Forgotten Cause: Gaspée, Somerset and the Beginnings of Provincial Resistance in Virginia
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2014-05
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The Ohio State University
Abstract
This thesis explores the implications of both the Gaspee Affair and the Somerset Decision from April of 1772 to March of 1773 in colonial Virginia and the ways in which these two key events forced Virginia to join the patriot cause.