The War with the Americans is memorable as being the only war in which
the English were ever defeated, and it was unfair because the
Americans had *the Allies* on their side. In some ways the war was
really a draw, since England remained top nation and had the Allies
afterwards, while the Americans, in memory of George III's madness,
still refuse to drink tea and go on pouring anything the English send
them to drink into Boston Harbour.

	-- W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman, "1066 and All That"