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The Powder Alarm was a major popular reaction to the removal of gunpowder from a gunpowder magazine near Boston by British troops under orders from General Thomas Gage, governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, on September 1, 1774. In response to this action, amid false rumors that blood had been shed, alarm spread through the countryside to Connecticut and beyond, and local Patriots formed themselves into armed mobs, fearing that war was at hand. Thousands of militiamen began streaming toward Boston and Cambridge, and mob action forced Loyalists and some government officials to flee to the protection of the British Army. A similar event, known as Gunpowder Incident, occurred in Virginia in April, 1775.
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