One very objectionable tax to the Americans was a stamp duty on newspapers.

Another was a tax on tea.

They urged that it was unfair for the British government to tax them without they were allowed to send members to Parliament to look after their interests; but remonstrance only tended to make the British government more determined; and so at last they came to what somebody has called gunpowder law, that is to say, fighting.
I need not enter on the events of the war.

It ended in the triumph of the American settlers, and in the declaration of American independence and the formation of the United States.

The foremost man, both as a statesman and a soldier, in the conduct of the war, on the part of the Americans, was George Washington.