Those who believe that the United States arose out of nowhere, that the Thirteen Colonies simply took, united and defeated Britain, easily winning their own freedom, and then immediately began to build the state of the “American Dream” are very mistaken. The birth of the United States and the process of state formation was painful and difficult. A new article by Samara historian Sergei Makhov is about this. * * *A short series on the USA is published on ResFed ( The final part remains, in my opinion the most interesting. The description covers the period from 1783 to 1811, and serves as a kind of prelude to the “Zero War”. Everything is freely available, so anyone can read it. Sergey Makhov.