Welcome To Week in History
The United States has been around for 2 centuries and 4 decades (245) but when did we become this beautiful nation? The story starts in the revolutionary war, we are the Americans fighting the British that has been oppressing us since we were assimilated into Britain. There were many reasons for the war, the ridiculous taxes that Britain imposed on Americans, rough ties with Britain, and the tyrant monarch that ruled the mother nation. Skip to the end of the Revolutionary war, the Battle Of Yorktown where Marquis de Lafayette, an allied french general is leading an army of around five-thousand (5,000) men, and George Washington with a troop of two-thousand and five hundred (2,500) soldiers to defeat General Lord Cornwallis stationed at Yorktown with around eight-thousand soldiers. This battle won in America’s favor, and this was also considered the ending battle of the Revolutionary War as peace treaties and negotiations were being signed. On October 19, 1781, the action of Yorktown was won for the new nation known as the United States, after this deciding battle the Treaty of Paris was signed which officially recognized the American colonies as an independent nation.
“Honestly, this battle made me think that the British won the war.” Jonathan Duque (11) said.
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