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July 22, 1775: Lord North’s Motion

July 22, 1775: Lord North’s Motion

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July 22, 20251m 59s

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Show Notes

Cover art for July 22, 1775: portrait of Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford by Nathaniel Dance, 1773.

Lord North gets kind of a bad rap for being the Prime Minister who “lost the colonies.” But the fact is, he mostly understood their concerns and was sympathetic to them. However, Parliament was itching for a fight and not making life easy for anyone involved.

Lord North put forth a proposal to the Colonies that, to be honest, didn’t offer a lot of change from the status quo. But once again, the slowness with which messages moved from one place in the world to another doomed its delivery to a date after the shooting started, and Congress deemed it as not worthy of serious consideration.

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