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A gage was formerly a quart pot. Later the term was used to describe a pipe or a pipe measure of tobacco.
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Green Gage is a variety of plum, introduced to Britain from France by a person named Gage. It is large, of a green or yellowish colour, and has a juicy, greenish pulp of exquisite flavour.
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Henry T Gage was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of California from 1899 until 1903.
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Jack R Gage was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Wyoming from 1961 until 1963.
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Thomas Gage was an English colonial governor. He was born in 1721 and died in 1787. He went to America in 1754 in command of a regiment accompanying Braddock's expedition. He was appointed Governor of Montreal in 1760, and from 1763 to 1772 was commander-in-chief in America. In 1774 he was appointed Governor of Massachusetts, and attempted to subdue the antagonism of the colonists to English rule. In 1775 he sent troops to destroy stores collected at Concord, and this led to the Battle of Lexington. The colonists refused to recognize Gage as Governor, and soon after the Battle of Bunker Hill he resigned his commission.
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Sir William Howe was a British soldier. He was born in 1729 and died in 1814. He served under General Wolfe at Quebec in 1759. In 1775 he succeeded General Gage as commander-in-chief of the British forces in America. He commanded the British troops at Bunker Hill. In conjunction with his brother, Richard, he defeated the colonial armies at Long Island and at White Plains in 1776, and captured Fort Washington and Fort Lee. He defeated George Washington at Brandywine in 1777, and entered Philadelphia. After repulsing the American attack at Germantown he went into winter quarters in Philadelphia, and was accused of spending his time in the pursuit of pleasure. He was removed from command in 1778, and superseded by Sir Henry Clinton. He was a well-educated general and a favourite with his officers, but unsuccessful in strategy and incapable of managing a large army. He was described by General Henry Lee as 'the most indolent of mortals, who never took pains to examine the merits or demerits of a cause in which he was engaged.'
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Kelly Preston (real name Kelly Kamalelehua Palzis) is an American actress and former model. She was born in 1962 at Honolulu, Hawaii. Kelly Preston was 'discovered' by a fashion photographer when she was sixteen and became a model. She auditioned for the starring role in the 1980 film 'The Blue Lagoon' but was rejecetd in gavour of Brooke Shields. In 1986 she married Kevin Gage, getting divorced two years later and marrying John Travolta in 1991 after which she decided to become a mother and housewife first, and an actress second.
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The American War Of Independence (or American Revolution as it is also known) was an inevitable conflict by which the thirteen British colonies in America separated themselves, or rather were separated by the French Army and navy, from Great Britain.
The conflict was the result of a number of issues, not least of which was an increasing population in the colonies would inevitably lead to a desire for independence, a desire which became stronger after the eviction of the French in 1763. Around this time the government of George III under Grenville, resolved to enforce more strictly the Navigation Act and other laws restricting American trade in the interest of England, and this also contributed to resentment among the colonists.
The war started in April 1775 when Gage, the British commander at Boston, encountered resistance at Lexington and Concord, and a Declaration of Independence was issued on the 4th of July 1776 which described the colonies as states and the country as the republic of the United States of America.
The colonists were supported by France who was at the time at war against England, and a number of private individuals, mainly investors such as Pierre Beaumarchais who both sought to damage England and sought rewards for lending money to the colonists, but were cheated by them following independence and the loans never repaid. Eventually the English were forced to surrender in America to a combined French-American army and the French naval fleet, and a peace treaty was signed in Paris in 1783.
It is a common misconception that the American War of Independence was somehow a heroic struggle by the oppressed colonists against the British government. In reality, no colony had an overwhelming majority in favour of revolution. Indeed in some colonies the majority was unfavourable. The loyalists in New England and the Middle States comprised a large part of the most respectable and eminent men and a large number of them were patriotic in their resistance to the efforts to overturn the existing government. As the Revolution progressed they were treated. with increasing harshness.
Exasperation against the American loyalists was so great that at the end of the American War of Independence most of them felt obliged to go into exile when the British troops withdrew. Thousands from the North went to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada. From the South many went to the Bahamas and West Indies.
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The Battle of Lexington, Massachusetts occurred on April the 19th, 1775 during the American War of Independence. On the night of April the18th, 1775, 8000 British regulars were secretly despatched from Boston to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock at Lexington, and to seize the military stores collected at Concord. News of their approach was spread through the intervening towns by Paul Revere, and at daybreak, when the British arrived at Lexington, they found fifty minute-men drawn up on the village green.
The advance guard, under Major Pitcairn, fired upon them, but they held their ground until the main body of the British, under Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, appeared. They then gave way, and the regulars pushed forward to Concord. Here they were unable to discover any military stores, and while they were committing some depredations affairs took a sudden turn. 200 regulars, who guarded Concord bridge, were routed by some 400 minute-men who had hastily collected from neighbouring towns. The position of the British thus became perilous. About noon they started for Boston, subjected to a galling fire from all sides.
Exhausted by their march of eighteen miles and their fast of fourteen hours, they fell into a disorderly flight, and were saved only by the timely assistance of Lord Percy, who came from Boston with 1200 reinforcements and two cannon. Seven miles from Boston their passage was for a while disputed by a force of militia. The whole countryside was out against them; once more their retreat became a rout, and at sunset they entered Charlestown under the welcome protection of the fleet, on the full run, just in time to avoid an encounter with Colonel Pickering and 700 Essex militia.
According to insurgent sources, the loss of the British was 273 and that of the insurgents ninety-three. In the first place the battle showed that the insurgents could not be frightened into submission. It also showed the efficiency and promptness of the town militia. Twenty-three towns were represented among the wounded and slain, and by the end of the week 16,000 men were besieging Gage in Boston.
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The M706 (V-100 Commando) was an American multi-purpose four-wheeled armoured vehicle designed during the 1960s by Cadillac Gage. The M706 (as the US military designated it) was manned by a crew of three with room for two passengers and armed with two 7.62 mm machine-guns. A V-8 diesel engine provided a top speed of 89 kmh and a range of 645 km. In 1971 the M706 was replaced in service by the V-150.
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