Don Wildman

You can find these historic landmarks.

I live in Westchester County, north of New York, and you know that that Declaration was read on the steps of a certain building in White Plains, New York.

Oh, my God.

I'm going right there to do this.

It brings a sense of legitimacy to everything that had been, you know, talk, talk, talk until then.

And a couple of battles, of course.

But we were we're now a legitimate force with ideas behind this cause.

But also, as we mentioned before, it is an advertisement to foreign powers that we know what we're doing, or at least we have an idea behind what we're doing.

And that is going to be invaluable.

Yeah, that it was worth the risk.

But as you say, they weren't interested in the political ramifications.

They wanted to beat England and use this to their greatest advantage.

The huge luxury of history is we're able to see the lasting effects of an important event, or in this case, a document

Let's talk about what later movements were inspired by this declaration.

We mentioned, and people do not realize, most people don't understand that the middle of the 1800s, 1848 is the famous year, which is the year of revolutions.

All of that is led up to by the thoughts and philosophies that are behind our revolution.

It's all kind of a piece, really.

Yeah.

So the revolutions that we're talking about, of course, are the French Revolution.

How was that declaration fundamental to theirs?