Reading through the whole thread again has reminded me of G W Hunt's song of 1878, performed by G H ["The Great"] Macdermott on the British Music Halls:
We don't want to fight, by by jingo if we do,
We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too!
We've fought the Bear before, and while we're Britons true,
The Russians shall not have Constantinople!
The song gave rise to "jingo", meaning the brainless patriotism which was still in evidence in the Falklands War, and probably in the current unfortunate business in the Gulf.

Leslie Stuart, in his 1895 song "Soldiers of the Queen", has a dig at it:
When we're roused we buckle on our swords,
We've done with patriotic lingo.
We'll do deeds to follow on our words,
We'll show we're something more than "jingo" ...

It didn't catch on until the first Boer War in 1899, which suggests most people were quite satisfied with "jingo".

Steve