This was after the Brits wouldn't leave after it was clear they weren't welcome. Britain is like a woman that strikes it rich and before middle age winds up a bitter senile old bat in a nursing home asking her daughter to care for her. (how many World Wars do we have to prove that one? Or Thatcher meeting GHWB on the golf course to ask assistance with Gulf War I a war that lasted what 100 hours?)
Speaking of learning from history......learn this - we left Britain because of your tyranny; high taxes, no religious freedom, and that the state [not the church] should care for the vagrant (your Q. Eliz I being the first to implement that policy). And we burnt redcoat ass not once, but twice.
So yes, we speak English; the language we brought with us.
But remember this - your ability to not speak German......was twice preserved by us.
Put that in your straw and suck it.
I’m sure it’s technically possible to sound more like a pompous a$$hat than that, but it will take some doing.