GreenKnight - As a Brit living in the US, I can't find fault in your statements that it is taught, my wife is an Elementary teacher. Equally, however, many of my US friends believe the US won the war of 1812, and that WW2 didn't start until late 1941. So exactly what is taught, I don't know. I do know that all the neighborhood kids hate me when they learn about the American Revolution though.