This year, America marks 250 years since it declared independence from Britain. Today, that kind of breaking news would hit our phones in seconds but back in 1776 it took weeks for word of one of history’s biggest political break‑ups to cross the Atlantic. So how did Britain finally find out? CNN’s James Frater went to the National Maritime Museum in London, where curators have unveiled a special display — including a rare handwritten copy of the Declaration of Independence, believed to be one of the very first documents to inform Britons of what had happened.
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