One of the first aggressive actions taken by the British soldiers under General Thomas Gage in Massachusetts Bay Colony on September 1, 1774 which preceded the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Gage ordered the British soldiers to remove hundreds of barrels of gunpowder from Colonial powder houses (an act of gun control), thus alarming the countryside and raising the concern of patriots Joseph Warren, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock. It hasted the organization of a sophisticated alarm system that would be used during the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and caused further friction between the British and the provincials over control of ammunition. Read More…
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