Please note that fact #20 asserts a false position The King of England in 1782 loaned the United States funds to help during the Revolutionary War. This is false because it was the King of France that did so. See 8 Stat. 614. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=008/llsl008.db&recNum=627 Also, this argument relies upon the 1933 House Joint Resolution 192. http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/HJR192.pdf A must read, Edwin Vieira's book, Pieces of Eight, to really understand HJR 192. http://www.edwinvieira.com/edwin196.htm James Turk reviews Edwin Vieira's 'Pieces of Eight' http://www.gata.org/node/7536