Was a woman the informant who helped launch the American Revolution?
Thomas Gage struck words and added notes in the margins, pressing his quill hard in some spots on the most consequential letter he would ever write. The British general finished his final draft and on April 18, 1775, dispatched the order launching the Concord Expedition.
It shall be done 'with the utmost Expedition and secrecy,' Gage wrote, of his army's plans to hobble the patriot militia by seizing their munitions and supplies in Concord.
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