Re: CHAT: "have a Canadian day"

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Robert Hailman wrote:
> > In the American War of Independence, the US was the
> > agressor force, and they conquered land held previously by the British.
>
> "Conquered"?  For them to have conquered land, they'd've had to be a
> nation beforehand.  The US conquered Spanish Florida, but they didn't
> conquer the East!
They were a nation as soon as the Declaration of Independance was
signed, and a nation needs land, so the conquered British land. If the
weren't conquering, or occupying, or any other synonym of conquer, what
precisely were they doing, pray tell?

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Robert