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  • What is the Basis for the Theory of the Declaration?

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He is, at this time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages...

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This refers to the hiring by King George of foreign mercenary troops to fight against the colonists.

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