but they were the ones where colonists eventually pushed back against British rule and designed their own version of ...

When the Continental Congress chose this Latin motto for the Great Seal of the United States in 1782, it did so to assert the fact that thirteen British colonies in North America were now an ...

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 ...

Loyalist families were driven from their homes and sent into exile from the United States during the ... conquered and was now British, the Thirteen Colonies were going through their own tortured ...