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 | | American General Henry Knox arrived in Boston with cannons he had moved with great difficulty from Fort Ticonderoga, New York. |
 | | When North Carolina and Virginia empowered their delegates to vote for American independence, Virginian Richard Henry Lee offered a resolution stating that the colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." A committee was appointed to draft a declaration of independence, and Thomas Jefferson was chosen to write it. |
 | | When Richard Henry Lee made a motion for independence (1776), he also proposed a formal plan of union among the states. |
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