[A Navy Vet]

Great resource. Thank you.

Nitpick: following the Revolutionary War, the newly-independent United States of America..."

There was no USA after winning the RevWar. They were independent Colonies or States as they called themselves.

[Jacquerie]

Preamble to the Articles of Confederation:

Whereas the Delegates of the United States of
America in Congress assembled did on the
fifteenth day of November in the Year of our
Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Seventyseven, . . .

[Jacquerie]

Articles of Confederation:

ARTICLE I. The stile of this confederacy shall be ‘‘The United States of America.’’