Prior to 1789, the United States as a sovereign nation did not exist. From 1776 until 1789, there were 13 independent sovereign nations in place of the former colonies.
The United States existed from 1776. Its juridical character altered in 1783, but that is irrelevant to the OP.
ISTR that right after 9-11, Canadian warplanes were permitted to fly in and out of U.S. airspace and provide patrols here on an expanded basis, but that was under the aegis of NORAD, I presume.
We had a good bit of foreign assistance right after Katrina hit, too, some of which was military in nature (as fiddlesticks mentioned): International response to Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia
Duckster did not say that the U.S. did not exist; he stated that it was not a sovereign nation under the Articles of Confederation.
And this is more or less true. Sovereign power under the Articles of Confederation rested solely with the individual States.
During the war years (1776-1783), General Washington addressed his reports and requests for support to each of the various State governors, as well as the mostly ineffectual Confederation Congress. The United States in these years (and even after the Constitution was adopted) was universally referred to in the plural rather than the singular.
Indeed, the U.S. prior to adoption of the Constitution was more akin to today’s NATO or EU than a nation in it’s own right. For that matter, the Constitution would never have been passed (particularly by influential Virginia) had not the issue of competing State versus Federal sovereignty been left intentionally vague at the time of adoption. This argument would continue for the next century, ultimately being a leading cause of the Civil War.
(I am just finishing up this book.)
Canadian Army troops were also supplied to assist in the recapture of Kiska Island (which had been abandoned by the Japanese a little more than a week earlier).
Here’s a good starting point for military bases of both the US and UK: Wikipedia Category:Overseas military bases
:mad: What is the first rule about the Israeli base? :mad:
Hey, I just started that myself.
It would’ve been the Continental Congress until 1781; the Confederation Congress from then until 1789, when the Constitution was ratified and the U.S. Congress was elected.
As mentioned, the answer is ‘yes.’ The Germans maintain a base on Fort Bliss for ADA missile training. Neat German guard shack at the gate and everything.
We have British Army troops stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington.
I’ve seen them around here for years. They also have their own vehicles here.
I don’t know what units they’re with or how long an individual’s tour of duty is, but I’ve seen some of them and even talked to them.