HAPPY 4th People!
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Mickey Merrie
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On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States. Each year on the fourth of July, also known as Independence Day, Americans celebrate this historic event.
Conflict between the colonies and England was already a year old when the colonies convened a Continental Congress in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776. In a June 7 session in the Pennsylvania State House (later Independence Hall), Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presented a resolution with the famous words: "Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."
Conflict between the colonies and England was already a year old when the colonies convened a Continental Congress in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776. In a June 7 session in the Pennsylvania State House (later Independence Hall), Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presented a resolution with the famous words: "Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."
Mickey Merrie
Junior Member
Great to get an eye witness report from folks who were actually on the ground to witness these historic events! Weren't you a dung scraper back then?
(Paybacks are a female dog now, arent they?)The Revolutionary War (1775-83), also known as the American Revolution, arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown. Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the armed conflict, and by the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for their independence. France entered the American Revolution on the side of the colonists in 1778, turning what had essentially been a civil war into an international conflict. After French assistance helped the Continental Army force the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783
Music blasting and starting this day off right! Parade time folks
Great to get an eye witness report from folks who were actually on the ground to witness these historic events! Weren't you a dung scraper back then?
Hope you and yours have a great Indenpendence Day
Mickey Merrie
Junior Member
Anddddd. Done. Fire the grill and stick your hand in an iced down cooler. Because this is America and you can!
Sgt Fury
Sgt. Spellchecker
Stressless
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Happy 4th from the Yankee occupation force of our rambunctious southern cousins...
Happy 4th! Getting wild in Walbridge! Cold beer and snaps lol.
