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Was 1775 really the main pivot point in the fight for independence? 1760? 1607? The Founders themselves weren’t sure.
The phrase was reportedly first used 250 years ago Sunday by lawyer and legislator Patrick Henry to persuade Virginia colonists to prepare for war against an increasingly punitive Great Britain, just ...
In their village north of Boston, they opposed the Stamp Act in 1765, and when war erupted in April 1775 ... their town has a memorial to the “colonists whose sacrifice during the Revolutionary War ...
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In 1765, Henry won a seat in Virginia’s colonial ... Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution.” One was Ralph Henry, who was enslaved by Patrick Henry and evidently took the famous ...
In their village north of Boston, they opposed the Stamp Act in 1765, and when war erupted ... whose sacrifice during the Revolutionary War for American Independence gave us a free nation.