I guess in the end the British won the war, since their real enemy was, after all the French - not the U.S. Their adventures in the North American campaign were a disaster for their war effort though, and while the English were eventually victorious, the conflict against the U.S. navy who were, after all operating in their home waters was to cost them dearly both in manpower and fleet assets, as they were then forced to maintain a presence all around the globe instead of concentrating their forces in the Atlantic where they could more easily have beaten the French fleet and forced an quick treaty instead of beginning the Imperial decline which eventually led the English to the point where they couldn't even defeat a continental power like Germany 100 years later.

I guess, though it must rankle Canadians to hear people in the States talk as though the manifest destiny of the United States where self-evident to the whole world. I live in the states, and it bugs me. My friends outside the states want to just smack me whenever I go visit them. They tell me that since they can't smack the whole U.S. I'll just have to do :-) Our education here is so sadly neglected that it was only recently that I learned the role of Canada in the whole independence movement of the United States. From that perspective it must really bug Canadians when the U.S. says simultaneously that it defeated the English and that it is the natural inheritor of the empire. Yup, it bugs me too. Anyway thanks for the nice comment about the image. I appreciate it a bunch.