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Thomas Gage
1721–1787
A British general at the center of the American Revolution, he spent much of his career in North America and became one of the key military and political figures of the era. His name is closely tied to the tense final years before open war broke out between Britain and the colonies.
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Gage's Instructions
by Henry De Berniere, Thomas Gage
About the author
Born in 1718 or 1719 and dying in 1787, Thomas Gage was a British Army officer and colonial administrator whose long service in North America placed him at the heart of major eighteenth-century events. He served in the French and Indian War and later became commander-in-chief of British forces in North America.
Gage is best remembered for his role in the years leading up to the American Revolution. As royal governor of Massachusetts and a senior military leader, he was responsible for enforcing British policy during a period of rising unrest in the colonies.
His career became permanently linked with the outbreak of the war in 1775, when British troops under his command marched on Lexington and Concord. That moment made him one of the central British figures in the opening chapter of the Revolution.