Second-Contintental-Congress

=**Second Continental Congress**=

After war broke out with Britain in April of 1775, George Washington came to the Second Continental Congress in military uniform ready to serve. The Second Continental Congress named George Washington Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. The Second Continental Congress would be the body that would declare independence on July 4, 1776, by which point George Washington would already have been at war.


 * Second Continental Congress voting on independence**

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