Video: 'The Revolution: Declaring Independence' (July 4, 1776, at 26:00)

(Thursday, July 4, 1776; during the American Revolutionary War and the American Revolution) — The Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia today ratified the Declaration of Independence, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer under British rule.

Video: 'The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America July 4th 1776'