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July and August of 1774, General Gage set up office in the Page House and lived at the Danvers <strong><a class=\"liinternal\" href=\"https:\/\/historicsites.dcpreservation.org\/items\/show\/335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hooper-Collins House<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Lindens), now in Washington, DC. Hoping to find a more receptive audience Salem and Danvers. That was not to be.<\/p>\n<p>We will discuss Gage\u2019s move back to Boston, the outbreak of war, and the British evacuation from Boston.<\/p>\n<p><em>Paul O\u2019Shaughnessy is a longtime reenactor of British soldiers and officers from the opening years of the American Revolution.\u00a0 He recently portrayed General Thomas Gage, newly appointed Governor of Massachusetts, in a re-creation of Gage\u2019s arrival in Salem in June 1774.\u00a0 He is also a Board member of the Lexington Historical Society and the Friends of Minute Man National Park and an officer in His Majesty\u2019s Tenth Regiment of Foot, a re-created British infantry regiment of 1775.\u00a0The Tenth Foot is based in Lexington, MA.\u00a0 See their website at\u00a0<strong><a class=\"liinternal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redcoat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.redcoat.org<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This conversational presentation with General Thomas Gage, the last Royal Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony shares his perspective of the War for Independence after leaving Danvers in 1774 and Boston&#8230;","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1994,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-1993","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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