Quote: Harridan @ February 3 2013, 6:34 PM GMTHe's talking about the American Revolution. He's obviously that brand of American who assumes that the rest of the world define themselves by their interactions with the US, and that we Brits are still mourning the loss of a colony 200 years ago.
It also tends to be the people with the least to be proud of that feel the need to reference battles their country had against someone else's years ago when arguing with them, even when it's completely irrelevant to the debate at hand.