Bitter, yes; but not so bitter as to allow that to interrupt a lucrative and mutually beneficial trading relationship. The French meanwhile, who'd assisted the fledgling nation in its bid for independence, were pretty much frozen out of trade with America. I think the bitterness dissipated remarkably quickly between Britain and America, considerably before 1815; though things remained tense certainly.

For real bitterness you need to look at Anglo-French relations during that period and the preceding 130 years.

Oh, sure use facts to support your ideas. Completely unfair.

But to be fair we turned out back on the frogs because, well... they're french. they really aren't good for much other than churning out some of the world's best football players.

They're naturals at soccer because their hands are busy elsewhere from an early age. :p

Doing what...waving white flags? :)

Producing duck a l'orange!

Oh this is hard. This really hard. I'm torn you see. On the one hand my Euro-self wants to leap to the defence of my French compatriots, but my British self is genetically predisposed towards taking the piss out of them.

By "football players" do you mean "football players" or do you mean "soccer players?" :D

And the Hundred Years' War, if bitterness may be measured by casualties.

Really? I know very little about the Hundred Years' War, but I would have thought the body count of the 'Second Hundred Years' War' (1689-1815) would have been much higher.

I said football, not Throwball.

Real footy poofs have way better guns than soccer poofs though.