Tuesday, May 2, 2023

This Month in American Revolution: Tea Act, Ethan Allen, Some Intolrable Acts and Barren Hill and Waxhaws

From the American Battlefield Trust.

MAY 10, 1773

**  Tea Act:  An attempt by Parliament to undercut smugglers by reducing the price of tea to the colonies.

MAY 10, 1775

**  Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys seize Fort Ticonderoga, Second Continental Congress meets.

MAY 20, 1774

**  Administration of Justice Act and Massachusetts Government Act, two of the so-called Intolerable Acts, further anger colonists.

MAY 20, 1778

**  Battle of Barren Hill, Pennsylvania.

MAY 29, 1780

**  Battle of Waxhaws, South Carolina.

--Cooter


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