The largest city in the colonies at the end of the colonial period was Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia is a city in the state of Pennsylvania. With approximately 1.6 million inhabitants, it is the sixth largest city in the United States. The city is located on the Delaware River in the center of the Delaware Valley metropolitan area.
Philadelphia is one of the most important cities in the history of the United States. After New York and before Washington, it was the national capital from 1790 to 1800 and at that time the largest city in the USA, and after London it was the second largest English-speaking city in the world. The first and sometimes also the second Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was promulgated and the Constitution was passed.
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, patriot and republican. He contributed to the Italian unification and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy.
