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“The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit ... till custom and use shall make us ... tame and abject slaves. ...” George Washington to his friend and neighbor Bryan Fairfax, a royalist, after the “Boston Tea Party.”
Sam Adams, often referred to as the Father of the American Revolution, applauded his “gang,” ill disguised as Indians, on a crisp, December night in 1774, for tossing three shiploads of the King’s tea overboard into Boston Harbor. On guard that night, keeping lookout was John Hancock, a compatriot of Adams’. The two were to become the Crown’s “Most Wanted.” Paul Revere was to save them from capture at a later time.
History records the fact that King George III was not an evil man. Far from it, he evidenced much of a character that most would find laudable. According to Churchill, he was one of the most conscientious sovereigns to ever sit the English throne.
It was not...
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