Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

American opponents of the Stamp Act would refuse to purchase British goods in order to put commercial pressure on Parliament to repeal the act. The tactic worked. In March 1766, Parliament ...

Roberts finds him not guilty of all but two: the 17th, which concerns taxation, and the 22nd, regarding the British Parliament’s legislative powers in the colonies. Even here, there’s room for ...

Stanley Weintraub discusses Iron Tears, his recently published history of the American Revolution from the British perspective. King George III and Britons in the 1770s felt the colonists were ...

American Revolution Reinvents Guerrilla ... you tell us that the British in the Revolutionary War realized ... It now had to respect the power of public opinion as expressed in parliament.

The British abandoned the American slaves who fought on their side in the Revolution. The British Empire benefited directly from the cotton produced by the American slaves for decades after the ...