Poseidon's Curse

British Naval Impressment and the Atlantic Origins of the American Revolution

• Author(s): Christopher Paul Magra,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 0
• ISBN_10: 1316876187
  ISBN_13: 9781316876183
  
• Language: en

Description:... "The American Revolution was deeply moored in maritime matters. Benjamin Franklin explained this to an angry Parliament in 1766. He had been in London lobbying the British government on behalf of several North American colonies. Members of the House of Commons called on him to explain why colonists violently protested against the Stamp Act. Americans had rioted up and down the Eastern Seaboard when this legislation imposed a tax on printed documents in order to raise revenue to pay down debts the British government had incurred fighting the Seven Years' War."--Provided by publisher.