All posts tagged "townshend acts"
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40.2K2ConnecticutHow the Daughters of Liberty Fought for Independence
On August 14, 1768, the Daughters of Liberty cheered from windows as the Sons of Liberty paraded through Boston to commemorate their...
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35.2K12MassachusettsThe Liberty Affair – John Hancock Loses a Ship and Starts a Riot
In the spring of 1768, Boston smuggler Daniel Malcolm approached the British customs officials overseeing the port of Boston. And so he...
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10.5KConnecticutNew England Colonists Thunderstruck by the Lightning Storms of 1768
Terrific lightning storms unsettled New England colonists during the summer of 1768, when rising tensions with Great Britain led to conflict and...
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66.5K6MassachusettsChristopher Seider: The First Casualty in the American Revolutionary Cause
Christopher Seider was just 11 in 1770, a working boy in Boston at a time when the city was awash in the...
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33.9K10MassachusettsCrispus Attucks, ‘The First To Defy, The First To Die’ in the Boston Massacre
On the wintry night of March 5, 1770, a tall, angry sailor named Crispus Attucks led a resentful mob of civilians in a fight...
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15.4K18MassachusettsBenjamin Edes, Father of the Boston Tea Party and Keeper of Its Secrets
Benjamin Edes instigated and paid for the Boston Tea Party – and, to his death, guarded the secret list of all who participated. Edes...
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