The Eye of the Storm
New York & The Quartering Act ∙ Champagne Charlies ∙ The Townshend Acts ∙ Nonconsumption & Nonimportation ∙ A Farmer in Pennsylvania ∙ Lord North Takes Charge ∙ The Massachusetts Circular Letter ∙ Impressment by the Romney ∙ The Seizure of the Liberty ∙ The Glorious Ninety-Two ∙ The Sons of Liberty Rise Again ∙ Redcoats to Boston The Townsend Acts A decade would pass between the repeal of the Stamp Act and the battles of Lexington and Concord, which is considered by most to be the ‘official’ beginning of the American War of Independence. Though the Stamp Act crisis had passed, another was around the corner. Patriot leaders took the lessons of the Stamp Act to heart, and they would press for the same sort of intercolonial unity that had been so critical to the effectiveness of the boycotts that helped put the Stamp Act in its grave. Even more, they would l...