the 13 colonies got their independence in 1768.
when did the 13 colonies get their independence?
1768
by spring 1775, all royal officials had been expelled, and the continental congress hosted a convention of delegates for the 13 colonies. it raised an army to fight the british and named george washington its commander, made treaties, declared independence, and recommended that the colonies write constitutions and become states. the second continental congress assembled in may 1775 and began to coordinate armed resistance against britain. it established a government that recruited soldiers and printed its own money. general washington took command of the patriot soldiers in new england and forced the british to withdraw from boston. in 1776, the thirteen colonies declared their independence from britain. with the help of france and spain, they defeated the british in the american revolutionary war. in the treaty of paris (1783), britain officially recognized the independence of the united states of america.
thirteen colonies
bullet::::- "if louis xvi had had an atom of firmness" by andré maurois: as with hilaire belloc's essay above, the main story posits louis xvi as averting his 1793 death in the french revolution, but the point of divergence happens in the 1770s rather than 1791, and leads to a more optimistic outcome. in a frame story, a recently deceased historian is escorted by an angel to a great library in heaven, where he gets to read history books of possible worlds that did not come to be. his eye is caught by a book whose cover states that louis xvi had a 46-year reign as king of france, dying of a lung illness in 1820. in the main story, the young king, shortly after coming to power in the mid 1770s, makes necessary financial and constitutional reforms beforehand that prevent the necessity for the revolution, resulting in the survival of france as a constitutional monarchy into the twentieth century. louis refuses to sponsor the american revolution and later builds an alliance with great britain; the united states never exists, but the 13 colonies get the representation they desired from the british parliament, so the expanding america effectively controls britain. the 1790s and 1800s are relatively peaceful decades for europe, and all nations live happily ever after.
if it had happened otherwise