John Hancock1774
Hancock's boycott of tea imported by the British East India Company leads to the Boston Tea Party
United States of America · Warfare / American War of Independence. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Hancock's boycott of tea imported by the British East India Company leads to the Boston Tea Party
Presides over the Massachusetts Provincial Congress Committee of Safety
Unanimously elected President of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress
Under Hancock Massachusetts is able to raise bands of "minutemen"-soldiers who pledged to be ready for battle
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