Gen. Gage travels to Boston to replace Hutchinson as the new Governor of Massachusetts. The tough talking Gage had assured officials in London he could use firmness to enforce colonial compliance with the Coercive Acts, most of which were still under debate when he left London. Gage soon discovers that the threat of force only goads the heavily armed colonsits to threaten force of their own. Gage soon finds himself behind barricades in Boston, having lost control of the rest of the colony. The Port of Boston is closed, but other changes mandated by London cannot be enforced outside of Boston.
Over the summer and fall of 1774, Massachusetts and the other colonies only hear more news of intolerable acts passed in London. Calls for cutting off all trade with England entirely leads to the call for a Continental Congress to discuss colonial options in developing a united response.
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ARP203 St Lucia and Dominica
ARP202 Cherry Valley Massacre
ARP201 Treason in Philadelphia
AR-SP09 Valcour, with Jack Kelly
ARP200 Culper Spy Ring
ARP199 Little Egg Harbor & Pulaski's Legion
ARP198 Raid on Old Tappan
ARP197 Cobleskill & German Flatts
ARP196 Rhode Island Campaign
ARP195 Courts Martial of Lee St Clair and Schuyler
ARP194 Battle of Ushant
ARP193 Silas Deane Hearings
AR-SP08 David Stewart: George Washington
ARP192 The Wyoming Valley Massacre
ARP191 Alligator Bridge
ARP190 French Arrive in America
ARP189 Battle of Monmouth
AR-SP07 Larry Kidder - Revolutionary Princeton
ARP188 Pursuit Across New Jersey
ARP187 Evacuation of Philadelphia
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