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    The Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms was a Resolution adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 6, 1775, which explains...
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    Second Continental Congress (category United States Declaration of Independence)
    strategy, appointing diplomats, and writing petitions such as the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and the Olive Branch Petition. All...
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    Britain and entreated King George III to prevent further conflict. It was followed by the July 6 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, however...
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    Pine Tree Flag (category Flags of the American Revolution)
    in the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms. Subsequently, the phrase was used again by the Second Continental Congress in the Declaration...
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    of the Continental Army (July 2) Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms issued (July 6) Olive Branch Petition sent to King George III...
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    to write the final draft of the 1775 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms. While in Congress, Dickinson served on the committee...
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    1775) Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (July 1775) Continental Marines formed by act of Congress (November 10, 1775) with the following...
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    1950). "The Disputed Authorship of the Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, 1775". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography...
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    The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America (in the engrossed version but not...
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    The Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (also known as the Declaration of Colonial Rights, or the Declaration of Rights) was a...
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