The Thirteen Colonies is the name that has been historically the colonial possessions of Great Britain on the Atlantic coast of North America between Nova Scotia and Florida, and that in the late eighteenth century were united under an independent government to create current the United States. The major representatives of the American Revolution (starting with George Washington) were almost equal with the ruling class in Britain with the sole exclusion that the ruling class in Britain, by levies and command of export/import permits, liked to exploit the colonies, encompassing the ruling class of the ...