English Navy Assembled Before the Lexington and Concord Land Battles.

Just before the battles of Lexington, the English were dispatching more generals to Boston to prepare a command structure for more troops to be sent to the colonies to quell the growing unrest.  By spring of 1775, the English had assembled off the coast of New England a fleet with more vessels and firepower than had ever been seen before in the colonies.  Within that fleet, Admiral Montage's flagship at the time of the 1772 Gaspee affair, the  Rose, was passed to the command of Capt. Wallace, as the Rose was then only a median size ship in the English fleet assembled  to defeat the oncoming insurgency.

See, Country News, York, March 28, 1775, reporting:

Gosport, March 8. Sailed out of Harbour, for Spithead, his Majesty's Sloop Scorpion., bound to Boston. Arrived in the Harbour a large Transport, to take on board the three Generals Baggage, &c. for Boston.

See the St. James's Chronicle, London, from Thursday, March 30, to Saturday, April 1, 1775, reporting:

By a Letter just received from Philadelphia, we have received the following correct

 List of the Squadron in North America, under the Command of Admiral Graves.

You can find these and other references in English newspapers, to the American Revolution, by using a website that has some English and Irish Newspapers  1713-1833.  The newspapers include papers published in London (London Gazette, 1713 and 1728; St. James' Chronicle, 1775; Whitehall, 1747), Suffolk (Ipswich Journal, 1811), Wiltshire (Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, 1833, Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 1782, 1819, 1827), Somerset (Bath Journal, 1773), Gloucester- shire (Bristol Journal, 1775), Ireland (Public Gazetteer, 1758, and Freeman's Journal, 1826)

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