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Gage’s report on colonies’ defiance
General Thomas Gage reported to England that colonies were “bidding defiance to the mother country.”
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Battle of Bunker Hill
British forces led by General Thomas Gage attacked patriots on Breed’s Hill overlooking the sea approach to Boston Harbor.
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Henry Clinton
Henry Clinton (1730–1795) was the commander in chief of the British army from 1778 to 1782. Clinton was sent to the colonies in 1775 to serve under General Thomas Gage. When Gage was replaced by William Howe, Clinton assumed second in command. Clinton was responsible for the British success at Long Island in 1776 that nearly trapped Washington’s army. After Howe resigned in 1778, Clinton became commander in chief. In 1780, Clinton succeeded in capturing Charleston, but that victory was soon overshadowed by Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown...
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Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage (ca. 1719–1787) was the commander in chief of the British army (1763–1774) and military governor of Massachusetts (1774–1775). He helped shape the British colonial policies that led to the American Revolution. Early in his command, Gage successfully managed colonial matters with little issue. As colonial resistance to British policies grew in the early 1770s, however, Gage began to lose control of the colonies. As...
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Thomas Hutchinson
