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 | | On November 1, 1765, despite a general call for repeal in the colonies, the Stamp Act was enacted. |
 | | Passed without debate by Parliament in March 1765, the Stamp Act was designed to force colonists to use special stamped paper in the printing of newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs, and playing cards, and to have a stamp embossed on all commercial and legal papers. |
 | | The palmetto logs and sand from which the fort was primarily constructed absorbed most of the British shot, while the fort's defenders managed to inflict disproportionate punishment to the British warships, one of which, the frigate Actaeon, ran hard aground and had to be abandoned and blown up by her crew. |
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