The jawdropper is that it only took them seven years to do it. It was touch-and-go during those years, and it can be argued that without help from the French, it might have taken them much longer. But they had something most people in British-ruled India and the Africans living under British rule didn't have. Those men had the will to be independent, and to hell with fellow American colonists who wanted to keep on living under the rule of a monarch.
Happy Independence Day, America!
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indians are awesome but they are not united. thats the problem. americans rock !!
ReplyDeleteThe main difference is the the Brits who went to America wanted to escape a England and settle. Whereas those who went off to
ReplyDeleteIndia went to administer a country that already existed, to trade or to enforce the administration and trade.