Key Battles of the Revolutionary War, Part 9: Sidetrack Episode -- the Declaration of Independence - a podcast by Scott Rank, PhD

In the background of the opening battles of the Revolutionary War, an assembly of colonial statesmen issued a document announcing their formal separation from the British Empire. How did this document come about, what did the British make of it, and how revolutionary were these ideas to an eighteenth century audience?

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