It is common knowledge that The United States of America began after winning its independence from Great Britain in the Revolutionary War. The odds were stacked high against the colonists, who somehow managed to pull off a stunning upset of the British. Although, how the war was actually won is up for speculation. Whether or not the Americans triumphed by winning the war themselves, or won by Britain fumbling away there chance to defeat the …
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…have been nothing to fend off the British with. Plus, the timing involved with the key battles at Saratoga, Yorktown, and Bunker Hill were important because the revolutionists used great strategy to defeat the British in each location. The reason that the United States became a nation was not because of the shortcomings of Great Britain; instead, the United States was born because the Americans rose up during the Revolutionary War and grasped their independence.