HIST 1F96 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Royal Proclamation Of 1763, Tyrant, Intolerable Acts
Document Summary
Most colonists hoped that the acts of resistance would lead british to renounce. Intolerable acts as they had grown accustomed to. Patriots began to organize colonial congresses which rivaled existing assemblies headed by royal governors. Citizens organized extralegal militia units to drill and provision arms (minutemen: first shots: Spring of 1775, general thomas gage is ordered to arrest leading patriots in. April 19th, 1775, gage orders 700 british soldiers to march and seize illegal stockpile of guns and ammunition in concord, mass. Two patriot spies (paul revere and william dawes) ride through the night and warn residents of british troop movements. British troops engage 70 minutemen in lexington, mass. (8 minutemen killed first casualties of revolution) Patriots engage british troops who arrive in concord and exchange gunfire. British troops attacked with a small guerilla style patriot on retreat to boston (273 killed by the time they reached boston)
