You realy need to learn to spell republican before you start to use it interspersed with apostrophes. Or was it just a typo due to those sore fingers?

BTW are those fingers sore from poking them into histories that are not written by Brits. Maybe the ones that say America was sucessful in all it's wars? Don't want to go to much down that road but kettles, pans and the colour black seem to spring to mind.

Cheers

DtG