Want this question answered?
NovaNet Answer: to arrest colonial leaders in hiding there.
NovaNet Answer: to arrest colonial leaders in hiding there.
to arrest colonial leaders in hiding there.#Mickey012
NovaNet Answer: to arrest colonial leaders in hiding there.
to arrest colonial leaders in hiding there.#Mickey012
john Hancock and Samuel Adams
During the American Revolutionary Period, actions by both the American Patriots and the British authorities contributed to the confrontations that occurred at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. On the British side, the aggressive march into the Massachusetts countryside, with the goal of searching for and destroying hidden arms along with orders to arrest key revolutionary leaders, was a primary cause of the confrontations. On the Patriot side, defiant unwillingness to stand aside or watch passively as the British aggression occurred, not to overlook their prior storing of arms in countryside hiding-places, was yet another primary cause of the 'shot heard around the world' that was fired that day.
In April of 1775, the British military governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, issued non-written orders to British troops stationed in Boston to march in force to the town of Concord and arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock, among others. These men were known to be leaders of the growing rebellion movement in the Colonies and were rumored to be hiding out in the area of Concord. Written orders specified uncovering and destroying arms also rumored to be hidden in Concord.
the colonists were hiding guns and gun powder in peoples homes and anywhere they could find a place to keep it hidden :)
Adams was a propagandist against British policy throughout revolutionary period. Along with John Hancock, Adams formed the Sons of Liberty. He also took the lead in forming colonial Committees of Correspondence to foster inter-colonial communication. By the spring of 1775, Adams joined Hancock in hiding in Lexington, Massachusetts, where Paul Revere found both men on the night of April 18 to tell them and the townspeople that the British troops were coming the next day to seize colonial gunpowder stores
There is not a literal snake, but one of the concentration camp leaders is nicknamed "the snake".
The British. Although the colonists had some success harassing the British column from hiding after the Battle, they were no match for the British Army's numbers, experience, and discipline.