Whatever Britain and Canada have to do with a successful revolution by Vermont in 1777 is a mystery.
Vermont was recognized as an independent state with self-appointed borders.
It did not join the Union under the procedures for a territory.
Vermont had a State constitution in 1777.
It joined the Union in 1791 as an independent state."
The facts remain as I stated -- no foreign country ever formally recognized Vermont as an independent country, or signed a treaty with Vermont or exchanged ambassadors.
So Vermont was even more of a fake country than the Confederacy.
woodpusher: "In addition, he found that Vermont was not recognized as an independent state by Congress either under the Articles of Confederation or under the Constitution, but that her independence was recognized by New Hampshire in 1777, by Massachusetts in 1781, and by New York in 1790."
So the facts remain as I stated -- no foreign country ever formally recognized Vermont as an independent country, or signed a treaty with Vermont or exchanged ambassadors.
Vermont was even more of a fake country than the Confederacy.
"Recognition" by other US states simply made admission possible, of Vermont as a US state, a Northern free-state to balance out Kentucky's admission as a slave-state.
woodpusher: "On April 17, 1782, a committee of Congress to which the matter had been submitted reported that the Congressional resolutions of the 20th and 21st of August had been fully complied with, and recommended that the territory of Vermont as defined in these resolutions be recognized and admitted to the Union, as a free and independent state."
And yet, that's not what happened in 1791, when the question was left, at best, ambiguous.
Note the fact that none of these quotes refer to a "Republic of Vermont", and neither the US nor any other government ever formally recognized Vermont as an independent country.
And just so we're clear on this point -- to my understanding, The Republic of Texas was indeed formally recognized as an independent country, with treaties and ambassadors exchanged, though I cannot cite details without looking them up.
My understanding is that, unlike Vermont or the Confederacy, Texas was not a fake country.
- "Apart from the United States, the Republic of Texas received diplomatic recognition from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and the Republic of Yucatán (which in 1841 declared independence from Mexico).
The United Kingdom later also extended recognition to Texas."
