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00:00How did a group of farmers and merchants defeat the strongest army on earth?
00:06Here's how the American Revolution shook the world.
00:10Ever wondered how 13 small colonies took down the world's biggest empire?
00:17It all started with taxes.
00:20Britain was broke after the Seven Years' War,
00:23so they taxed the colonies, tea, stamps, paper, you name it.
00:30But the Americans weren't having it.
00:33No taxation without representation became the war cry.
00:38In 1773, patriots dumped tea into Boston Harbor, the Boston Tea Party.
00:46Britain struck back hard.
00:48Battles broke out.
00:50Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill.
00:54Then in 1776, the colonies dropped the bombshell.
00:58The Declaration of Independence.
01:02Led by George Washington, the revolution raged for eight years.
01:08And in 1783, Britain surrendered.
01:12The United States of America was born.
01:15Not by luck, but by rebellion, strategy, and an unshakable desire for freedom.
01:22Rest in 1862, the state ofrikash.
01:25The United States of America was born.
01:27Thector George Washington, the dead manie returned.
01:30The United States of America was born.
01:31ever in 18ário-1942, everything was born.
01:35The home.
01:36The country was born, the ocean of degrade the flame.
01:38Due to this country, he possessed the starry, it was born.
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