By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.
The Siege of Charleston witnessed the greatest military defeat of the colonists during the Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The siege occurred began March 29th and ended on May 12, 1780. This siege was a part of the British southern strategy after being forced to withdraw from Philadelphia. The British took more than 5,500 prisoners and large amounts of ammunition, ships, boats as well as rum, rice, indigo.
Hammurabi’s code is an example of a legal code, and is in fact the first of its kind!
The conflict between environmental groups and concerned citizens on the one hand and the promoters of fossil fuel unbridled use on the other which is not resolved and having national governments that just are spokesmen for the big multinational oil corporations and don't listen to their citizens is part of the problem. Also, major cities are implementing green policies in a big way which is bringing them into contradiction with federal governments which are dragging their feet on measures to protect the environment and cut greenhouse gases.
