British Occupation of Boston
- When
- 1768 (Romney arrived May; regiments disembarked October and November)
- Where
- Boston Harbor and Boston
The circular letter prompted the occupation of Boston by British troops. HMS Romney arrived in Boston Harbor in May 1768, and regiments disembarked in October and November 1768.
The circular letter prompted the occupation of Boston by British troops. HMS Romney, a fifty-gun warship, arrived in Boston Harbor in May 1768. Two regiments disembarked in October 1768, followed by two more in November. The supplied passages date these arrivals and disembarkations individually and do not state a continuous occupation period ending in November 1768. Tensions between the occupational troops and local colonists eventually resulted in the killing of five Bostonians in the Boston Massacre of March 1770.
Sources
- Samuel Adams Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-27
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