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1776 (released in the United Kingdom as 1776: America and Britain at War) [1] is a book written by David McCullough, published by Simon & Schuster on May 24, 2005. The work is a companion to McCullough's earlier biography of John Adams, and focuses on the events surrounding the start of the American Revolutionary War.
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The 248-year-old letter was written in the same month as the Declaration of Independence was adopted. It’s going up for auction. 1776 letter by Junipero Serra outlined his plan for California ...
The cover sheet to the French translation of the letter drafted by the First Continental Congress in 1774. The Letters to the Inhabitants of Canada were three letters written by the First and Second Continental Congresses in 1774, 1775, and 1776 to communicate directly with the population of the Province of Quebec, formerly the French province of Canada, which had no representative system at ...
[4]: 333–334 [21] Lord Hillsborough, Secretary of State for the Colonies, might have suspected Benjamin Franklin of authoring the letters, as Franklin related to his son in a letter: "My Lord H. mentioned the Farmer's letters to me, said he had read them, that they were well written, and he believed he could guess who was the author, looking ...
Jefferson's most immediate sources were two documents written in June 1776: his own draft of the preamble of the Constitution of Virginia, and George Mason's draft of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Ideas and phrases from both of these documents appear in the Declaration of Independence. [74] [22]: 125–126 Mason's opening was: Section 1.
A rare letter written entirely by George Washington himself back in 1778 was given a presidential price tag on Monday's episode of "Antiques Roadshow." And the auction estimate is... "$30,000 to ...