The Declaration of Independence, from HBO's "John Adams"

Clip from "John Adams" episode 2, "Independence". The 2nd Continental Congress votes in favor of declaring independence from Great Britain, and the declaration is read throughout the colonies.
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[@Narrowgaugefilms]

I like that they showed Dickinson in uniform and on horseback. He didn't support Independence, but he did put his life on the line for it when it became a fact.

[@StephenSchaal]

Those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it

[@godssara6758]

God Bless America

[@yvonneplant9434]

HBO needs to re-broadcast this series. I believe it would help modern Americans understand our country much better. The courage of them all astounds me all the time. They would have been tried for treason and executed if they failed.

[@jaysonpida5379]

...and then Washington on the continent and Franklin in Paris had to pull a 'miracle' out of their a&&es...

[@kate2create738]

And that they achieved.

[@swk38]

need to read the grievances against tyrannical george, as they are listed in the declaration

[@Benjamin_Rush]

I saw a John Hancock!!!

[@richrent]

If 'Wendy Byrde' had appropriated her anger correctly.

[@clivejungle6999]

Dont thank France. Thank Austria or Prussia. Without one of them distracting France, Britain had to keep significant forces at home to defend against Franco-Spanish invasion. Because Britain was only a naval power with 10 million people. It needed a continental power to do most of the dying in Europe.

[@danjordan6387]

“God save our 50 states long live United States. God save our states.”

[@pcbacklash_3261]

It wasn't "god" who saved our American states. It was the French (who now are scoffed at by imbeciles as 'surrenderers', thanks to WWII). Thank you, France. We'll always owe you big time!

[@swk38]

france was having their own civil strife at the time

[@richardstephens5570]

The U.S. repaid it's debt to France during WWII. We're even.

[@mmgreen31]

💯. And we repaid them, twice.

[@pcbacklash_3261]

@@mmgreen31 True enough!

[@arlonfoster9997]

Yes this is why we shouldn’t look our noses down on the French because they helped us