Split, my old china: have you started on the Christmas Tempranillo early this year?
Brits have at various times led the charge in: engineering, science, technology, computing, aviation, literature, the arts, philosophy, democracy, military. Several times, the Brits have sorted out the Europeans (Spanish Armada, Trafalgar, Battle of Britain). Brits have also excelled in union militancy, football hooliganism, drunken and raucous public behaviour and exploitative colonialism and treating foreign chappies as lesser beings.
I can think of no other country where the achievement/per square mile index is so high. 🙂