![]() ![]() Its citizens wore an aura of confidence, having achieved so much. But additionally, it became one of the world’s busiest ports for international trade, and certainly one of its wealthiest. When the war was over, Boston maintained and improved its position as a major American city with 18,328 souls as of the 1790 census. ![]() That independent, can-do spirit became part of the culture as Boston headed into a new century. Americans, and especially Bostonians, felt empowered by their success in resisting the king and his minions and subsequently by their ability to stand on their own as a new nation. After Boston had driven the British occupation force out of the town and out of the harbor in 1776, many of its citizen-soldiers went on to fight in the other colonies with Washington’s often ragtag army until, at last, the underdog Americans brought the mighty army of the British Empire to its knees at Yorktown, Virginia, in October 1781. ![]()
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