Today's American Minute — British Quartering

Indian Massacres, Bengal Famine, British Taxes, and Patriots Otis, Warren, & Hancock - American Minute with Bill Federer

& the Boston Massacre British Quartering Indian Massacres

Indian Massacres, Bengal Famine, British Taxes, and Patriots Otis, Warren, & Hancock - American Minute with Bill Federer

James Otis wrote in "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved," 1764: "If every prince since Nimrod had been a tyrant, it would not prove a right to tyrannize. There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the law of nature and the grant of GOD Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free."

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French & Indian War - First Global War - American Minute with Bill Federer

& the Boston Massacre British Quartering Indian Massacres

French & Indian War - First Global War - American Minute with Bill Federer

The web of alliances that Britain and France had with other countries entangled much of the world in war. Britain's allies included Prussia, Hanover, Hesse, Brunswick, Schaumberg, Portugal, and Iroquois. France's allies included Austria, Russia, Sweden, Saxony, Spain and India's Mughal Empire. It is considered to be the first "world" war.

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