The United States became a nation in 1776 when the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, severing the ...

when the national flag was adopted by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. The Flag Resolution declared, “the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white,” and ...

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – On March 10, 1783, the last naval battle of the American Revolution was fought off Cape Canaveral, as Captains John Barry and John Green tried to deliver a shipload of ...