How it Impacts
America’s Revolutionary War (1775-1783) was a civil insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies won political independence and formed the…
The Ratification of the Treaty of Paris of 1783
Under English law, the legal status of each colonist was defined by the same protocol used for the first 19 Africans, who arrived…
General Henry Clinton: The Phillipsburg Proclamation
British Commander-in-Chief, General Henry Clinton issued The Phillipsburg Proclamation on June 30, 1779… an iteration of England’s Southern Strategy of 1775. The proclamation…
Thomas Jefferson: Roman Law Gambit
Brilliantly orchestrated by Lord Chief Justice Mansfield… the unanimous decision of His Majesty’s King’s Bench in the Somerset case in 1772 delivered a…