On This Day 250 Years Ago
April 4, 1775
On a misty day at Mount Vernon, Washington hosts several prominent colonial figures for dinner. In Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, commander-in-chief of British forces in North America, grows increasingly concerned about the colonial militias' stockpiling of arms and munitions. He receives intelligence about caches of weapons stored in Concord and begins planning to seize them.
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