{"id":69,"date":"2010-07-16T19:37:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T19:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infj.net\/smith\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2010-08-23T04:58:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T04:58:39","slug":"general-thomas-gage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/?page_id=69","title":{"rendered":"General Thomas Gage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thomas Gage<\/strong> was the second son of the Viscount Gage. He was born in Firle, England in 1719 and died April 2, 1787.\u00a0 He entered the military in 1740 as an Aide de Camp to Lord Albemarle.<\/p>\n

With Albemarle,\u00a0 Gage saw action in two of histories more famous engagements; the Battle of Fontenoy and Culloden.\u00a0 During this time he distinguished himself as an able leader.<\/p>\n

In 1755 Gage\u00a0was assigned to America.\u00a0 His unit was part of Braddock\u2019s ill fated expedition to Fort Duquesne.\u00a0\u00a0 Gage was seen as exhibiting patience and tact in diplomacy with the Native Americans over the issues of trade, communication and western boundaries which enabled\u00a0him to move up the ladder of command.<\/p>\n

On November 16, 1764 Gage was appointed Commander in Chief of all of America and head quartered in\u00a0 Albany New York.\u00a0 In this role he\u00a0was almost immediately confronted with Pontiac\u2019s Rebellion. As a result of Governor Penn\u2019s inadequate response to the renewed hostilities between settlers and Native Americans on the frontier,\u00a0Gage\u00a0was faced with the Paxton Boys (1763) and\u00a0Smith’s Rebellion in\u00a01765. Smith\u2019s Rebellion\u00a0was the first armed resistance to British Military rule in America which led the British to abandon their garrisons in western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Gage’s\u00a0inability to accurately understand America\u2019s rising desire for independence marked the beginning of\u00a0his down fall. \u00a0His mistaken assessments began almost immediately with his appointment as Royal Governor of Massachusetts.\u00a0 In response to the Boston Tea Party he helped shape Parliaments hard line approach seen in the Intolerable Acts which closed the port of Boston until the lost tea was paid for.\u00a0 Instead of quelling American resentment and anger this act further inflamed it.<\/p>\n

It\u00a0was Gage who issued orders that included quartering troops in private homes.\u00a0 On April 18-19,\u00a0 1775 he ordered a force to Lexington and Concord to destroy the colonists military stores\u00a0which ignited\u00a0the American Revolution.\u00a0 Gage\u2019s last act in America\u00a0was to order the June 17, 1775 attack known as the Battle of Bunker Hill.\u00a0 Because of criticism over heavy casualties Gage returned to England in October 1775. \u00a0He\u00a0was replaced by William Howe.<\/p>\n

His critics continued to attack him for the defeat at Bunker Hill.\u00a0 Gage died\u00a0at his home at Portland Place on April 2, 1787.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Gage<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/americanrevwar.homestead.com\/files\/gage.htm<\/a><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.u-s-history.com\/pages\/h1292.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Thomas Gage was the second son of the Viscount Gage. He was born in Firle, England in 1719 and died April 2, 1787.\u00a0 He entered the military in 1740 as an Aide de Camp to Lord Albemarle. With Albemarle,\u00a0 Gage … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/983"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}