10-19-1781

today 226 years ago a rag tag army of rebals gained victory after fighting for five bloody years the goverment who controled them. they rose up and declared themselves an independent state and fought tooth and nail for this independence. who was this govermant they fought against? the british. and what is this newly formed country? the United States of America.

this is he 226th anniversery of the surrender of gen. Cornwallis at Yorktown in Virginia.

maybe today would be a good day to read or constitution and our declaration of independce. both maybe found at the national archives web site.

Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Historical Documents (American Memory from the Library of Congress)

You had more than a little help from the French remember.
In early 1778, shortly after an American victory at Saratoga, France entered the war against Britain; Spain and the Netherlands joined as allies of France over the next two years. French involvement proved decisive, with a French naval victory in the Chesapeake leading to the surrender of a British army at Yorktown in 1781.

Do you think that if those 3 nations had kept out of the fight that the USA would ever have existed ?? I doubt it.

Funny that with all that help from France ,Holland and Spain that America still retains English as it's preffered language.

i have never denied the role the french played in our independence. i also will have to agree with the point that we more than likly would not have won the war if not for the french. also lets not forget that gen. lafeyette taught our troops drill and ceromony, wich is still used today in the military.

im just tying to get people to see that today is the day we won our freedom. and to also read the documents , because if you read the declaration of independce you will see that the things we origanally fought against are alive and well right here in our homeland.

these facts and the fact i am french and irish decent it burns my ass the way americans treat the french now.