Quartering Act Tightened: Britain Doubles Down on Colonial Control
Colonists weren't furious about soldiers sleeping in their beds. They were furious about paying for it. The 1774 Quartering Act forced colonial assemblies to fund British troops housed in barns, warehouses, and empty buildings across their towns — soldiers who were there specifically to control them. New York had already fought this battle in 1766. Lost. Now it was everywhere. And what looked like a logistics bill read, to colonists, like an occupation order. They weren't wrong.
June 2, 1774
252 years ago
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