American colonists used boycotts to protest British rule and avoid the high taxes the King required. After Britain began taxing stamps and paper, colonists clashed with British tax collectors and authorities, eventually leading to the American Revolution.
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The use of privateers by the Americans was the most effective action against British shipping. ..
Revere and Dawes alerted the colonists of the British troops, thus allowing them to be ready with troops of their own when the British came.
One of the most famous was Benjamin Franklins son, William Franklin, who was the last Loyalist Governor of New Jersey. The term Tory was used to describe those who remained loyal to the British Crown. Since early in the eighteenth century, Tory had described those upholding the right of the Kings over parliament. During the revolution, particularly after the Declaration of Independence in 1776 this use was extended to cover anyone who remained loyal to the British Crown.
They ambushed the retreating British forces and fought covering themselves in the woods and behind stone walls using a tactic like a guerrilla warfare.
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