When did the British Empire finally give up the idea of retaking

After witnessing American military superiority

>>1098117
The Franco-American alliance was pretty much secure until the French Revolution and I doubt Britain wanted to fight France and America at the same again.

Americans considered themselves part of the "British Race" right up until the early 20th century, then the notion of multiculturalism made it very unpopular to be a "Anglo-American"

Cecil Rhodes always haboured the fantasy that America would re-join with Britain in some kind of union.

Britain is a tumultuous falling Rome, America is their thriving Eastern Empire

The British gave up on the idea during the revolutionary war.

Because of the French threat they had to either:

A. Give up the American colonies.
B. Give up their Caribbean colonies.

They realized their African's were more valuable than a bunch of white people who didn't want to pay taxes.

So yeah... They chose to defend their profitable colonies.

Worked out well for them until after WW2.

>>1098117
You did this knowing full well it'd end in eternal Anglo shitposting, didn't you.

>inb4 the Wikipedia screenshots

>>1098170
Yes and no. Andrew Jackson was an Anglo yet he hated British Anglos to death. The same applies to many other Americans. Just because you share ethnic origins with someone it doesn't mean you have to like him.

>>1098170
>thriving Eastern Empire
I don't like this.

>>1098191
It's not about whites and blacks. It's the fact that the Caribbean colonies were very fertile for growing cash crops. The reason so many American states started growing cotton was because the only place you could grow the much more profitable sugar was Louisiana and Florida (which weren't even a part of America during the revolution). Meanwhile Caribbean is full of sugar-friendly soil and climate. As for tobacco, North Carolina and Virginia grew it, but the yields were nothing like the Caribbean.

>>1098233

Their citizens in the Caribbean were primarily black.

>>1098251
Yes, but that's irrelevant. You're confusing cause with effect. Ever wondered why there were very few slaves in Canada but lots of them in the Caribbean? The black slaves were brought there precisely because of the favorable crop conditions.

>>1098209
Not culturally or geographically.

Britain's Constantinople is what I mean.

Erm, after 1776

...you chaps were just so glorious and free that we all hissed like vampires and sailed back to Britain, never to bother you again

That's it....

We gave up....

We have zero plans for ending your wretched rebellion once and for all

>>1098277
Thank you, Anglo, you are truly my greatest ally.

>>1098279
Yes, you only wanted the rights British subjects would have had back in Britain and were too stubborn to compromise on anything. The Aristocrats in Parliament were too stubborn to concede anything either.

If the Thirteen colonies were given representatives in Parliament, later dominions would had got them too. We would have remained united, we could have conquered the whole world.

But both sides were too stubborn, basically they were too fucking British.

>>1098206
Yeah because they threw him in a concentration camp and scarred his face with a saber when he was like 8.

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>>1098117
>give up

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>>1098170
>thriving

>>1098117
After the battle of New Orleans

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>>1100945
More like after your mother got fucked by a nigger, lmao.

>>1098277
Speak for yourself, bitch.

>>1098324
But that is wrong. The colonies paid taxes 7 times lower than in Britain.
The colonies had over £350,000 worth of defences installed and were asked to pay a mere £40,000 of it back.
The colonies essentially had free reign and were left to their own devices.

This fantasy that Americans have about these moustache twirling vampires oppressing the poor colonists and eating their babies until George Washington fired a proton torpedo down Big Ben's exhaust shaft is a stunning achievement in self delusion.

>>1098170
>Britain is a tumultuous falling Rome, America is their thriving Eastern Empire
Britain is Greece. America is Rome