17 MARCH 1776, PHILADELPHIA: The news that Britain has hired German armies to fight in America “ought to extinguish in every Mind all Hopes of Reconciliation with G. Britain,” John Adams writes to Abigail: founders.archives.gov/documents/Adam…

18 March 1766, London. Prime Minister Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham, convened Parliament to reaffirm authority over the colonies through the Declaratory Act. The British Parliament—having seen the House of Commons vote for repeal earlier that month—secured

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OTD 1766,The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.

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A Year with George Washington March 18th wp.me/pePTDj-2lY King George III gives his assent to the repeal of the Stamp Act following colonial uproar over its passage the previous year.

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth” — George Orwell

On March 18, 1314, Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was burned at the stake on a small island in the Seine in Paris, in front of Notre Dame Cathedral. He had spent seven years in prison being tortured into a confession of heresy, which he later

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The Commencement of the Quarrel - John Pettie.

19 MARCH 1776, PHILADELPHIA: The Continental Congress agrees to issue letters of marque authorizing privateers to prey on British ships, a major victory of the pro-independence faction, but John Adams is unhappy at the three members chosen to draft the regulations:

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19 MARCH 1776, PHILADELPHIA: “Our late King & his Parliament having declared us Rebels & Enemies, confiscated our property, … have effectually decided the question for us, whether or no we shou’d be independent,” writes Virginia congressional delegate Francis Lightfoot Lee.