A little glimpse into how some British at the time thought about US independence, from the excellent YT series "Voices of the Past", that narrates various primary sources from world history.
I celebrated with a pan fried Delmonico steak, very rare. Beer and creamer potatoes ....yeah! Then blew stuff up!
We read the DOI aloud on 7/4 in our living room. After the enumerated causes and the actual separation paragraph, we thought our hearts would burst. It was done. It was so real, as if we were there among them. My Wife and I couldn't be prouder of or have more fondness for our Founding Fathers. Though mere men, they rose to the occasion, like giants.