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Saturday, June 11, 2022
When George Washington “went to the Fire works”
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One of the arguments for the importance of the Gaspee incident in the American Revolution is that George Washington attended fireworks in...
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Virginia Takes an Even Less Firm Stand Against the Stamp Act
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None of Virginia’s established political leaders liked the Stamp Act . Gov. Francis Fauquier (shown here) had advised his superiors in Lo...
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Virginia Takes a Less Firm Stand Against the Stamp Act
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On this date 250 years ago the Virginia House of Burgesses took up the resolutions against the Stamp Act that Patrick Henry had drafted ...
Friday, May 29, 2015
Virginia Considers a Firm Stand Against the Stamp Act
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Britain’s North American colonies had a chance to weigh in on the Stamp Act before Parliament passed it, as described back here . All of...
Friday, February 24, 2012
John Adams on Benjamin Harrison’s “Pleasantries”?
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Yesterday I quoted John Adams ’s critical description of Benjamin Harrison , a Virginian delegate to the Continental Congress , in his auto...
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