5: "Delenda est Bostonia:" a Congress, Paul Rides, & the First Shot at Lexington
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Boston and the Coercive Acts
Boston has been the biggest colonial thorn in parliaments side since the end of the seven years war a decade ago. Last year, on december sixteenth, 17 73, boston added to that fact with the destruction of over nine thousand pounds sterling worth of east india company tea expressly shipped as a part of parliament's new tea act. Seeing themselves as patient and long suffering of not patriotic, but rebellious colonials, members of parliament array to punish by early 17 74.
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