F U California and CNN

[Kors ghost]

Young Americans Know Nothing About The 4th of July

[mr potatohead]

July 4, 1776 is Declaration Day, as my grandparents called it, the day we declared our independence from GB.

July 4, 1776 is not the day we won or secured our independence.

Then, after declaring our independence, we went to war to make it so.

History Channel

Independence Day, being understood as the day we became formally independent from British rule, was probably the day that The Treaty of Paris, signed by Franklin, Adams and Jay at the Hotel d’York in Paris, was finalized on September 3, 1783. A few months later it was ratified by the Continental Congress on Jan 14, 1784.

In it, on September 3, 1783, Great Britain finally gave formal recognition to its former colonies as a new and independent nation: the United States of America.

(modified from the History Channel text by mikey)

[denis]

John Cleese
@johncleese
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Tomorrow, Monday 5th, is Apron Strings Day in Britain,
when we celebrate that we finally cut ties with our clingy American cousins, who demanded military protection without being prepared to help pay for it

The United States then proclaimed itself the World's first democracy..



Dave Stuart
@22djstu
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13h
Replying to
@johncleese
My favourite part of the American mythology is the vitriol American politicians had v France in 2003 bc they didn’t join the Iraq War.

If France hadn’t distracted militarily British troops during their Tea Party era, arguably the USA wouldn’t be a country today.

[macky]

"If France hadn’t distracted militarily British troops during their Tea Party era, arguably the USA wouldn’t be a country today."

The way America's carrying on these days, you wouldn't think it's a country, now.  

Certainly not a unified one, anyway.