Britain's National Archives: Copy of Declaration of Independence found in papers of captured US ship

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1. I heard the BBC their midday broadcast to the US

That the Brits will be displaying it there
From the BBCarticle
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrkl104ly5o

snip-It is one of 11 copies printed in Exeter, New Hampshire in July 1776 to spread news of American independence through the colonies before it was seized by British forces.

snip-"...It's a vanishingly rare surviving copy of the Declaration of Independence, found not in America, but here in the UK."

The document was seized by the Royal Navy on Christmas Eve 1776 when the HMS Raisonable captured an American ship, the Dalton, off the coast of Portugal following a seven-hour pursuit.

Dr Graham Moore from The National Archives said the discovery is "one of the rarest forms of the Declaration we know about", adding that it was not meant to be preserved due to the intention to distribute it quickly."