He gained much of his reputation and respect by his actions in the Parsons Case of 1763, which permitted Anglican Clergy to be paid in currency rather than tobacco which was the commodity mandated by the British Government. ... Henry led the fight of the American colonists against the British Parliament to have the taxation act revoked. ... At the Virginian Convention in 1775 he was able to successfully promote and initiate measures for an armed resistance to the British imposition on the American Colonies. ... In 1775, news of the battles at Lexington and Concord had spread to Virginia. ... F...

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The Revolutionary war fought from 1775-1783 was the War for Independence from the British Empire leaving the 13 colonies to be an independent nation and become the United States. ... Although Britain had won the war, King George II decided to undertake a new colonial policy intended to tighten political control over its rather autonomous colonies. ... The first of several laws to achieve this was the Proclamation of 1763. ... "That shift in imperial policy," writes historian Alan Taylor, "shocked the colonial leaders of the Atlantic seaboard into recognizing and defending their distinctive wa...

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The British government of the time favored a policy of mercantilism, although laws such as the Navigation Act were only loosely enforced to regulate commerce in the British interest. This all changed abruptly in 1763. The Treaty of Paris removed a long-standing threat to the colonies (from the French) while at the same time Great Britain, under George Grenville undertook a new colonial policy intended to tighten political control over the colonies and to make them effectively pay for their defense and return income to England. ... However before the Congress could meet again, on the morning...

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Many historians argue that foreign policies and war significantly influenced the outbreak of the French Revolution by causing great financial difficulties. Since the late 17th century, France had participated in a series of wars: the Nine Years' War (1688-1697); the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713); the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) which left France with little territorial gain; the Seven Years War (1756-1763) which merely added to the debt; culminating in the American War of Independence (1775-1783). ... The King's reputation relied on maintaining a strong pos...

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