Video: 'Sons of liberty - George Washington Reads The Declaration Of Independence HD'

(Friday, August 2, 1776; during the American Revolutionary War and the American Revolution) — Delegates to the Second Continental Congress meeting today in Philadelphia began attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Independence, which had been approved July 4, 1776.

The declaration proclaimed that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now sovereign states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire.

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