![]() ![]() Richard Henry Lee, a Virginia delegate acting on behalf of the Virginia Convention, proposed to Congress a resolution on independence on June 7, 1776. By the middle of 1776, public sentiment in numerous colonies appeared to have turned decisively in favor of independence from Great Britain. The Second Congress swiftly formed a Continental Army under the command of George Washington. ![]() ![]() In August of 1775, the King declared the colonies to be in open rebellion. King George III had not replied to the petition sent the prior October by the First Continental Congress, stating the colonists’ grievances. Weeks earlier, hostilities had broken out between the British and colonial militias at Lexington, Massachusetts, and Concord, Massachusetts. In May of 1775, the Second Continental Congress was seated in the Assembly Hall of the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. These historic events, central to the founding of the United States of America, deserve to be understood in detail. ![]() Yet it is not true, as often believed, that the document was actually signed on that celebrated date. The most well-known printed version of the United States' Declaration of Independence is emblazoned with the words "In Congress, July 4, 1776" at the top, and displays the signatures of John Hancock and other founding fathers at the bottom. ![]()
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