Samuel Adams sparked the flame of the American Revolution
by Steve Donoghue
Dec 15, 2022
3 minutes
Back in 1765, the Boston Gazette ran a section of a scene from Shakespeare’s “Henry VIII” in which King Henry is shocked to learn about a heavy new tax his subjects are struggling to pay. “Why, we take/From every tree lop, bark, and part o’ th’ timber,/And though we leave it with a root, thus hacked,/The air will drink the sap.” The Gazette included a note pointing out that when it came to crippling taxes, King Henry was far outdone by King
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