When the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from Britain and became the United States of America, it was the first European colonial territory to break from its mother country. By doing so it brought about the end of the first British Empire and was the catalyst leading to several other major global events, some being the most dramatic and explosive in world history. Today the USA is the most powerful nation to have ever existed... but what if it didn't?

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