Answer : He had been a representative in the house of burgesses prior to the American Revolution. He wrote the Declaration of Independence. During the war he served as a state representative and governor of Virginia. He was an ambassador to France.
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Galileo was ordered to turn himself the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church. Standard practice demanded that the accused be imprisoned and secluded during the trial.
The revolutionary war (america gaining independence from Britain)
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