Ten years before the American Revolution, Charles Pratt, the chief justice of Common Pleas in Great Britain ... a radical event in political history, and it was. But it also exhibited a ...

Over the course of many months, the Founding Fathers would work on the Declaration of Independence until it was officially signed on July 4, 1776, by some of the most influential figures in US history ...

The Gazette is Britain’s oldest surviving newspaper, and the official journal of government. Established in 1665, with courtiers, government ministers and diplomats as its early journalists, it became ...

On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies ... absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally ...

As old men, they both insisted the signing — an act of treason against Great Britain ... "The second day of July 1776 will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America.

European countries, especially Great Britain, continued to colonize America throughout the 17th century and a good portion of the 18th century. Although the history ... July 2nd, 1776, the ...

The Englishman’s pamphlet helped spur the 13 colonies to declare independence from Britain ... a history-making pamphlet was published in the City of Brotherly Love on January 10, 1776.