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 | | Trumbull, an important painter of the American Revolution, witnessed the battle.]] On the night of 18 April 1775, General Gage sent 700 men to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock (leaders of the resistance, housed in Lexington) and to seize munitions stored by the colonial militia at Concord, Massachusetts. |
 | | Congress had initially hoped that Canada would join them as the fourteenth colony, but When that failed to happen, an invasion of Canada was authorized. |
 | | The invasion of Canada ended as an embarrassing disaster for the Americans, but Arnold&8217;s improvised navy on Lake Champlain managed to delay the fateful British counter thrust (the Saratoga Campaign) until 1777. |
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