5: "Delenda est Bostonia:" a Congress, Paul Rides, & the First Shot at Lexington
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The First Continental Congress in 1774
Moderate new yorker john j supports it. Patrick henry, who is really coming to dislike moderates and talks trash behind their backs, speaks forcefully against it. The plan narrowly doesn't pass. With six colonies, four and five against,. They vote to table it. But ultimately, they'll expunge the plan from the record. Two weeks later, on october, fourteenth congress settles its long debate over colonial rights with its declaration and resolves.
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