Like most of Revere’s political prints, A View of Part of the Town of Boston was created primarily as political propaganda, but today the print is an important historical document of one of the seminal events leading up to the American Revolution. Revere’s print records the arrival of British troops in Boston in the fall of 1768. The troops had been rushed to the city to quell political disturbances that had erupted following the enactment of the Townshend Acts, a new set of duties imposed upon the American colonies by Parliament in the summer of 1767.
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