People of the UK...

How does the UK teach about your Wars against the USA? Like do they go in depth or gloss over it for the most part?

Then again, y'all probably have a lot more history to cover, as y'all go a lot further back in history than the USA.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

The UK has never been at war with the USA!

The American War of Independence was between colonialists from Britain and their ancestral country; and the USA could not have existed until they had won that.

GrinNude · 61-69, C

@ArishMell What about the War of 1812?

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@GrinNude Ah, sorry - yes: a war perhaps overshadowed by the War of Independence and the American Civil War.

So I've looked it up.

A complicated situation involving American expansionism on that continent, France (when Napoleon was still trying to extend the French Empire in Europe); and even Spain to a small extent.

With allies on both sides from the indigenous Americans caught in the middle of fighting between the descendants of the settlers from overseas, who had usurped their lands over the last previous century or so.

Then another war, but this time a "civil" one, in 1813 between the US and Spanish and British settlers, rather than nations.