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General Thomas Gage. After the Boston Tea Party in 1773, the British government suspended all self-government there and put the area under the control of the British army with General Gage as governor. Gage as general learned that the colonists were gathering weapons in Concord in case of a revolution, and he sent British troops to capture them. When the troops encountered the colonial militias, the first battles of the Revolution took place, the Battles of Lexington and Concord. When the colonists issued the Declaration of indepencence and the Revolutionary War began, Gage was the general in charge of all British trrops in the colonies.

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