On this day 250 years ago in London, King George III signs the New England Restraining Act. The Act prohibited the New England colonies — Massachusetts, New Hamphshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut from trading with any country but Great Britain.
Sources: https://www.historycentral.com/documents/NERestraining.html; https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/march-30/king-george-endorses-new-england-restraining-act
On this day 250 years ago in Massachusetts, the First Brigade of the British Army, four regiments totalling about 1200 men, marches from Boston nine miles through Roxbury and Brookline to the Watertown Bridge over the Charles River. Instead of crossing they then turn around and march back to Boston. In response to this march, before the end of the day the Massachusetts Provincial Congress in Concord issues the following resolution :
Whenever the army under command of General Gage, or any part thereof to the number of five hundred, shall march out of the town of Boston, with artillery and baggage, it ought to be deemed a design to carry into execution by force the late acts of Parliament, the attempting of which, by the resolve of the late honourable Continental Congress, ought to be opposed; and therefore the military force of the Province ought to be assembled, and an army of observation immediately formed, to act solely on the defensive so long as it can be justified on the principles of reason and self-preservation.
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