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George III draws a line down the Appalachians and forbids the colonies to cross it

Land west of the mountains is reserved for Indigenous nations; Crown officials alone may buy it.

Nine months after the Treaty of Paris handed Britain a continent's worth of former French territory, King George III moved to control who could settle it. On October 7, 1763, he issued a royal proclamation drawing a boundary along the Appalachian watershed and forbidding colonists from settling, or buying land, west of it. Only the Crown, meeting Indigenous nations directly, could now purchase western land. Colonial speculators who had already staked claims there, including George Washington, demanded the Crown reverse course…

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More from October 7

American bombs fall on Afghanistan; Bush says "time is running out"

Air strikes hit Taliban defenses and al-Qaeda camps as U.S. special forces move in to back the Northern Alliance.

Ninety-eight American prisoners are shot on a Wake Island beach

The civilian contractors had survived twenty-two months of occupation; their captors gave no warning before the killing.

A Navy memo floats a plan: push Japan into firing the first shot

Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum sends his superiors eight ways to pressure Tokyo, and admits Washington isn't ready to declare war without one.

The only British officer on the field is dead within the hour, and his men have nowhere left to run.

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Mowat's ships reduce Falmouth to ash after the town refuses to swear allegiance

Nine hours and 3,000 rounds later, more than 400 buildings are gone and winter is six weeks away.

Congress bans British trade; twelve colonies sign the Continental Association

Tea goes first, then nearly everything else Britain ships across the Atlantic.

The Congress breaks up; the colonies now have a boycott and a date to reconvene

Fifty-six delegates close seven weeks at Carpenters' Hall with a trade embargo, a petition to the king, and the promise to meet again come spring.

William Penn steps ashore at Philadelphia, a city that exists only on paper

He had landed at New Castle days earlier; now he comes to the ground he has already named for brotherly love.

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