On this day, the Boston Massacre lights the fuse of revolution
On March 5, 1770, British troopers fired upon a gaggle of rowdy colonists, killing 5 and wounding others. “On that ...
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Cambodia convicts land rights activists for inciting a peasant revolution
On Monday, a courtroom in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, convicted 4 land rights activists of frightening a “peasant revolution”. The activists ...
How Thomas Paine’s other pamphlet saved the Revolution
The publication of Thomas Paine’s Widespread Sense brought on a sensation in early 1776 because it defined the necessity for ...