1774: “[t]he die is now cast, the colonies must either submit or triumph,” he wrote to Lord North. King George III The British move on Lexington and Concord, as each act of Parliament had done ...

NEW KENT — The 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry and his Hanover County volunteer militia’s march through New Kent County en ...

The restrictions on who can stand for Parliament are "significant and arguably unreasonable", an election observer mission ...

Issues raised by the latest mission from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association to observe elections in the Cayman Islands include campaign finance, the ...

The effort to make Canada the 14th colony had proved a failure. Although it was never a colony, Vermont, not Canada, would become the 14th state.

In March 1774, British Parliament punished the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party with the Coercive Acts, which closed the Port of Boston, reduced Massachusetts’ powers of self ...

Parliament declared Massachusetts in open rebellion, and British General Thomas Gage ... Her entries from October 1774 to May 1775 reveal growing unease. "It seams we have troublesome times ...

Two-and-a-half centuries after it was first delivered, Patrick Henry’s famous quote, “give me liberty or give me death,” ...

Events started to come to a head when Parliament passed the Coercive Acts of 1774, which empowered the British Fleet to blockade Boston Harbor and the Redcoat army to occupy the city and impose ...