The previous chapter mentions the beginning of the famous Revolutionary War, when the British government tried to arrest two American leaders in Lexington, near Boston, in 1775, and the British fired the first shots. But the first battle between the two sides actually broke out in Concord.
Since then, the War of Independence of the Lighthouse Nation has officially begun! For more than a year, the people of the colonies found themselves extremely reluctant to sever ties with Britain. It was not until mid-1776 that the rebellious states met and jointly issued the "Declaration of Independence". George Washington was not elected commander-in-chief because of his innate protagonist aura. The truth was that he had in his hands an army that had been trained in the war against France, unmatched by other stragglers. Therefore, people elected him as commander-in-chief.
George Washington (22 February 1732 – 14 December 1799) was an American politician, military strategist, revolutionary, and first president.
You also know that the lighthouse states that were backward in the War of Independence finally defeated their ruler, the British Empire. Then this article will give you a brief introduction to the process of Britain's defeat in the War of Independence.
In 1777, the British general Bergoin tried to cross Canada to attack New York, but was attacked while passing through farimans Farm, and even more tragically, he was defeated again in Saratoga and finally had to kneel (surrender) to the great Comrade Washington.
The British Empire was blessed with unparalleled blessings and misfortunes. Also in 1777, France and Spain colluded to declare war on Britain, which greatly hampered British maritime communications.
A few years later, in 1781, the second British army led by General Conjures suffered another crushing defeat on the York Peninsula in Virginia, and also knelt down (surrendered) to the great comrade Washington.
Fast forward to 1783, when Britain and the United States signed a peace agreement in Paris. The 13 colonies from Maine to Georgia became an independent sovereign state, and the Lighthouse Nation (United States of America) was born!
It's just that from the british failure case, it is a bit of an understatement. But in reality, the war caused nearly 20,000 American casualties and nearly 50,000 British casualties. It can be said that the independence of the lighthouse country was indeed exchanged for blood and sweat.
In addition, the flag of the lighthouse state that we are seeing now contains 50 stars, but in the newly established lighthouse state, the flag they officially used in the first article contained only 13 stars, because this means that the first sovereign state was composed of 13 colonies.
George Washington, as the first president of the United States after formal independence, was successfully re-elected as the second president of the lighthouse. Although he was one of the founders of the country, some of his policies were dissatisfied by some politically dissidents during his second term. Therefore, at the end of his second term, he refused to be re-elected, thus establishing the practice that the President of the United States could not be re-elected for more than two consecutive terms. 140 years later, the practice was written into the Twenty-first Amendment in 1951. In 1799, the righteous democratic hero, the founding father of the superpower, who lived in seclusion at Fernon Hill, died of a throat infection.
The American War, from the perspective of Britain and the United States, was a war in which the lighthouse countries overthrew colonial rule and achieved national independence. But looking at the world, this war can be said to have had a profound impact on the pattern of the world for hundreds of years to come!