Give signers their due on Independence Day
Many of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence are not well known. Today's Americans still owe them a debt of gratitude.
Had the Revolutionary War been a flop, the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence might have found themselves on the colonial equivalent of America’s Most Wanted.
The fear was that British troops would do their best to round up the signers and bring them to justice – at the end of a rope.
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