The Long Fuse - Thirteen Clocks
After the Boston Massacre, the great quarrel with Britain seemed to burn out. The soldiers sailed home, the boycotts collapsed, and London congratulated itself that the trouble was over. It was not ov...
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The Long Fuse - The Boston Massacre
On the night of March 5th, 1770, 8 terrified British soldiers, pelted with ice and clubs by a Boston crowd screaming at them to fire, fired. 5 colonists died. Samuel Adams called it a massacre, and Pa...
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The Long Fuse - The Townshend Acts
When the colonists beat the Stamp Act, they drew a careful line: Parliament could tax their trade, but not reach inside the colonies for revenue. In 1767, a brilliant, reckless Chancellor of the Exche...
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The Long Fuse - In All Cases Whatsoever
In January 1766, a gout-stricken William Pitt had himself carried into the House of Commons to tell his colleagues something no statesman of his rank had dared to say: that he rejoiced America had res...
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The Long Fuse - The Sons of Liberty
In the summer of 1765, the argument over the Stamp Act came down out of the pamphlets and into the streets. This is the story of the Sons of Liberty: the Boston effigy that hung from the Liberty Tree,...
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The Long Fuse - If This Be Treason
He was a 29-year-old backcountry lawyer in shabby clothes, nine days into his first term, in a chamber full of the most powerful men in Virginia. By the time he sat down, he had compared King George t...
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The Long Fuse - Virtual Representation
The Stamp Act of 1765 was a small tax. To the men who wrote it in London, it was the most reasonable thing in the world: the colonies should help pay for their own defense. So why did a few pennies on...
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The Long Fuse - The Price of Victory
In 1763, the proudest British subjects in the world were Americans. They had just helped win the greatest war in their empire’s history, expelling France from the continent and lighting bonfires from ...
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