Nixon appointed Henry Kissinger as special assistant for National Security Affairs and gave him the authority to use diplomacy to end the conflict.
Slaves were punished by whipping, shackling, hanging, beating, burning, mutilation, branding, and imprisonment. Punishment was often meted out in response to disobedience or perceived infractions, but sometimes abuse was performed to re-assert the dominance of the master (or overseer) over the slave.
News from England took months to hit the colonies, and vice versa. The king didn't even get the Declaration of Independence until a few months after it was already signed. Now apply that to every single piece of information that traversed between Britain and the Colonies.
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