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Hace 2 días · General Thomas Gage (1719–1787) served in the French and Indian War and was Commander-in-Chief of British forces in North America from 1763 to 1775. Representations should be made with candor, and matters stated exactly as they stand.
Hace 4 días · For a year a British army under Gen. Thomas Gage had occupied Boston. Pressed by the ministry in London to quell rebellion by arresting the rabblerousers Samuel Adams and John Hancock, Gage chose instead to take what he thought was the less inflammatory step of confiscating the patriots' arms supply in Concord.
Hace 3 días · Borough M.P.s in the 18th century included Nicholas Lechmere (1675–1727), attorney general and afterwards Lord Lechmere, John Martin, the first of eight members of his family to represent the borough between 1741 and 1885, and Thomas, Viscount Gage, who in 1753, as sitting member, tried to prevent an arrangement whereby election ...
Hace 1 día · In 1774 General Thomas Gage became the last royally appointed governor of Massachusetts. He was recalled to England after the Battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775, by which time the Massachusetts Provincial Congress exercised de facto control of Massachusetts territory outside British-occupied Boston .
Hace 2 días · It included land which belonged in 1647 to Benedict Hall and descended with his Highmeadow estate until 1726 when Thomas Gage, Viscount Gage, sold over 130 a. in Ruardean to John Hopkins.
It is the Form of Government, which gives the decisive Colour to the Manners of the People, more than any other Thing. Under a well regulated Commonwealth, the People must be wise virtuous and cannot be otherwise. Under a Monarchy they may be as vicious and foolish as they please, nay they cannot but be vicious and foolish.
Hace 3 días · Son of Sir Thomas Rowe (Lord Mayor 1568–9) and grandson of Sir John Gresham (Lord Mayor 1547–8), ancestor of the Marquesses of Downshire through the marriage of his great-great-granddaughter to the 1st Viscount Hillsborough.
