![]() ![]() But gradually much of Massachusetts rose up against the British.Īt the same time the British army presence in Boston was growing, and Boston was witnessing what Warren called “the power but not the justice, the vengeance but not the wisdom of Great Britain.”Īnd this, of real importance: The country people outside Boston were becoming radicalized. No one really expected war in the period we now regard as the run-up to the conflict at Lexington and eventually Bunker Hill. If something had happened, someone caused it to happen, and Boston was now the victim of a more-than-decade-old plot on the part of the British ministry to enslave America, to drain this bounteous land of all her resources so that England, an island lost to luxury and corruption, could sustain the fraudulent lifestyle to which it had become accustomed.” “There were no unintended consequences in the eighteenth century. ![]()
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