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On 4 July 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, a treason confession from thirteen colonies with no army, no navy and no treasury. Two hundred and fifty years on, the doubters are still losing.
On 10 February 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War. France traded a continent for a sugar island, Britain collected an empire, and the bills came due within a generation.
On 14 January 1784, Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris and the United States became legally real. Britain's terms were so generous that the French foreign minister called it buying peace rather than making it. That generosity launched the world's next superpower.