%olution and evolutton Wil WO HUNDRED YEARS AGO a p r Americans began on May 15, 1776, here in Williamsburg and closed in Ph May was a month of sweeping rebellious passed since the blood of minutemen first The British army under patriot siege Bostor... Independence was in tl,_e air. North Carolina delegates to the Cominen had received instructions from home to colonies stood more or less ready to second th take the lead. Virginia took the lead . In the Capitol bu came the first in chain of actions that led d Independence on July 4· The remarkable events here during 1776 tion: loyal British subjects becoming Am Crucial to this resolution of loyalties was t.h just before the Revolution, starting in 1765 w meeting at the Capitol in Williamsburg, ado resolves against the British imposed Stamp A to observe, "Mr. Henry certainly gave the revolution." Three years later the legislators again right to tax the colonies, not even through su hated Townshend Acts. The royal governor bly, and the lawmakers marched to the ~<~Llt: l~' L l 1 COME TO HISTORIC YIRGINIA The Colonial Capitol . ' Road Map & General Informationfor Visitors COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG iy
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