'Vanishingly rare' copy of US Declaration of Independence discovered in the UK
- Published on 04/07/2026 - 9:21 GMT+2 A rare copy of the American Declaration of Independence has been discovered at the UK's National Archives ahead of the 250th anniversary of its signing.
- The document, which was seized by the Royal Navy after the capture of the privateer ship Dalton on Christmas Eve in 1776, was found during a cataloguing project looking at the navy's captains’ papers from the American Revolutionary War.
- Graham Moore, the Revolution 250 curator at the National Archives, said the "exceptional" item was "one of the rarest forms of the Declaration we know about".
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- Published on 04/07/2026 - 9:21 GMT+2 A rare copy of the American Declaration of Independence has been discovered at the UK's National Archives ahead of the 250th anniversary of its signing.
- The document, which was seized by the Royal Navy after the capture of the privateer ship Dalton on Christmas Eve in 1776, was found during a cataloguing project looking at the navy's captains’ papers from the American Revolutionary War.
- Graham Moore, the Revolution 250 curator at the National Archives, said the "exceptional" item was "one of the rarest forms of the Declaration we know about".
Sources: Euronews