Tag: revolutionary-war
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December, 1774: The Shot, Not
As the Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party approached, tensions were running high throughout New England. The port of Boston had been closed by numerous British ships, including a 50-gun man-of-war floating in the harbor, and another in the Charles River. The only entrance to the town was guarded by a regiment on either side…
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Fall 1774: Thanksgiving
250 years ago, Boston was an armed camp. In the wake of the Tea Party, a new Royal Governor was appointed to take control of the town and enforce the Intolerable Acts that had been imposed by Parliament. The guy who was chosen was none other than General Thomas Gage, the most noteworthy British soldier…
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October 1774: Resolution
250 years ago this week, the First Continental Congress concluded, with little decided and much hanging in the balance. Delegates from all the colonies except Georgia, including such notables as John Adams, Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, John Jay, and Roger Sherman, and led by President Peyton Randolph of Virginia and Secretary Charles Thomson of Pennsylvania,…
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May 1774: The Empire Strikes Back
On May 13, 1774, a large vessel sailed into Boston Harbor. It wasn’t a whaler, it wasn’t a trading ship of any kind. It was the HMS Lively, a 20-gun post ship of the Royal Navy that was commissioned in 1756 and had seen action against the French throughout the 7-Years War. But on this…
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Spring 1774: Intolerable
In the aftermath of the destruction of the Francis Scott Key bridge this past week, folks in Baltimore and throughout the United States can’t help wondering – as we head into what should usually be a spring full of promise – what the future may hold with the closure of one of the largest ports…
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