yeah, against Zulus, Zanzibar n shiet
But the last European war you fought in 1vs1 was the HYW if I recall correctly

>WWII
>Alone and isolated

Never

the men who fought for american independence absolutely were english and considered themselves english

the funny thing is i have more in common with the first americans than the vast majority of american citizens

>the men who fought for american independence absolutely were english and considered themselves english
Then how did they get guns?

shit banter

It was a civil war in North America while our side in the civil war was simultanously fighting wars in India, in several world oceans, and attempting to hold off an Armada that was headed for Great Britain itself

Nah that's not true. In this pic I posted you can see a 1 vs 1 war against Spain in the 18th century.

True, I should have said alone except for the Empire and Commonwealth. Canada is one of our best allies because you helped us after you were actually independent

>Then how did they get guns?

France began providing arms and ammunition as early as 1776. In early 1777, months before Saratoga, the French sent American colonists 25,000 uniforms and pairs of boots, hundreds of cannons, and thousands of muskets -- all stuff that the colonists would've had a hard time surviving without, and all stuff they had no access to on their own.

France provided a whopping 90 percent of the rebels' gunpowder. Without France, the entire American Revolution would have devolved into a bunch of dudes swinging their muskets as clubs within weeks.

Still, the most important French contribution to the revolution was the least visible to Americans. The reason France pampered the Patriots was always selfish. They were out to weaken the British forces -- particularly their naval strength -- in order to take the fight to them, perhaps even conquer them. That's why, for much of the Revolutionary War, the British ships tasked with kicking America's ass had to survive 12 rounds with the French navy before they could even think of crossing the Atlantic. France gleefully fought the British, eventually teaming up with Spain, declaring a war, attacking from all sides, and even setting up an invasion force.

So, when the Colonial army was fighting for dear freedom, history books tend to conveniently forget that they did so with French money, equipment, and backup forces, while France and its other allies were busy pummeling the empire from every other sid

I remember learning about how the Frogs and Spics did all the hard work and how fucking stupid you're militia fetish is.

George Washington explained it pretty well, "To place any dependence on Militia, is, assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestick life; unaccustomed to the din of Arms; totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill, which being followed by a want of confidence in themselves, when opposed to Troops regularly train'd, disciplined, and appointed, superior in knowledge and superior in Arms, makes them timid, and ready to fly from their own shadows."

Wrong. The correct answer is Samuel Colt and Jesus.

Yep. It's extremely rare for a rebellion to win without competent external powers playing a big part. You can't find many examples in history, I think Haiti is one of the few times it happened...

What? The French contribution is front and center in American history books. Only bucktoothed retards who don't actually pay attention in school minimize the French efforts.

Also, almost every other thing in my part of the country is named after Lafayette.

Who the fuck cares what George Washington thinks?

It's an independence of local level governance, not from the spirit of the empire

>Written by Canadian Harold Wood, just before leaving for the war:

"Why should we fight" he asked me,
"'Cause England is at war?
Why are they fighting now, Dad,
What are they fighting for?
What does it mean to you, Dad,
To babes, and mum, and me?
The Germans won't come here
From away across the sea.
So why should you go there, Dad,
And leave us here to cry?
Is it cause England owns us?
Is that the reason why?"
His eyes look widely at me,
I tightly held my son,
And this is how I answered,
His questions one by one.

"We fight when England calls us,
For in her sacred keep
The ashes of our fathers
Lie in her soil asleep.
And many times for England
They fought that she'd be free,
And they are part of England,
And so, my son, are we.
And some may pass her by, lad,
And some may scorn her hand,
But we must be forever
A part of that fair land.
For everything we have son,
That's good and fine and just
Was washed in British blood
And given to us on trust.

"And we must keep that trust, son,
Against the force of greed.
And fight beside old England
Whenever she's in need.
And once again she's calling
Across the Empire wide,
And all her Empire answers:
"You'll find us at your side"
Oh yes, we're owned by England,
But we own England, too,
As you are part of me son,
And I am part of you"

The French will never be happy regardless, just play along with their delusions.

Salty if the favored flavor of the Frenchman.

>American education

>still capitalizing America even in greentext
Good boy.

Except most amerifat think we joined late and barely contributed
When the reality is that the revolt couldnt have taken off if we hadnt funded it from the very beginning

i did history up til gcse and we didn't mention it i don't think, maybe quite briefly in a module about american history which spanned several hundred years. When we do talk about american history there's not really any bias though, it's just the facts i.e the declaration of independence was signed on this date by these people for these reason etc etc

Same as us with Russia (and everybody for that mater) in WWII.

>Except most amerifat think we joined late and barely contributed
Except that's wrong.

Now fuck off Pierre. Go eat a snail or paint some wood gold or whatever it is you Frenchies do.

I wasn't aware we had anything to do with the US until I was around 10.

I would give anything to have ten years of ignorance regarding out association.

>literally believing this to be true
America gets most of the credit nowadays because of the cold war. Not that it is deserved though.

>America gets most of the credit nowadays
Not nearly enough.

This is surely bait.

>4% net improvement

I'll take it

They literally teach us in school that the french naval blockade won us the war

>french
Point disregarded

It means retars and trolls have increased by 4%
No one right in their minds could unironically believe Britain was relevant in WW2, let alone the most relevant allied power

Yeah, you probably deserve less credit than they give you, considering Russia didn't even fight on the same front.

>retars and trolls

Scholars and gentlemen

Probably because you lot always overstate how important you were in the European theatre.

>overstate
The same way the British like the pretend the Pacific front didn't exist.

How's Singapore fairing these days?

>Pacific front.
Doesn't ring a bell.

>How's Singapore fairing these days?

It's doing well

The Nippo-American island contest was nothing more than a a big riot and wasnt a world war in any way

How the fuck would you know? As I recall your country took the last world war off.

>As I recall your country took the last world war off.

Decent beginner bants. Daddy taught you well.

I meant daddy as Britain in the autistic roleplaying sense not your literal daddy

FYI

>not your literal daddy
Bummer

Stop replying to me I'm bored of you now

Cocktease.

>60% white
shut up jose

OP here, Damn this escalated quickly!

No more than American schools teach the War of 1812.

>30 accidental death

Dumb bongs still driving on the left side when outside of their island

UK was totally relevant in WWII, just look at the north african front for example, and they recked what was left of the luftwaffe after the battle of France.