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A large English Navy force assembled off the Boston coast before the Lexington and Concord land battles. The English ships had the firepower of more than 500 cannons.
Before the battles of Lexington and Concord, the English were dispatching more generals to Boston to prepare a command structure for regiments of troops to be sent to the colonies to quell the rebellion. Likewise, before the battles of Lexington and Concord, the English Navy 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.) As to early army buildup of command structure for additional regiments of English troops, see for example, the Country News, (York, England) March 28, 1775, reporting:
As to the naval buildup, see for example, the St. James's Chronicle, London, from Thursday, March 30, 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) The index is accessed through : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/index.html Use the Freefind search box to locate references to Webpages.,
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