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".
