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a pro-American, anti-taxation speech in the House of Commons on February 6, 1765, by Irish-born MP Isaac Barré, a British veteran of the Seven Years' War. A precursor of the Sons of Liberty in Boston was the Loyal Nine, which burned effigies of Stamp Act commissioner Andrew Oliver in Boston on August 14, 1765. When he did not resign, the group escalated to burning down

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