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13.1 Notes Some British Troops Retreated After A Brief Stand While Others Took Refuge In Nassau Hall Which Became The Target Of Colonel Alexander Hamilton's Cannons Washington's Troops Charged The British Surrendered In Less Than An Hour And 194 Soldiers Laid Down Their Arms. Howe Retreated To New York City Where His Army Remained Inactive Until Early The Next Year. Washington's Depleted Continental Army Took Up Winter Headquarters In Morristown New Jersey While Disrupting British Supply Lines And Expelling Them From Parts Of New Jersey Washington Later Said That The British Could Have Successfully Counter-attacked His Encampment Before His Troops Were Dug In
The American colonials proclaimed "no taxation without representation" starting with the Stamp Act Congress in 1765 They rejected the authority of the British Parliament to tax them because they had no representatives in that governing body Protests steadily escalated to the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the burning of the Gaspee in Rhode Island in 1772 followed by the Boston Tea Party in December 1773 the British responded by closing Boston Harbor and enacting a series of punitive laws which effectively rescinded Massachusetts Bay Colony's rights of self-government the other colonies rallied behind Massachusetts and a group of American Patriot leaders set up their own government in late 1774 at the Continental Congress to coordinate their resistance of Britain; other colonists retained their allegiance to the Crown and were known as Loyalists or Tories, Congress reflects us in all our strengths and all our weaknesses it reflects our regional idiosyncrasies our ethnic religious and racial diversity our multitude of professions and our shadings of opinion on everything from the value of war to the war over values Congress is the government's most representative body . Congress is essentially charged with reconciling our many points of view on the great public policy issues of the day, Washington D.C. Business Directory Read's entry into the political arena was as a commissioner of the town of Charlestown Maryland; ; ! William Henry Drayton South Carolina 1 Yes, 6.1.4 Public perceptions of Congress, 10 References 10.2 References Portrait of Admiral Cockburn at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich with Washington burning in the background the U.S Capitol and Treasury Building are at far right. .
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