Everything about The Battle Of Golden Hill totally explained
The
Battle of Golden Hill was a clash between
British soldiers and British colonists that occurred on
January 19 1770 in
New York City. Along with the
Boston Massacre and the
Gaspée Affair, the event was one of the early violent incidents in what would become the
American Revolution.
During the imperial crisis with Britain in the 1760s, the
Sons of Liberty (or "Liberty Boys") in New York City sometimes erected "
Liberty poles" to symbolize their displeasure with British authorities. The first such pole was put up in City Hall Park on
May 21,
1766, in celebration of the repeal of the
1765 Stamp Act. After the New York Assembly finally voted to comply with the
Quartering Act in December 1769,
Alexander McDougall issued an anonymous broadside entitled "To the Betrayed Inhabitants of the City and Colony of
New York". In response, on
January 17,
1770, British soldiers sawed down a Liberty pole. The "
red coats" also posted their own handbills which attacked the Sons of Liberty as "the real enemies of society" who "thought their freedom depended on a piece of wood".
On
January 19,
1770, six weeks before the
Boston Massacre,
Isaac Sears and others tried to stop some soldiers from posting handbills. Sears captured some of the soldiers and marched his captives towards the mayor's office, while the rest of the British soldiers ran to the barracks to sound the alarm. A crowd of townsfolk arrived along with a score of soldiers. The soldiers were surrounded and badly outnumbered. Another squad of soldiers arrived and the officer gave the order "Soldiers, draw your bayonets and cut your way through them." More soldiers arrived and a group of officers arrived to disperse the soldiers before the situation got totally out of hand. Several of the soldiers were badly bruised and one a had a serious wound. Some of the townsfolk were wounded and one had been fatally stabbed.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Battle Of Golden Hill'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://battle_of_golden_hill.totallyexplained.com">Battle of Golden Hill Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
