and as the continued details of grey cliff continue to be sorted and analyzed , obama decided to focus his speech on the authorities conclusions that have pointed towards american unity rather than american divineness , as he stated , over two hundred years ago the people of the american colonies banded together to fight tyranny and oppression , and though greatly outnumbered , vastly undertrained , and highly outgunned , these men and women , a rag tag assortment of farmers , laborers , and aristocrats alike , united in mind and spirit to achieve a revolution of both place and ideas .