"HISTORY BOOKS"
Totally Dissolved: The Lee Resolution and Independence
By: Michael Boldin|Published on: Jun 7, 2021
June 7, 1776: Following instructions from Virginia’s Fifth Revolutionary Convention, Richard Henry Lee introduced a resolution in the Second Continental Congress to declare independence, along with a call to form foreign alliances, and a “plan for confederation.”
As Mercy Otis Warren described it,
“Their transactions might have been legally styled treasonable, but loyalty had lost its influence, and power its terrors.”
Path to Liberty: June 7, 2021