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Reverted to version as of 21:34, 7 January 2009 (UTC) This map describes the situation in the year 1775. Florida was acquired by Britain in 1763 from Spain (who would re-acquire it in 1783). Therefore Florida (both west and east) was British at the time this map is set. 16:41, 19 December 2022: 506 × 662 (503 KB) PatriaDeTodos
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A map of the Thirteen Colonies (in red) and nearby colonial areas (1763–1775) just before the Revolutionary War. In response, the colonies formed bodies of elected representatives known as Provincial Congresses, and colonists began to boycott imported British merchandise. [62]
Date: 9 October 2008: Source: travail personnel (own work). Source : Image:Map Thirteen Colonies 1775-fr.svg by Urban under licence Public Domain, itself from Image:Map of territorial growth 1775.jpg by National Atlas of the United States under licence Public Domain.
The Continental Union Flag (often referred to as the first American flag, Cambridge Flag, and Grand Union Flag) was the flag of the United Colonies from 1775 to 1776, and the de facto flag of the United States until 1777, when the 13 star flag was adopted by the Continental Congress.
The United States of America was formed after thirteen British colonies in North America declared independence from the British Empire on July 4, 1776. In the Lee Resolution , passed by the Second Continental Congress two days prior, the colonies resolved that they were free and independent states.
The United Colonies of North-America [1] [2] was the official name as used by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia for the newly formed proto-state comprising the Thirteen Colonies in 1775 and 1776, before and as independence was declared.
The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France .