This act was passed to assert the authority of the British government to tax its subjects in North Americ after it repealed the much-hated Stamp Act...
General Thomas Gage, Commander-in-Chief of all British forces in North America, writes to acting Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson concerning...
In March 1775, the Patriot legislature of Virginia met for the second time in St. John's Episcopal Church in Richmond. Patrick Henry is said to have...