[ WP ] England decidedly does n't like the way the United States of America is progressing and decides to regain control of the colonies by force .

Forty-eight minutes. 
 
 The war lasted forty-eight minutes. 
 
 The first shot was fired at 2.12pm GMT on the 15th of May. The bullet left the barrel and passed over the heads of the Dallas crowd. Well. Over most of the heads. 
 
 Another President dead. Another assassins' bullet. One more and Dallas would get to keep the trophy. It took the secret service almost ten minutes to move from identifying the source of the bullet high in the.epub storage section of an Amazon cloud facility to taking down the lone gunman. 
 
 His papers and clothing were impeccable. American. His stomach contents revealed an American lifestyle: Mountain Dew, Steak and Corn Syrup. It was the teeth that revealed the truth. 
 
 The British had killed the President. The US was at war. 
 
 It was 2.45pm. 
 
 Off the eastern seaboard, radar signatures broke up. What was thought to be regular shipping and air traffic scattered revealing the complete forces of the RAF and Royal Navy bearing down on Norfolk. 
 
 Seven ships, and almost twenty aircraft, confident and deadly. 
 
 Behind them, in the UK, almost fifty thousand men, armed, motivated, ready, stood waiting for the transports to the US. 
 
 At this point, cooler heads in Whitehall remembered that they had failed to request the use of America's logistical support and started block buying seats on transatlantic flights. One computer operator managed to build up more than 25,000 air-miles for himself alone with credit card payments. 
 
 2.55pm All across the eastern seaboard of the US panic had set in. Only a token force could be scrambled to face the oncoming onslaught. Perhaps only 2 % of capable forces managed to take to the skies. 
 
 America's future lay in the hands of that noble breed. The 2 %. The few. The happy few. 752 aircraft managed to fly up towards the RAF. A noble gesture perhaps, but it was the first sign that the US would not back down and roll over. 
 
 And then 3.00pm. 
 
 The end of the war. 
 
 It will forever be debated. Accusations of war crimes levied against the US for failure to conform to the rules of war. The US has long maintained that the rules were nothing more than guidelines. But one thing is certain. 
 
 On that day. 
 
 In that place. 
 
 Only one side stopped for a cup of tea and a scone.
