He left Northern Ireland as a 10-year-old boy to chase the American dream - and ended up playing a pivotal role in world history by printing the first copies of the United States' Declaration of Independence.
John Dunlap, who fought alongside George Washington in the American War of Independence, was honoured on Wednesday with a blue plaque in his native Strabane, County Tyrone, where he was born in 1746.
People gathered outside Gray's Printers to hear how he travelled to Philadelphia in 1757 to work in his uncle William's printing business.
He would go on to print about 200 copies of the founding document of the United States on 4 July 1776.
The Declaration of Independence formally announced the 13 colonies' separation from Great Britain and helped set the American Revolutionary War in motion.
John Dunlap, who fought alongside George Washington in the American War of Independence, was honoured on Wednesday with a blue plaque in his native Strabane, County Tyrone, where he was born in 1746.
People gathered outside Gray's Printers to hear how he travelled to Philadelphia in 1757 to work in his uncle William's printing business.
He would go on to print about 200 copies of the founding document of the United States on 4 July 1776.
The Declaration of Independence formally announced the 13 colonies' separation from Great Britain and helped set the American Revolutionary War in motion.
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