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Revolutionary leaders knew the importance of setting the narrative and getting their version of events to London first. Today, we are highlighting president of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress Joseph Warren's address, which he delivered to the inhabitants of Great Britain before the British report about the Battles of Lexington and Concord could arrive. Announcing that, "Hostilities are at length commenced... We determine to die or be free," Warren also stressed the colonists' hope for reconciliation. It took a further year of war before Americans resolved to declare independence from Great Britain.
View Warren's address and more records about the historic Battles of Lexington and Concord on display at the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC: visit.archives.gov/whats-on/explore-exhibits/battles-lexington-and-concord#main
đź“ś: Address from Joseph Warren to the Inhabitants of Great Britain, April 26, 1775. Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention. catalog.archives.gov/id/6882946
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Revolutionary leaders knew the importance of setting the narrative and getting their version of events to London first. Today, we are highlighting president of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress Joseph Warren's address, which he delivered to the inhabitants of Great Britain before the British report about the Battles of Lexington and Concord could arrive. Announcing that, "Hostilities are at length commenced... We determine to die or be free," Warren also stressed the colonists' hope for reconciliation. It took a further year of war before Americans resolved to declare independence from Great Britain.
View Warren's address and more records about the historic Battles of Lexington and Concord on display at the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC: visit.archives.gov/whats-on/explore-exhibits/battles-lexington-and-concord#main
đź“ś: Address from Joseph Warren to the Inhabitants of Great Britain, April 26, 1775. Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention. catalog.archives.gov/id/6882946
#ArchivesRoadtoRevolution #Declaration250
@ArchivesFoundation @America250
