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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 13 May 1846, the United States declared war on Mexico over Texas, borders, and ambition. Less than two years later the treaty ink was dry, California was American, and the argument that would tear the Union apart had new fuel.
On 6 April 1917, the US declared war on Germany. Wilson had been re-elected five months earlier on a promise of neutrality. He won. Then he changed his mind. The 20th century was shaped in that gap.
On 28 February 2026, Israel and the United States launched strikes across Iran. Whether this marks the beginning of the end for the Islamic Republic — or another crisis it will survive — nobody yet knows.
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.