A rare Declaration of Independence captured from an American Privateer by a Royal Navy warship on Christmas Eve 1776 has been discovered in a British archive, and is now one of only 11 of its type known to survive.
A volunteer at Britain’s National Archives in Kew Gardens, London, discovered a previously unknown copy of the Declaration of Independence while cataloguing long-sealed bundles of documents. The Brit was working on an America-250 project to sort and catalogue large volumes of documents relating to British naval captains and admirals who served around 1776.
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