
On this day in history, August 10, 1776, Declaration of Independence reaches London
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The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It took five weeks past that point for its rejection of British authority to reach London.
Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
The document was officially adopted July 4, the date remembered as Independence Day in the United States.
The document arrived in London via sail, about 3,500 miles from Philadelphia across the Atlantic Ocean, a little more than five weeks later.
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