PATRICK HENRY, THE ORATOR OF THE REVOLUTION
PATRICK HENRY
After the painting by Thomas Sully, owned by William Wirt Henry, the orator's grandson, Richmond, Virginia
Why the king wished to tax America
80. The Stamp Act. The surrender of Quebec and the fall of New France caused great rejoicing among the thirteen colonies. But the long, hard war had left both England and her colonies deeply in debt. King George III, however, thinking only of England's debt, decided that England ought to tax the colonies to pay for an army which he wished to keep in America.
PATRICK HENRY SPEAKING IN THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES
From an engraving after the original painting by Rothermal