There are plenty of scholarly books and articles out there regarding American History, but there are elements of British history that stick out, too. General Gage giving the order today that his troops begin to march on Roxbury. It was a relatively small gesture at the time, but many, many colonial events can be traced to that particular action.

And as a result the Colonists determined that Britain can’t move numbers of men like that again without bumping into a few flintlocks along the way.