How Did the UK So Easily Forgive and Forget About the American Revolution and Become Such Great Allies?
Don’;t forget there was a second war–the War of 1812. And actually Britain and the USA remained rivals for a long time. The rise of Germany as a European power and its attempt to become a colonial power in the late 19th century and early 20th century was an important part of the story. It was then, for example, that the ENglish poet Kipling called upon the USA to “take up the White Man’s Burden” and become a colonial power itself to counterbalance Germany–which the USA did in the Pacific with the Philipines. Then World War I, in which the USA initially tried to remain neutral, but eventually came in to fight with the UK against Germany, was crucial. Nonetheless, the whole time there was certain British-American sympathies. Many Englishmen actually were sympoathetic to the American cause during the Revolutionary War. Many Americans sided with Britain against Napoleonic France. There were always a sympathy created by sharing the same language and by the USA’s historical origins as Engl
