Status Updates From Rich Relations: The America...

"Thus, the United States was a democracy that became a state; Britain was a state that was slowly democratized."

If you count land that was not yet part of the US but would become so later on, Alta California, New Mexico, and Florida were all settled by the Spanish by 1776. The oldest city in the US, St. Augustine, was founded by the Spanish. Santa Fe, also founded by the Spanish, is as old as Jamestown in Virginia.

The complex relationship between American GI's--famously lampooned as "over-paid, over-sexed, over-fed, and over here"--and their British hosts (for their part, "under-sexed, under-paid, under-fed, and under Eisenhower") during World War II.