Great educators of Europe, the results of the struggle for independence?

The following figures were considered the great enlighteners of Europe:
John Locke;
Charles Louis Second Baron de Montesquieu;
Voltaire;
Jean-Jacques Rousseau;
Adam Smith;

The results that brought the results of the struggle for independence:
The War of Independence was precisely the revolution that not only overthrew British colonial rule, and the same revolution that led to the creation of an entirely new independent state, which was largely based on republican principles. Even at that time, victorious American democracy laid the foundations for the successful development of the United States, influenced the Great French Revolution and the liberation movement in Latin America.