Presumably he was rather busy as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, a position to which he was appointed in June, 1775. The fighting was underway well before the Declaration of Independence was signed in July (or August, or November, depending on who you ask) of 1776. The battles of Lexington and Concord in April, 1775 are usually considered to mark the beginning of the war.
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Perhaps the biggest question in world history is why the balance of power shifted so dramatically in favor of Europe and the West instead of the East in the 1800s. One major reason is that China was so internally divided that development of any one province economically or technologically was a threat to the surrounding emperors. (C.)
Nationalist leader Jiang was fighting a civil war against communists led by Mao.
Operation Barbarossa was the Nazi German military invasion of the "USSR", since this was the famous surprise attack by Germany that broke the Nazi-Soviet Pact in World War II.
I'd say probably not. There's no room for any companies that are not owned by or allowed by the government. Mercantilists were interested mostly in exploiting peoples for natural resources. So no, it's not particularly fair to businesses or indigenous populations
