US Embassy In London Celebrates Independence Events In Battersea Park London UK

USPA NEWS - Londoners joined the US Embassy staff in celebrating their independence in Battersea Park in London United Kingdom. At event, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans USA gave a brilliant performance in front of the US Ambassador, the Deputy Mayor of Battersea and locals in London.

It was an exciting event when the Preservation Hall band entertain the locals at the Battersea park. The residence of Battersea had the opportunity to meet with the US Ambassador Mathew Barzun and his embassy staff who will be their future neighbour as the embassy planning to relocate from Mayfair to Nine Elms in 2017. The local school where among the audience to make the US independence celebration at the Battersea Park, London. Before the jazz Band performance, The US ambassador Mathew Barzun welcome the locals for joining them in celebrating their independence. There were other senior members from the Battersea local authority including the deputy mayor who attended the event.

On July 4, 1776, the thirteen colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which that led to the formation of the United States. Up till to day, each year on July 4th, Americans celebrate this historic event.
Conflict between the colonies and England was already a year old when the colonies convened a Continental Congress in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776. In a June 7 session in the Pennsylvania State House (later Independence Hall), Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presented a resolution with the famous words: "Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them....