Gunpowder in America

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The Battle of Bunker Hill, by Howard Pyle, 1897. Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In 1774 Liutenant General Thomas Gage was the most powerful man in America, and gunpowder was the focus of his urgent attention. Faced with radicals fomenting rebellion, the supreme military commander in North America and Royal Governor of Massachusetts followed the instincts of a…

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