On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town ...
Occurring on March 2, 1775 — 48 days before the first shots rang out at Lexington and Concord — Rhode Islanders set British ...
Ten years before the American Revolution, Charles Pratt ... the floor of the House of Lords to argue that members of the British Parliament “have no right to tax the Americans.” ...
The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's ... it called for greater American autonomy and limits on Parliament's power over the colonies. The first session ...
On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a mob of American colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins ...