On this day 250 years ago in Boston, General Gage dispatched three Men-of-War and six transports to raid Block Island, Fisher’s Island, Gardiner’s Island, and Plumb Island in Long Island Sound in order to seize livestock to feed the British troops besieged in Boston.
Source: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/siege-of-boston/
On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress approved an address to the Assembly of Jamaica decrying that
The first and best maxims of the constitution, venerable to Britons and to Americans, were perverted and profaned. The power of parliament, derived from the people, to bind the people, was extended over those from whom it was never derived. It isasserted that a standing army may be constitutionally kept among us, without our consent. Those principles, dishonorable to those who adopted them, and destructive to those to whom they were applied, were nevertheless carried into execution by the foes of liberty and of mankind.
On that same day Congress authorized a “sum, amounting to one million of dollars, be struck in bills of Thirty dollars each.”
Source: Journals of the Continental Congress at 204-07, accessed at https://archive.org/details/us_congress_continental/lljc002/page/205/mode/2up; https://americanfounding.org/entries/second-continental-congress-july-25-1775/
And on that same day, Maryland issued its own currency showing the King trampling on the Magna Carta.
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