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Cities and Towns

This chapter enters the cities and towns where British soldiers quartered and asks how the presence of the army affected urban locales. It posits that before 1768, soldiers and civilians learned to live together in the American colonies through the careful division of urban places and the joint police efforts of civilian and military officials; however, the army dominated cities in Canada and Florida. The sharing of urban spaces ended with the garrisoning of Boston in 1768 as Bostonians refused to quarter troops. Disputes over quartering in Boston helped to discredit the Quartering Act throughout the colonies, while the violence of the Battle of Golden Hill and the Boston Massacre helped usher in a new ideal of the city as a place without military geography.