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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.