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On July 2nd, two hundred forty-seven years ago, 15 months after hostilities commenced on Patriots Day, April 19th of 1775, the Second Continental Congress declared independence from Great Britain. Two days later, on July 4, 1776, Congress approved our Declaration of Independence, and 56 delegates began signing it — a process that wasn’t complete until August.

Thus officially commenced our nations Revolutionary War to secure American Liberty. The last major land battle of the war was five years later after the British surrender of Yorktown in 1781, and hostilities officially ceased after the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. But July 4 has marked our Independence Day since 1776.

On July 3rd, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, of the necessity of celebration our Declaration of Independence:

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