Almost a hundred Menorcan privateering ships hindered Spain and France from helping the American colonists in the revolt against the British, led by George Washington, who would be the first president of the United States and would give his name to the capital. The islanders, and specifically the Menorcans, played a prominent and perhaps not very well-known role in the early days of the USA, which celebrates on Saturday, July 4, 250 years of its declaration of independence, in 1776.The revolt of the inhabitants of the 13 colonies was not an isolated event. On the one hand, it stemmed from the certainly groundbreaking ideas of the Enlightenment philosophers, such as Voltaire and his peers. On the other hand, from a previous conflict, the Seven Years' War, between France and Spain on one side and Great Britain on the other, in which the colonists had supported the metropolis, but for the expenses of which – wars are always expensive – it wanted them to pay the bill. This led to the rupture of hostilities in 1775 and the unilateral declaration of independence the following year.

The Capitol in Washington is the seat of the United States Congress. Since 1931, the Petrero friar Junípero Serra (known as Miquel Josep Fuentes) is the only non-American figure to have a statue. He is part of a collection dedicated to the hundred Founding Fathers of the Nation. Along with politician Ronald Reagan, the Majorcan represents the state of California. He arrived in 1769, at the age of 56, after two decades evangelizing in Mexico in the service of King Charles III. He found himself in an almost unexplored territory, where he would eventually found nine missions. Some missions were the embryonic development of cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Sacramento.