On what occasion did Henry deliver his Speech in the Virginia Convention?

A. many years before the American Revolution began, when tensions first began between the colonies and the British
B. on the eve of the American Revolution, when the colonists in the north had already begun openly resisting the British
C. at the midpoint of the American Revolution, when the British were threatening to extend the battle into the southern colonies
D. near the end of the American Revolution, when the colonists in the north were in need of reinforcements and supplies from Virginia