The Colonials fought a Revolutionary war against the English, and with the aid of countries such as France, Spain and the Netherlands, they won.
The US independence was formally acknowledged in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris.
England, also referred to as Great Britain.
The Confederate States of America.
The Confederacy wanted and believed it could achieve independence from the US. It almost happened.
Independence did not happen in one fell swoop. Everyone remembers 1776 as the year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It took a war from 1775 till 1783 to achieve independence.
The Colonials fought a Revolutionary war against the English, and with the aid of countries such as France, Spain and the Netherlands, they won.
They never did.
US Independence Day is on 4th July.
Gandhi began his activism for independence in India in the 1910s, and India gained independence from British rule in 1947. So, it took Gandhi and the Indian independence movement around three decades to achieve independence.
Burman or Myanmar achieved independence from British on 1948
Portugal.
By declaring your independence from your oppressors and fighting to achieve it.