From: "Andy"
someone wrote:
The Declaration of Independence was the 13 colonies declaring their
independence from England.
I think you'll find it was Britain, not England.
It was Great Britain... <grin>
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uk.html
(From that page:)
England has existed as a unified entity since the 10th century; the union
between England and Wales, begun in 1284 with the Statute of Rhuddlan,
was not formalized until 1536 with an Act of Union; in another Act of
Union in 1707, England and Scotland agreed to permanently join as
Great Britain; the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland was
implemented in 1801, with the adoption of the name the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland; the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 formalized a
partition of Ireland; six northern Irish counties remained part of the
United Kingdom as Northern Ireland and the current name of the country,
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was adopted in 1927
Actually, it was independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain (1707-1801)
Later, that became United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland
which lasted until 1921, or 1922, 0r 1927. (Depending on who you ask
and which "parts" are included...)
It has turned into
United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Northern_Ireland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Northern_Ireland
Or the USA history as a part of all this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War
Which takes us full circle back to the term "Great Britain"...
Happy 4th!!!
Rick Glazier
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