British Americans usually refers to Americans whose ancestral origin originates wholly or partly in the United Kingdom. It is primarily a demographic or historical research category for people who hav
John Trumbull's famous painting, Declaration of Independence. Most of the Founding Fathers had British ancestors.
Uncle Sam embracing John Bull, while Britannia and Columbia hold hands and sit together in the background (1898).
Founders of Harley-Davidson, from left: William A. Davidson, Walter Davidson Sr., Arthur Davidson and William S. Harley.
German Americans are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.
British Americans
…the origins of the colonial stock population descended from White Americans enumerated in the 1790 Census. The undercount of other colonial stocks like German Americans and Irish Americans would thus have contemporary policy consequences. When CPG was produced in 1909, the concept of independent Ireland did not even…
John Jacob Astor, in an oil painting by Gilbert Stuart, 1794, was the first of the Astor family dynasty and the first millionaire in the United States, making his fortune in the fur trade and New York City real estate.
Carl Schurz was the first German born US Senator (Missouri, 1868) and later US Secretary of the Interior.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, "father of the American military"
German population density in the United States, 1872