History of the United States I / Unit 6 USH1 0751 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Gage in Boston
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The idea
General Thomas Gage arrived in Boston in May seventeen seventy-four as royal governor with several regiments, and stationed thirty-five hundred troops in the town.
In practice
Periodic raids ordered on towns where guns and gunpowder were stockpiled.
Where people slip
The strategy was to impose law and order by seizing the means of resistance.
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