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Quartering Act of 1765

Thomas Gage, the commander in Chief of British North American forces, and other British officers, who had fought in the French and Indian War had found it difficult to get colonial assemblies to pay for quartering and provisioning of troops on the march and he asked Parliament to do something about it. The result was the Quartering Act of 1765 which went far beyond what he had requested. Most of the colonies had provided provisions during war time, but the issue was disputed in peacetime. The colonies considered this a case of taxation without representation since the colonies had not requested the troops. Sir Thomas Gage (1719 – April 2, 1787) was a British general and commander in chief of the North American forces from 1763 to 1775 during the early days of the American Revolution. ... Combatants France First Nations allies: Algonquin Lenape Wyandot Ojibwa Ottawa Shawnee Great Britain American Colonies Iroquois Confederacy Strength 3,900 regulars 7,900 militia 2,200 natives (1759) 50,000 regulars and militia (1759) Casualties 3,000 killed, wounded or captured 10,040 killed, wounded or captured The French and... No taxation without representation was a rallying cry for advocates of American independence from Great Britain in the eighteenth century. ...

This first Act (citation 5 Geo. III c. 33) occurred on 15 May 1765, and provided that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses, as by the Mutiny Act of 1765, but if its soldiers outnumbered the housing available, would quarter them "in inns, livery stables, ale houses, victuallinghouses, and the houses of sellers of wine and houses of persons selling of rum, brandy, strong water, cider or metheglin", and if numbers required in "uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings"... "upon neglect or refusal of such governor and council in any province", required any inhabitants (or in their absence, public officials) to provide them with food and alcohol, and providing for "fire, candles, vinegar, salt, bedding, and utensils" for the soldiers "without paying any thing for the same". is the 135th day of the year (136th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1765 (MDCCLXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... An act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. ... For other uses, see Wine (disambiguation). ... This article is about the beverage. ... For other uses, see Brandy (disambiguation). ... Cider in a pint glass Cider (or cyder) is an alcoholic beverage made primarily from the juices of specially grown varieties of apples. ... Mead Mead is a fermented alcoholic beverage made of honey, water, and yeast. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Vinegar is sometimes infused with spices or herbs—as here, with oregano. ... For other uses, see Salt (disambiguation). ...

When 1,500 British troops arrived at New York City in 1766 the New York Assembly refused to comply with the Quartering Act and failed to supply billeting for the troops. The troops had to remain on their ships. For failure to comply with the Quartering Act, Parliament suspended New York's Governor and legislature from 1767 to 1769. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The English parliament in front of the King, c. ...

Quartering Act of 1774

A second Quartering Act was passed on June 2, 1774, as part of a group of laws that colonists called the Intolerable Acts. The acts were designed to restore imperial control over the American colonies. While serveral of the acts dealt specifically with the Province of Massachusetts Bay, the new Quartering Act applied to all of the colonies. is the 153rd day of the year (154th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Chesma Column in Tsarskoe Selo, commemorating the end of the Russo-Turkish War. ... This British cartoon, depicting the Intolerable Acts as an assault upon a Native American woman (a symbol of the American colonies), was copied and distributed by Paul Revere throughout the colonies. ... A map of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. ...

In the previous act, the colonies had been required to provide housing for soldiers, but colonial legislatures had been uncooperative in doing so. The new Quartering Act allowed a governor to house soldiers in other buildings if suitable quarters were not provided. While many sources claim that the 1774 act allowed troops to be billeted in occupied private homes, historian David Ammerman argued that this is a myth, and that the act only permitted troops to be quartered in unoccupied buildings. He writes, "It did not, as generations of American school children were taught, permit the housing of troops in private homes."^[1] According to Ammerman, although many colonists found the Quartering Act objectionable, it generated the least protest of the Intolerable Acts.

Modern relevance

• Both Acts led directly to the Third Amendment to the United States Constitution, which expressly prohibited the military from peacetime quartering of troops without consent of the owner of the house. A product of their times, the relevance of the Acts and the Third Amendment has greatly declined since the era of the American Revolution, having been the subject of one case in 200+ years (Engblom v. Carey).

• The Quartering Act was also one of the reasons for the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which authorized a militia. Standing armies were mistrusted and considered to have been tools for oppression.

• The Quartering Act is indirectly referred to in the New York State Constitution: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures."

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Notes

1. ^ David Ammerman, "The Tea Crisis and its Consequences, through 1775", in Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole, eds., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1999), p. 20.

References

• Ketchum, Richard, Divided Loyalties, How the American Revolution Came to New York, 2002, ISBN 0-8050-6120-7

External links

• Text of the Act of 1765
• Text of the Act of 1774