A Series of Unfortunate Events
A Tweaked Nose and a Coffee House Brawl ∙ An Incident on Boston Neck ∙ The Escapades of John Mein ∙ Tyranny or Chains ∙ The Storied Career of John Wilkes ∙ The MacDougall Affair ∙ The Brawl on Golden Hill ∙ The Saga of Lillie and Richardson ∙ A Martyr’s Funeral A Tweaked Nose and a Coffee House Brawl The end of 1769 and the first months of 1770 saw escalating tensions and confrontations between the opposing sides of the ‘Liberty Fiasco’; these opposing sides weren’t just redcoats versus citizens but also citizens versus citizens, as those loyal to King and Parliament stood against the hotheaded radicals preaching treasonous doctrines. The simmering tensions that lie at the root of the verbal invectives and the occasional scuffles of the past year of British occupation began bubbling over. Blood would be spilled, martyrs would be born, and ‘the American Cause’ would receive its grea...

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