IANAH, but I was going to say that Switzerland has been independent longer than we have. However, they were conquered by France (then under Napoleon Bonaparte) a few years after this country got started. Prior to the French occupation, they were independent for 2-3 centuries. I greatly admire their neutrality and independent streak, like our nation once practiced.longtooth wrote:+ infinity to all the above. I am not sure but I think our 230 as a free nation is the longest any nation has experienced the freedon we have. Any historians out there???
Sweden has existed independently since the early 16th century, and the UK since the 13th, though neither has ever had it as good as in the early years of our Jeffersonian republic here in America. That republic, and independence from foreign despots, is what I remember and celebrate every Fourth of July.