USA Day 250
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Welcome to the 250th Birthday celebration of America. Join us over the next year and a half in sharing family traditions and community celebrations.
30 March 1775, Boston, Massachusetts. General Thomas Gage ordered Brigadier General Lord Hugh Percy to lead roughly 1,200 troops of the First Brigade on a planned show of force. The column marched from Boston Common toward Cambridge through Roxbury and Brookline. Alerted militias positioned two cannons at Watertown Bridge and removed the planks, but they did not resist when the British approached; the cannons were abandoned, and the troops moved on unopposed before returning. This tense display increased revolutionary tensions just weeks before Lexington and Concord. #RevWar #History #AmRev
30 March 1775. London. King George III granted royal assent to the New England Restraining Act (formally the New England Trade and Fisheries Act), a punitive measure introduced by Prime Minister Lord North amid escalating colonial unrest following the Boston Tea Party and Lexington/Concord skirmishes. The act, effective July 1, 1775, restricted trade from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island exclusively to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British West Indies, prohibiting commerce with foreign nations or other colonies. A further provision, starting July 20, banned New England vessels from the vital North Atlantic fisheries (especially the Grand Banks), crippling the region's economy and fishing industry. Enforced by naval blockade, it aimed to economically coerce rebellious New England but instead fueled unity and resentment, contributing to the Revolutionary War; the act was later superseded by the broader Prohibitory Act in December 1775. #RevWar #History #AmRev
