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6:30 pm

Boston in the American Revolution: Occupation 1768

April 26, 2018 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02108 United States
Free

Part of the “Occupation” Series, marking the 250th anniversary of Boston’s 1768 occupation by British troops In 1768, British Parliament enacted a military solution to what was not yet a military problem by dispatching thousands of British troops to Boston. Many Bostonians feared standing armies and struggled with the presence of these armed men in […]

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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.