Quartering Act signed into law. This allows the British Army to quater soldiers and officers in private homes. In Boston, the homes picked were community leaders, in order to spy on or disrupt patriotic activity, as well as to cost them money. Eight boatloads of tax protesters boarded and burned to the waterline the British revenue schooner Gaspee, which had run aground in Naragansett Bay, Rhode Island. The Gadsden Flag Flag Day.
Gadsden flags are always in fashion.
The Continental Congress votes to raise an army of 15,000 men. English barons exercised their right to rebellion and forced King John at swordpoint to sign Magna Carta , Runnymede field, England. The Right of Rebellion is confirmed in Article 61. For the complete text, see Sean Gabb's British constitution resource page . The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary , edited by E.J. Hopkins, appeared in 1967.