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Between April and July 1776, a "complex political war" [22]: 59 was waged to bring this about. [25]: 671 [26] In January 1776, Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense, which described the uphill battle against the British for independence as a challenging but achievable and necessary objective, was published in Philadelphia. [27]
The Augusta Declaration, or the Memorial of Augusta County Committee, May 10, 1776, was a statement presented to the Fifth Virginia Convention in Williamsburg, Virginia on May 10, 1776. The Declaration announced the necessity of the Thirteen Colonies to form a permanent and independent union of states and national government separate from Great ...
"The Resolution for Independence agreed to July 2, 1776" in the handwriting of Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress. Thomson's marks at the bottom right indicate the 12 colonies that voted for independence, while the Province of New York abstained. Richard Henry Lee proposed the resolution on June 7, 1776.
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 discovery confirmed speculation by historians that Jefferson must have written more than one draft of the text. [2] Many of the words from the Composition Draft were ultimately deleted by Congress from the final text of the Declaration. George Mason was a Virginian politician and wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights in May–June 1776 ...
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 ...
During his entire adult life Franklin saved his correspondence, documents and other writings, which today include some 30,000 extant items. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin is a collaborative effort by a team of scholars at Yale University, American Philosophical Society and others who have searched, collected, edited, and published the numerous letters from and to Benjamin Franklin, and other ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A transcript of the Republican response to the State of the Union address, as delivered by Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., on March 7, 2024: Good evening, America.