What document formally announced that the colonies were no longer controlled by great Britain

 

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What document formally announced that the colonies were no longer controlled by great Britain?

The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.

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