Among the many grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence, few are as often overlooked today as the complaint about quartering troops: "For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." ...

The Quartering Act expanded the power of royal governors to house troops wherever they wanted. Even King George III, though, ...

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On this day in 1765, Parliament approved the Quartering Act, which outlined the terms by which British soldiers would be furnished with free room and board in the American colonies.

That assumption was wrong, in part because the Quartering Act, like the Stamp Act, Sugar Act and the other “taxation” acts of the 1760s, was seen by the colonists as a threat to their rights.

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The Quartering Act of 1774 provided that colonists might have to house soldiers wherever necessary, including private houses. This mandate of quartering soldiers was one of the grievances provided ...