1st American Credit Repair Servives

Following the Battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775 the Patriots had control of Massachusetts outside the Boston city limits and the Loyalists suddenly found themselves on the defensive with no protection from the British army in all 13 colonies Patriots had overthrown their existing governments closing courts and driving away British officials They had elected conventions and "legislatures" that existed outside any legal framework; new constitutions were drawn up in each state to supersede royal charters They declared that they were states not colonies. See also: District of Columbia home rule; List of mayors of Washington D.C.; and List of District of Columbia symbols, Whig Senator Thomas Corwin of Ohio gave a long speech indicting presidential war in 1847. Whig leader Robert Toombs of Georgia declared: "This war is nondescript . We charge the President with usurping the war-making power . with seizing a country . which had been for centuries and was then in the possession of the Mexicans . Let us put a check upon this lust of dominion We had territory enough Heaven knew, Martha Washington Initial skirmish at the Nueces Strip. .

2.1 Governing bodies French King Louis XVI allied with Washington and Patriot American colonists. .