This is historically wrong. Britain maintained in force the navigation acts (until 1849), cutting the US off from trade to its traditional partners - Britain and its colonies. /1
https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/1317588014378397697
Things got worse for the US a bit later when the UK cut of trade with France as part of the Napoleonic war, which the US challenged as illegal. Ultimately there was the war of 1812 between the US and the UK /2
In the course of which Fort McHenry was attacked by the British Navy - the events described in the US national anthem. /3
And British Forces burned down the White House. /4
None of this reduces the ties that exist now and the beneficial trade that developed. But this didn’t happen on the eve after the war of independence with George III smiling, turning around and saying: let’s become two freely trading nations.
Some literature: McNabb, Post-Revolutionary Commerce and Trade (in: A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry), Vol. I
Online see e.g. this encyclopedia.com/history/news-w…
On the Navigation acts there’s “The Navigation Acts and the American Revolution”
On the War of 1812 there’s “1812: The War that Forged a Nation”.
I apologise for making 4/9 of this thread a bibliography. Clearly I don’t know how twitter works.
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