Happy Fourth of July to Americans everywhere! If you happen to be in Europe, you might be wondering where and how you can celebrate. Today, the United States celebrates its Independence Day. Often just called by its date, the Fourth of July is a federal holiday across the US that commemorates the day in 1776 that the founding fathers ratified the Declaration of Independence from the UK, then ruled by King George III.
In the US, the Fourth of July will be spent outside, eating copiously, drinking weak beer, watching fireworks explode and...
shooting guns? We’re not really sure, this is a European publication. It’s hard to say exactly how many Americans are living in Europe today as numbers have to be estimated as expats aren’t always registered as such in foreign countries. However, from the Department of Defence's Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP), we can say that there were at least 1,322,113 living in Europe in 2018 that were eligible to vote.
As that’s a low estimate, it seems fair enough to look at what ways the millions of Americans living on European soil might want to celebrate their Independence Day on the continent. It seems logical to start off with the nation the US got its independence from. While the country was forged on animosity for the once-great empire, relations have tempered and the US and UK now have a closely tied .
One of the best ways to celebrate the Fourth of July is by going to the Benjamin Franklin House in London. The former home of.
