American Revolution Primary Sources | Notes from the Battlefronts

• Lord Dunmore
• Joseph Plumb Martin
• Thomas Paine
• Eliza Wilkinson
• Horace Walpole
• George Washington

Ever since 1765, the British government (Parliament) had been trying to collect taxes in America to pay British bills. Americans protested right from the beginning that Parliament had no right to tax people who had no representation...