After the Battle of Yorktown, October, 1781.
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Benjamin Franklin was the first, suggesting that the thirteen colonies act as independent territories while maintaining allegiance to the British crown. However, there could have been those before him, but he was the first to put forward this radical idea in a sensible way.
The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire.
The Declaration of Independence declared the 13 British colonies on the east coast of America independent. The colonies were free as of July 4, 1776.
The American Revolutionary War between the 13 original U.S colonies and the British. After the United States gained independence in 1783 from Britain. That's how the United States (America) was set free from the British.
Yes. The Declaration states that the colonies, previously acknowledging their rule by Britain and its king, had cause to terminate that rule and become a free and separate nation. It was the colonies way of affirming their authority to rule themselves instead of being under the rule of England.