Shouldn't have faffed around with basically passive-aggressive laws. Should have just sent in the redcoats "Yeah...nope."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts …
"To punish the Province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act
To establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies"
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The Boston "Massacre" was apparently five people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre … Should have started with about five thousand.
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The colonies were utterly dependent on outside forces for security, but felt entitled to not pay for them.
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Of course all this leads back to England allowing a parliament in the first place. Should have - at worst - been abolished by this time.
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