Gordon Forgey

We just celebrated America’s birthday.

Actually, it was a theoretical birth only. Although the American colonies declared their independence from England on July 4, 1776, it took years to achieve that independence and years more to form the new country.

Prior to 1776, tensions and violence between the colonists and England were already decades old, and armed conflict had already started.

The colonists realized that trying to simply win concessions from the British by force would not be successful. The violence had taken too great a toll.

Their only recourse was to fight for total independence....