Yes but the English colonies here started over 100 years after the Spanish colonies so we were Johnny-Come-Lately types.
The 1588 battle defeating the Spanish Armada had a lot to do with English confidence in establishing colonies during the following generation just as the fall of Moslem Grenada in 1492 had giiven the Spanish confidence.
Yankess always have to be reminded that Jamestown, Virginia predates the colony at Plymouth,
This is true.
Some observers consider the Civil War to have been the Second War of Independence. It was also the Second English Revolution, fought by descendants of the Cavaliers and Roundheads.