Record #373 (edit record; developers only)

Date: 1763

Event:

Peace with France gives back everything Pitt fought to obtain (Newfoundland fishing rights, Guadaloupe and Martininque [sugar trade], Dakar [gum trade]). John Wilkes is imprisoned in the Tower for his North Briton article; the judge Lord Camden rules against the government, thereby outlawing "general warrants," instruments of arbitrary imprisonment.

Notes: Plumb, J. H. England in the Eighteenth Century. Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books, 1963. 

Topics:

*France
*Colonialism
*Economics  

   

Record Created or Last Modified By:

Shawn Mummert

Date Last Modified:

6/22/1999


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