Waging a Revolutionary War
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844520.book.part.027

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Abstract

In April 1775, Governor Thomas Gage of Massachusetts, a general with contempt for the colonists’ complaints with British rule, ordered his troops to confiscate the Massachusetts militia’s ammunition in a town outside Boston named Concord. The colonists responded violently, firing on British troops near the town of Lexington, marching out to Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain and occupying it, and, later, exacting a heavy toll on a British force near Bunker Hill, also outside Boston.

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