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Relations between the United Kingdom and the United States have ranged from military opposition to close allyship since 1776. The Thirteen Colonies seceded from the Kingdom of Great Britain and declared independence in 1776, fighting a successful revolutionary war. While Britain was fighting Napoleon, the two nations fought the stalemated War ...
United Kingdom. United States. The UK-US relations in World War II comprised an extensive and highly complex relationships, in terms of diplomacy, military action, financing, and supplies. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin D. Roosevelt formed close personal ties, that operated apart from their respective ...
946. ISBN. 978-0-19-506905-1. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America is a 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer that details the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of Great Britain (Albion) to the United States. The argument is that the culture of each of the groups persisted, to provide the basis for the ...
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan.Their strong bond epitomised UK–US relations in the late 20th century.. The Special Relationship is a term that is often used to describe the political, social, diplomatic, cultural, economic, legal, environmental, religious, military and historic relations between the United Kingdom and the United States or its ...
British diplomatic relations date back to the 13th century. [60] The United Kingdom has established diplomatic relations with all United Nations members, aside from Bhutan, in addition to 3 Non-UN member states: the Cook Islands, Holy See, and Kosovo. The following table lists the date from which diplomatic relations were established with ...
Diplomat. Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice, GCMG , GCVO , PC (27 February 1859 – 14 February 1918) was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918, as which he was responsible for the organisation of British efforts to end American neutrality during the First World War.
The United States at first only demanded vast reparations for "direct damages" caused by British-built commerce raiders, especially CSS Alabama. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts , the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee , also demanded that "indirect damages" be included, specifically the British blockade runners.
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.