Please do accept my apologies I did not make myself clear (dipping in from work and all that).
Without the drain of money and resources in trying to keep hold of the 13 colonies, Britain was able to become an economic and idustrial superpower rivalled by none, dominating everything from the trade lanes to innovation throughout the 19th century and even into the 20th, coupled with that we can also tell a good tale .
Again accept my apologies for not being clearer.