Happy Fourth of July !!

Happy Independence Day, everybody! Or, as they call it in England - Happy Ungrateful Rebellious Insurgents Day! . Today most patriotic Americans will commemorate our freedom by getting drunk, grilling dead animals, and watching baseball and fireworks on TV. It's a really cool holiday; and a pity we have only one. . Canada, OTOH, has two independence days. One is Canada Day, held on July 1st, just so they can get drunk a couple days before we do. And the Quebecois celebrate Francophone Independence Day on June 24th, although to fool their English-speaking countrymen, they call it St. John the Baptist Day (Saint-Jean Baptiste Day). . Mexico one-ups Canada by having three independence days. The main one is on September 16th, to celebrate their victory over Spain. But there is also Cinco de Mayo, which falls conveniently on the 5th of May, celebrating their victory over France. Last but not least is The Day of the Revolution, on November 20th, to celebrate their victory over Mexico. . But pity poor England, which ANAICT doesn't celebrate a single independence day. That's somewhat surprising, since over the years they've been overrun by the Beaker people, Druids, Jutes, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Catholics, Vikings, Normans, Braveheart, Anglicans, and Japanese tourists. Do you mean to tell me they never successfully threw off the oppressive yoke of any of those foreigners?