Tax on Tea

He said, "I had used all the smooth words I could muster, and I grew tired of meekness when I saw it without effect.

Of late, therefore, I have been saucy." Two months earlier, on September eleventh, seventeen seventy-three, this is just months after the passage of the Tax on Tea, that sauciness took the form of an anonymous and brilliant essay published in a London paper.

It was originally titled Rules By Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One.

He took the worst abuses inflicted on the American colonies and repackaged them as helpful tips, basically for the British government to be able to take on and follow to convince the people in the colonies to absolutely hate that government, resulting in the empire being chopped down to size through secession.