In the 1760s and 1770s, Britain levied taxes and duties on ... Some Bostonians taunted and threw rocks at the British soldiers who occupied the town to keep order. On March 5, 1770, the Brits ...

They were more likely to have a loyalty to their town and colony, and feel less of a connection to England. By the start of the 1770s, Massachusetts residents were becoming irritated by the ...

On January 25, 1770, James Brindley, the canal’s engineer, announced at a meeting in the Crown Inn that he was now ...

From Mount Washington to Stowe to Woodstock to Williamstown, these are the best places to see fall foliage on a road trip in ...

Calcutta in the late 1770s was Asia's biggest boom town: known as the City of Palaces, the East India Company's bridgehead in Bengal had doubled in size to 400,000 inhabitants in a decade.

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Other early expeditions passed through the valley during the 1770s. The diarists of these expeditions ... charged with serving the religious needs of the town of San José. However, its Franciscan ...

Modern factories in advanced economies are much larger still: Volkswagen's main factory in Wolfsburg, Germany employs more than 60,000 workers - half the town's ... whose 1770s cotton mill was ...

A new blue plaque on the former Crown Inn was formally unveiled by the Mayor of Retford, Cllr David Naylor, as part of the ...

According to the Eastham Historical Society website, "The Eastham Windmill, located on the Green in the center of Town, was built in Plymouth about 1680. It was moved to Truro in the 1770s and ...

Judith Hewitt, Curator for Dumfries and Galloway Museums (East), said: "By the 1770s, it was considered notable that Sanquhar was involved in knitwear and a lot of the people in the town were ...