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The United States Declaration of Independence.
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Friday, 7/3, 02:39 PM

A Rare 1776 Copy of the Declaration Turns Up in Britain's Archives

  • Days before the Fourth of July, a rare early printing of the Declaration of Independence has surfaced in an unlikely place: Britain's National Archives.
  • The 1776 copy was tucked among papers seized from a captured American ship — a small artifact of the Revolution that made its way to the very country the colonies were declaring independence from.

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