On this day in 1769, George Washington [1] launched a legislative salvo at Great Britain’s fiscal and judicial attempts to maintain its control over the American colonies. He brought a package of non-importation resolutions, drafted by George Mason [2](pictured) before the Virginia House of Burgesses. This initiated a chain of events that led to Britain’s House of Lords demanding that men involved in the extra-legal Massachusetts convention of towns be tried in England. Britain’s plan backfired and created an American identity where before there had been none.
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Today we present a guest article selected by JWR that is not part of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest [3].
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#1 Comment By JBH On May 17, 2020 @ 1:48 pm
Excuse me I missed the words selected by.
#2 Comment By anonymous On May 17, 2020 @ 8:36 pm
“Britain’s House of Lords demanding that men involved in the extra-legal Massachusetts convention of towns be tried in England.”
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John Adams: The Intolerable Acts