The principal theme of the book is the American Revolution.

We are now declaring ourselves as an independent country.

But there wasn't any real transfer of territory or anything like that over here.

And you could imagine, that's not a cheap thing when you're doing it across the Atlantic Ocean.

He was in Cyprus right after the Turkish invasion.

Not to be confused with his father, who goes by the same name who was a hero of the American Revolution.

Mr. Allen went to Britain after the war.

Every bellefleur woman's been doing it Since they started having them before the revolutionary war.

So you can imagine that the settlers there didn't like this idea.

The Third Amendment is called the Quartering amendment.

A brigade independent fighters.

And as we're going to see over the next several years the chaos only gets worse and worse.

Say you want to see the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

It was the first battle that George Washington won, in fact, and was pretty much of a turning point in the war of independence.

They were moving towards a naturalistic concept.

Coercive Act, they essentially did a blockade of Boston, so things started to get really really really tense in the early 1770s, than if you fast forward to 1775 you have essentially the first conflicts of the American Revolutionary War and we're going to do a whole series of videos on really the whole Revolutionary War, 1776 you have the Declaration of Independence, this is them right here drafting the Declaration of Independence and thats really just saying

Add in the increased vulnerability of very large numbers of people in the developing world, caused by civil wars, ethnic conflicts, kleptocratic governments, disease ... you name it, you know it.

Central Field's 2nd special division?

One of his favorite stories, for example, had to do with the Revolutionary War hero, Ethan Allen.

They had lost the Civil War.

At the end of the civil war, grant's union army

You know, was supposed to be.

When did America become independent of England?

So in 1803, the United States almost doubled in size.

Well, in fact, there are three somewhat counter intuitive findings that come out of all this.

Don't know if war will break out.

Will America recommit its forces to stop a major war?

And it just so happens to be the deepest in the world.

But as for the fight itself, I cannot use you.

And we must redouble our efforts to build a nation worthy of their sacrifice.

Happy Fourth of July!

Notice that there were never US or Soviet troops directly firing at each other.

Well, you tore up your trade policy, and totally reversed it.

He's with the army, father.

Did you say war ?

What war?

Wars?

War?

I'm here since I escaped from the Nazis when the war ended.

The people of America fought for their independence.

It's really at the core of capitalism.

My father was a tailor. He died in the war.

North Korea's Supreme Commander, Kim Jong Un is threatening thermo nuclear war against the United States.

Viceroy, you are going to spend the rest of the war in a cell.

I'm bleedin'!