00:00America. The new world. Our nation began not as an idea invented in the minds of men, but as a land discovered.
00:17When Christopher Columbus looked west across the endless ocean, he sailed for glory, for gain, and for God.
00:32Three ships traveled into the unknown, daring to go where no man had gone before.
00:41What they discovered changed the course of history.
00:47They carved homes out of the wilderness. By the sweat of their brow, they built a new world, rooted in the European civilization they left, but infused with the spark of liberty.
01:07In time, that spark grew. Galloping through the midnight darkness, Paul Revere warned the colonists that the hour had come to choose.
01:19Freedom or tyranny. Liberty or death.
01:29With the shot heard round the world, a ragged band of patriots challenged the mightiest empire on earth. Starving, outnumbered, and outgunned, the Americans had little reason for hope.
01:49But General Washington kept the flame alive, leading his soldiers through the frozen misery of Valley Forge, against all odds.
01:59With the aid of our allies like France's Marquis de Lafayette, Spain's Bernardo de Galvez, and Poland's Tadeusz Kosciuszko, America won one of the greatest military victories the world had ever seen.
02:14By the hand of Providence and the strength of determined men and women, the United States of America was born.
02:27And with her, words that echo throughout eternity.
02:40We hold these truths to be self-evident.
02:46That all men are created equal.
02:53That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
03:01Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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