Thomas Gage, English general and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (born 1719)

Thomas Gage

British Army officer and colonial administrator (1718/19–1787)

General Thomas Gage was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his many years of service in North America, including serving as Commander-in-Chief, North America during the early days of the American Revolution.

List of colonial governors of Massachusetts

The territory of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the fifty United States, was settled in the 17th century by several different English colonies. The territories claimed or administered by these colonies encompassed a much larger area than that of the modern state, and…