You proved yourself more of a bother to govern than you were worth. Which is why you were allowed to remain a country after the war of 1812.
Of course proud marines like you remember a little selectively. You just try to forget those painful facts..put them in a box along with memories of being drunk under the table by a bunch of 70 year old women. (How much of that gig in an RV park do you remember..and admit to?)
Cheers,
Ben