British History Re: Free the Netherlands!

[John D. Giorgis]

At 11:58 PM 5/28/01 -0000 Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>BTW, AFAIK, in the 1812 war between England and the USA,
>both of them were "democratic" - as far as democracy meant
>at that time.

Not being up on my British History, was there some sort of revolution that
occurred between 1776 and 1812 in the UK?    i.e. exactly when did the
monarchy of colonial Britain turn into the Republic of modern UK today?

JDG
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