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About this the cartoonist wrote,"George Washington referred to Congressman John Trumbull as “my Brother Jonathan”, which became the generic term for New Englanders, and soon for all North Americans.

If any Jonathans are reading this – of course you are not as arrogant, big-headed and loud-mouthed as us Limeys – it’s just a cartoon joke!

This year (2012) is the two hundredth anniversary of the start of The American War (1812-14), which was basically a trade war. Britain was at war with France and America wanted to trade with the French, which Britain didn’t like. So Britain stopped and searched American ships for goods on the way to France and if they found British seamen on board, pressed them into the RN, neither of which America liked. So, obviously, the only solution was to go to war. The war was finally stopped when all the talking that should have happened before happened afterwards – as with all wars."