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Hello. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

Today, episode 46, powder alarm.

So last week I discussed General Gage's early attempts to enforce the coercive acts and

cow the colonists into submission following the Boston Tea Party. He quickly learned that the rebellious leaders were not ready to roll over

and that the people were most certainly not ready to tolerate the new government.

The free people of New England were heavily armed and not afraid to use

their weapons against anyone they saw as threatening their liberties.

Tens of thousands of armed colonists who were ready to confront Liberties. regulars that Gage had under his command.

He sent increasingly frantic letters to London indicating that he needed a much, much larger

army by Spring if he was going to be able to gain control of the colony again.

In the meantime, Gage hunkered down in Boston and left the rest of the colony to run itself for the rest of the fall and winter.

Gage's decision to retreat into Boston and await reinforcements

was not a strategy that many of his junior officers supported. Colonel Leslie, soon to be General Leslie, still believed that a military show of strength

would force the locals to back down and submit.

Gage did not think the colonists were particularly capable, but just in terms of the very large numbers, they could overwhelm the regulars.

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