Thomas Cage Biography and Timeline

Powder Alarm

Although it proved to be a false alarm, the Powder Alarm caused all concerned to proceed more carefully in the days ahead, and essentially provided a "dress rehearsal" for the Battle of Lexington and Concord seven months later.

Powder Alarm

British soldiers confiscate gunpowder and other military supplies in a surprise raid near Boston.

Powder Alarm

In response to the raid, amid rumors that blood had been shed, alarm spread through the countryside, and American Patriots sprang into action, fearing that war was at hand.

Intolerable Acts

Thomas Cage tries to enforce the Intolerable Acts, which are designed to remove power from the towns, Samuel Adams presses for County Conventions to strengthen the revolutionary resistance

Role range: 1775-1783

Intolerable Acts

Gage tries to seat his own court in Worcester, but the townspeople blocked the court from sitting, 2000 militiamen march to intimidate the judges and get them to leave, 1st time the militia is used to block the King.

Role range: 1775-1783

Intolerable Acts

Worcester comes up with a new militia plan in their County Convention, the Convention requires that all militia officers resign, Officers are then elected by their regiments & in turn.

Role range: 1775-1783

Intolerable Acts

the officers then appoint 1/3 of their militia regiment as Minutemen.

Role range: 1775-1783

Minutemen

Worcester comes up with a new militia plan in their County Convention, the Convention requires that all militia officers resign, Officers are then elected by their regiments & in turn, the officers then appoint 1/3 of their militia regiment as Minutemen. Other counties follow Worcesters lead, electing new militia officers and appointing Minutemen

Role range: 1775-1783

Powder Alarm

The Powder Alarm is a massive popular reaction to a raid by British soldiers under the command of General Thomas Gage, royal governor of Massachusetts, soon before the American Revolutionary War

Siege of Concord

Gage decides to send a 800-man force on a march to Concord to seize arms, gunpowder, cannons, and provisions from the provincials

Role range: 1775-1783

Minutemen

Gage underestimates the Minutemen, Paul Revere spreads the news that "the regulars are coming," but as captured before completing his mission when the British march towards the arsenal in Lexington and Concord to collect the patriots weapons

Role range: 1775-1783

Siege of Concord

Gage underestimates the Minutemen, Paul Revere spreads the news that "the regulars are coming," but as captured before completing his mission when the British march towards the arsenal in Lexington and Concord to collect the patriots weapons

Role range: 1775-1783

Siege of Lexington

Gage underestimates the Minutemen, Paul Revere spreads the news that "the regulars are coming," but as captured before completing his mission when the British march towards the arsenal in Lexington and Concord to collect the patriots weapons

Role range: 1775-1783

Minutemen

The British are turned back from Concord by the Minutemen

Role range: 1775-1783

Siege of Concord

The British are turned back from Concord by the Minutemen

Role range: 1775-1783