Ha! So true, autolycus. ;-) Cut from pretty much the same cloth, indeed.

"Rule, Brittania! Brittania rule the waves! Britons never, never, never shall be slaves!!!"

(sing repeatedly, lustily, with great pride and emotion...truly a consummation devoutly to be wished...ah, yes, I can see it now...great fleets of wooden walls or grimly towering ironclads bearing down upon the swarthy heathen, the Frenchman, the Spaniard, the African, the Asian, the foreigner of whatever motley variety...dispensing swift and terrible retribution from thundering cannon and spreading the greatness of British law and justice around the globe! Gad! I grow flushed and breathless at the very thought of it...)

;-) As a boy, growing up in Canada, the Redcoats were my heroes. No doubt about it. Such is national fervour.