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His troops assented by pulling down and beheading a statue of King. George III, then melting it dwn&pito 42,068 lead bullets.
August 2, another copy of the Declaration of Independence - the one preserved in the National Archives - was finally signed by all but a few members, or all those present, of the Continent!! Congress.
By 1782, after the Redcoats’ surrender at Yorktown, American envoy Benjamin Franklin in Paris filed a report with familiar ring today. Franklin wrote that the British were “willing to concede almost anything to get home the 30,000 troops who were doing nothing in America at enormous expense. But there were endless complications and delays.”
But on November 30 that year, Franklin, John Jay, John Adams, and the King’s man signed a preliminary peace treaty in Paris.
Five days later, on December 5, 1782, King George III announced to Parliament that peace had been proclaimed with the American colonies, adding “I declare them free and independent states.”
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