[capitan_refugio]

American sovereignty was predicated solely on the basis of natural law and our declaration of those rights. George could have up and left and never concluded a peace, and we would have still been a sovereign nation in the community of nations.

[lentulusgracchus]

George [III] could have up and left and never concluded a peace, and we would have still been a sovereign nation in the community of nations.

Only provisionally, as long as the most powerful empire and only thalassocracy on earth insisted on her claim, and continued to demand we acknowledge our sovereign in the person of George III.