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The Declaration of Independence

Summary

In issuing the Declaration, examine the major motives of the delegates to secure foreign aid and alliances, considered essential to victory against the British. Track the actions of the patriots to publish the Declaration in Europe, and the long efforts of Silas Deane and Benjamin Franklin to forge an alliance with France, leading ultimately to official French recognition of the United States.

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