viernes, 18 de febrero de 2011

Thomas Gage



Thomas Gage, he was born in 1721 and died in England, 2 April of 1787 In 1754, T.Gage was sent to North America to fight in the French And Indian War. He was named the military governor of Montréal in 1760 and he was promoted to major general a year after. He became the commander of British soldiers in North America. He was an aggressive man and this helped against the colonists and it helped to the American Revolution. He married, 8 December 1758 with Margaret Kemble, her dad was president of the council of New Jersey. Gage fought in the Battle of the Bunker Hill, it was his first major battle of the American Revolution.

Thomas Gage enforced the Intolerable Acts by closing the Boston Port and suspended the Representative government in the colonies.

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