It needed to motivate foreign allies to join the fight.
It had just defied the most powerful nation on Earth. In other words, “to declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” Congress had to prove the legitimacy of its cause. Its goals were to rally the troops, win foreign allies, and to announce the creation of a new country. The introductory sentence states the Declaration’s main purpose, to explain the colonists’ right to revolution. The Declaration of Independence was designed for multiple audiences: the King, the colonists, and the world.
Courtesy of Lafayette College Art Collection Easton, Pennsylvania
Parts of the statue were reportedly melted down and used for bullets. Enlarge Pulling down the Statue of King George IIIĪfter a public reading of the Declaration of Independence at Bowling Green, on July 9, 1776, New Yorkers pulled down the statue of King George III.
