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Tavern Talk : HOW THE REVOLUTION ALMOST BEGAN IN SOMERVILLE: THE POWDER ALARM 1774

  • Aeronaut Brewery 14 Tyler Street Somerville, Massachusetts, 02143 United States (map)

By the summer of 1774, Massachusetts was slipping out of British control. Hoping to reverse the trend, General Gage sent a small force up the Mystic River to seize the province’s remaining gunpowder. That mission nearly sparked the American Revolution—eight months before the march to Lexington.

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