Powder Alarm
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title:
Powder Alarm
text:
The Massachusetts Powder Alarm was a major popular reaction to the removal of gunpowder from a magazine near Boston by British soldiers under orders from General Thomas Gage, royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, on September 1, 1774. In response to this action, amid rumors that blood had been shed, alarm spread through the countryside to Connecticut and beyond, and American Patriots sprang into action, fearing that war was at hand. Thousands of militiamen began streaming toward B
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1774 event leading up to the Revolutionary War
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_Alarm
date created:
2005-05-09T08:23:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T13:48:44Z
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