In honor of America’s 250th birthday, I’m re-running this story from 2022, though I suspect there are even more extra special festivities going on today at the United Club in London Heathrow. Quite the ironic venue, eh?
Stop by the United Club in London today for a celebration of the day that those treasonous colonists across the Atlantic declared independence from the Crown!
History is complicated. The British Empire could not sustain itself by magic and asking colonists to pay certain taxes and costs to enjoy their privileged status as British citizens was not as intolerable as some colonists would later contend. But a relationship that became strained in 1763 led to war in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence on July 2, 1776 (yes, the vote was on July 2nd, not July 4th).
As Thomas Jefferson put on November 29, 1775:
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on Live and Let's Fly.
