Important in the context of the legality of the American War for Independence was the influence of the treatise entitled, Vindiciae Contra Tyrranos.  It was first published in France in 1579 and translated into English in 1689. The English title is A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants.  It ...Read More...

“First blood” in the American War for Independence was 16 May 1771, on the Alamance, a small stream in North Carolina.  The colonists were resisting British tyranny in the form of unjust taxation. Those involved in the struggle for Independence which we call the American Revolution ...Read More...