AMERICAN STATE: July 2, 1776 & After

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Hi Jorge & List, I hope many find it encouraging, as I certainly do, that this SAMVA group welcomes fundamental re-evaluations of established understandings of the astrlogical signification of major historical events in the lives of nations. Except for the website of the successful financial astrologer and investment advisor, Ray Merriman, SAMVA is the only place where one finds the USA chart for July 2, not July 4, 1776. And so it still appears that only Merriman and Angelino have put their intellectual capital at risk in defending the event of July 2, 1776, not two days later, as cosmically determinative of the birth of the USA. More power to them, I say. As an historian I've given up debating astrologers on the question of JULY 2 vs. JULY 4 because the

defenders of JULY 4 really don't know what they are talking about. They all argue the history second-handedly, and they all end up wrong. I know by dint of years of well-nigh-obsessive research on the subject. My personal library on the question fills a very large/tall bookcase. And I've long recognized the fallacy of relying exclusively on empirical technique; mundane astrology requires first that we get the history of a given event right. However, as Jorge has recently and rightly acknowledged there still remain doubts about JULY 1776 altogether as signifying the month in which the cosmic moment of the birth of America's nation State arrived. For instance, Cosmologer's recent post on the USA Confederation, the event of FEBRUARY 2, 1781 @ Annapolis, Maryland, perfectly illustrates this point. Alas, I believe the matter can be rationally addressed by putting the SA/SAMVA techniques to work, in order to

substantiate the significance of the hypothesized events, given that the respective histories can take us only so far. Intensive investigation on these lines may not finally resolve the question, but I remain confident that it will bring the dialogue closer, asymtotically directed as it were, to the truth of the matter. So for now, here below, one more item "from the files" on the "why" of JULY 2, 1776 and the event of the birth of the USA: The latest popular history touching on the event of July 2, 1776 @ Philadelphia is David McCullough’s 1776 [New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005, 386 pp., here in see pp. 134-38] The following tthree quotations [see below] should remind the reader that the fate of the birth of the USA was largely in the hands of General George Washington and the army at his command. As fate finally dealt the hand, on that very July 2nd that Congress “declared” the American colonies to be united independent States, the largest armada that history had ever witnessed began to anchor in and near the harbor of New York City, spread further afar than the eye could see. Facing this armada, on Manhattan Island, was the Continental Army under the command of General Washington. The armada

was that of Great Britain’s Royal Navy, which had come to New York to take back America from the Continental Congress and the patriot parties throughout the 13 colonies. The Royal Navy stayed in New York City for the next 7-plus years, finally departing (the last ship up-anchored) on the afternoon of December 4, 1783 (I like 14:36 hrs, but the record is not this time-moment precise), this decampment coming just three months after the Peace Treaty of Versailles was signed between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the warring powers France, Spain and the USA, signed in the afternoon (14:50 hrs) of September 3, 1783. On December 4, 1783 the occupation was at long last lifted and America was completely free of

Great Britain’s occupying armed forces. So it befits the memory of that trying era that celebrated author David McCullough reports the reaction of Washington’s army when it first learned that the Continental Congress had declared independence: QUOTE: “The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army.” – General and Commander-in-Chief George Washington, July 2, 1776. "In Philadelphia, the same day as the British [armed forces] landing on Staten Island [New York City], July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress, in a momentous decision, voted to "dissolve the connection" with Great Britain. The news reached New York four days later, on July 6, and at once spontaneous celebrations broke out. "The whole choir of our

officers . . . went to a public house to testify our joy at the happy news of Independence. We spent the afternoon merrily," recorded Isaac Bangs." [Fn. #135: “the whole choir”: Isaac Bangs, July 6, 1776, in JOURNAL OF LIEUTENANT ISAAC BANGS, April 1 – July 29, 1776, Edward Bangs, ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: John Wilson & Son, 1890, p. 56] "A letter from John Hancock to [George] Washington, as well as the complete text of the [mis-dated July 4th] Declaration, followed only two days later:" UNQUOTE [bracketed] insertions are

my clarifications. JOHN