Sunday, June 12, 2011
On this Date in 1775...
...American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged. Presumably because one made beer better than anyone in England, and the other for having way to big a signature.
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