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algol13
3 years ago
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How many signers of the declaration were captured by the British

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Oxana [17]3 years ago
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Five signers were captured by the British and brutally tortured as traitors.
Thomas Heyward, Jr., Edward Rutledge and Arthur Middleton, all of South Carolina, were captured by the British during the Charleston Campaign in 1780. They were kept in dungeons at the St. Augustine Prison until exchanged a year later.
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