The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

As Alexis Coe writes in her history of the First Continental Congress, today, George III is “remembered as the man who lost ...

Right-wing British Member of Parliament Nigel Farage responded favorably to the idea of the United States joining the British ...

In 1773 Samuel Adams, John's cousin and a revolutionary ... British Parliament then passed the Tea Act, which granted the British East India Company a monopoly to sell tea in the American colonies.

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.” ...

George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the time of the American Revolution, has been maligned unfairly. During ...

In the 1770s, the power of the British king was limited by the authority of Parliament. In that system ... General – for more than a century and a half at the time of the American Revolution. British ...

The British Parliament had imposed a tax on the colonies ... to be the start of the American Revolution. Prominent Rhode Islanders rowed out to the Gaspee, which had run aground near Warwick.

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 ...

The British Parliament, attempting to address the debt the nation had incurred during the French and Indian War, concluded ...