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Britain and General Gage sent troops to Lexington and Concord to confiscate colonial military supplies and arrest revolutionary leaders, including Samuel Adams and John Hancock. This military action was aimed at suppressing the growing resistance against British authority in the American colonies. The movement of troops ultimately sparked the first battles of the American Revolutionary War, as colonial militias confronted the British forces.

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