The two sets of wars affected the English colonies very differently. The first phase brought them much closer to the “Motherland.” At perhaps no other time did the colonists feel themselves more “British” than during their struggle against the Catholic French and their native allies during the French and Indian Wars (1688–1763). The second phase pushed them far apart. At perhaps no other time did England’s (former) colonists feel less “British” than after the Revolution and during the War of 1812. In sum, white Christian nationalism became “British” in phase one and then “American” in phase
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