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Christopher Columbus Discovers America 1492. Columbus led his three ships the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3 1492.
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Many Spanish Conquistadors begin to arrive in the New World. Small Spanish settlements were built on modern day cities such as San Antonio Tuscan Los Angeles and San Fransisco
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The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America.
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A global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence as the United States of America.
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The Declaration announced that the Thirteen Colonies then at war with Great Britain would regard themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states no longer under British rule.
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On September 3 1783 the parties signed the Treaty of Paris in which Great Britain agreed to recognize the sovereignty of the United States and formally end the war.
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George Washington, known as the was an American soldier and statesman who served from 1789 to 1797 as the first President of the United States.
