Pomp and Parade, Bonfires and Illuminations
The American Revolution is the only revolution in history to accomplish what it set out to do.
Tagged: Independence Day
The legacies of two revolutions.
Though the American Declaration of Independence was published in 1776 and the Bastille was stormed 13 years later in 1789, on the scale of the grand sweep of history, the events are essentially concurrent. But there the similarity ends.