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Gage had been appointed the lockdown Governor of Boston and Massachusetts by the Intolerable Acts and on the night of April the 18th ordered out a large unit of British Redcoats to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington and then to find, take and/or destroy the arms and ammunitions that the Patriots were hiding in Concord.
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