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Hello, and thank you for joining the American Revolution. Today episode 98

voting for independence. Over the spring and early summer of 1776 momentum grew for independence.

Britain and the colonies had been at war for nearly a year by then.

The colonies had done pretty well militarily.

Colonists had inflicted serious British casualties during the raid on Concord

and again at Bunker Hill. Further, they had forced the regulars to evacuate Boston and were, for the moment, pretty much in control of the 13 colonies.

Sure, the British took back most of Canada in May and June, but overall the colonists were looking pretty good.

Many people credit Thomas Paine's common sense for helping to move the population in favor of independence.

Now certainly Payne and other pamphleteers had an influence.

But when someone asked John Adams decades later,

who he thought was most instrumental in furthering the independence movement, he had an interesting answer. King George III.

The King announced at the opening of Parliament in the fall of 1775 that there would be no compromise

and that he supported the use of military force to compel obedience.

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