colonies

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“We need to remember that the 13 Colonies and the 13 states created the federal government,” he said on Fox News in 2024, in an interview about the border.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

Wall panels remind us of the Townshend Acts, the Tea Act and the Boston Massacre, all seminal events that led the Colonies to eventually break away from Britain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

By the late 1770s, the Revolution in what is known as the Middle Colonies had become a brutal civil war.

From Salon • Sep. 16, 2025

Colonies consist of hundreds of individuals linked in chains that can be up to several meters long.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2024

Most of the investors were in absentia, gentlemen from Philadelphia or the southern Colonies who corresponded regularly with Mr. Sharpe, but who never saw our Novanglian academy.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson