During the period from 1763 to 1775, in the twelve years after the French and Indian War and before the outbreak of…

In 1772, Samuel Adams of Boston created the first Committee Of Correspondence, which was primarily an exchange of ideas in letters and…

Unlike the previous wars between European powers in the 1700s, the French And Indian War was begun in North America—in the heartland…

At a meeting of the Second Continental Congress in the summer of 1776, Richard Henry Lee, a delegate from Virginia, proposed that…

Parliament wasted little time invoking its right to “bind” the colonies under the Declaratory Act. The very next year, in 1767, it…

When war erupted in 1775, it seemed clear that Britain would win. It had a large, well-organized land army, and the Royal…