CSPAN2 Book TV January 2, 2013
London chronicle was the issue in which they announce the repeal of the stamp act and one of the ways that the stamp that, or one of the causes of the repeal to the stamp act is the boycott of British Goods and what that did is in essence, it made the london merchants become american lobbyists lobbying parliament for the repeal of the act. And so you read in the london chronicles how the london merchants were celebrating and how, as soon as the doors to parliament opened the london merchants had a commissioned ship, a light, fast ship ready to speed across the atlantic and tell the americans a...