It would have to be recognised that those circumstances were a "one off" situation at a particular time in the development of your new nation.
The 21st century is so very different.

It is not simple, quite the opposite, being related to the absolute essentials of how homo sapiens deal with each other.
It continues to be interesting to see how those of the USA view Europe – arguably, the most complex place on the planet, certainly on a continental scale and giving due cognisance to the sub-continent of the middle east.
Within the link below is a view of a particular northern European nation written by an Indian national; it is just one view, no one has to accept it, but the existence of that particular website is some indication of the history that lines up in peoples' minds.
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Just recently on UK TV there has been a programme that explained the reverence that is held in the Islamic world for Baybars, almost as if he lived just a few years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baibars
Significantly, the man was a big influence in the cities of Syria that we hear of every day in current news.


On another hand, there is St George who is still commemorated in a wide range of countries, viz:
“St George is still venerated in a large number of places, by followers of particular occupations and sufferers from certain diseases. George is the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Germany and Greece; and of Moscow, Istanbul, Genoa and Venice (second to St Mark). He is patron of soldiers, cavalry and chivalry”
Abstract from St. George - England's Patron Saint
He is also the patron saint of England and his death on 23rd April is remembered each year.

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Dave