User:MrWeeble/Thirteen Colonies
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The Thirteen Colonies is a name given to those colonies of the Kingdom of Great Britain in North America that declared their independence as the United States of America on July 4, 1776.
It should be noted that the name "Thirteen colonies" is only applied in retrospect as the defining event of the Thirteen Colonies was their Declaration of Independence from the British Crown, at which point they ceased to be colonies. They refered to themselves at this time as the "United Colonies", as members of the Second Continental Congress.