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Twenty-four-year-old Englishman Nicholas Cresswell, the son of a landowner in Derbyshire, England, spent the years 1774 to 1777 conducting an extensive tour of the colonies during the initial stage of the American Revolution. Interacting with both colonial and indigenous Americans, Cresswell acquired a more thorough understanding of the complexity of the colonies than the average English tourist, which extended to his observations regarding the root causes of the rebellion that began in 1775.