17761776 Club
Washington has the Declaration read aloud to every brigade; British ships fill the harbor
Howe is massing troops on Staten Island, and the men who just heard the words that made them revolutionaries will face them within weeks.
By July 1776, New York Harbor was filling with British ships, and Washington knew an invasion was coming. On July 9, he ordered the Declaration of Independence read aloud to every brigade of the Continental Army gathered in Manhattan. Across the water on Staten Island, General William Howe was massing thousands of troops for what would become the Battle of Long Island. The men heard the words that made them revolutionaries just weeks before they had to fight as one…
