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"The only viable substitute for tea was coffee, and it is no mere coincidence that between 1770 and the 1790s per capita coffee consumption in the United States increased more than sevenfold. Although it too was imported, coffee did not carry the same social or political stigma as tea. Americans started brewing beans instead of leaves during the Revolution and never looked back." p. 17

I started to skip through a bunch of the book, thinking it was an introduction better left read at the end, until I eventually realized the truth. :/

Treaty of Falaise - Henry II kept troops stationed in southern Scotland castles at the Scottish king's expense since they would not stop trying to take land from England. Richard the Lionheart ended this shortly after by essentially selling Scotland back to its king.