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Declaration Found on Captured Privateer | Bangor News
A volunteer at Britain’s National Archives made a jaw-dropping discovery: an early copy of the Declaration of Independence, one of only eleven known to exist and the only one outside the U.S., found tucked in letters from an 18th-century Royal Navy captain. The document was seized from the American privateer ship Dalton—operating under John Hancock’s orders—and captured by the British on Christmas Eve 1776. It’s a powerful artifact, offering a visceral link to the moment a new nation was born, with the crew having risked everything for independence. The story also reveals the brutal fate of…
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