Cast Off the British Yoke: The Old Dominion and American Independence, 1763-1776
By Michael Cecere.
Description
“Resolved unanimously that [Virginia’s] delegates in General Congress be instructed to propose to that respectable body to declare the United Colonies free and independent upon the crown or parliament of Great Britain…” 5th Virginia Convention, May 15, 1776. With this historic vote, His Majesty’s Old Dominion (Virginia) effectively declared its independence from Great Britain. This bold act in the spring of 1776, an act that was inconceivable to most Virginians just twelve months earlier, was the culmination of a decade long dispute between the American coloni...
ISBN(s)
0788455680, 9780788455681
