. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . ife, whopassed word to the spies swarming outside. At anyrate, whatever was designed in Boston was, it is alleged,known within an hour or two at Medford, at Roxbury,at Cambridge, at Brookline, and in every Boston tavern.^ ^ Madam Gage was Margaret, daughter of Peter Kemble, Esq.,President of the Council of New Jersey, and granddaughter of theHon. Stephen van Cortlandt, one of the great patroons of New marriage to the Hon. Thomas Gage, Esq., to
. The first American Civil War, first period 1775-1778, with chapters on the continental or revolutionary army and on the forces of the crown . ife, whopassed word to the spies swarming outside. At anyrate, whatever was designed in Boston was, it is alleged,known within an hour or two at Medford, at Roxbury,at Cambridge, at Brookline, and in every Boston tavern.^ ^ Madam Gage was Margaret, daughter of Peter Kemble, Esq.,President of the Council of New Jersey, and granddaughter of theHon. Stephen van Cortlandt, one of the great patroons of New marriage to the Hon. Thomas Gage, Esq., took place on8th December 1758. 2 It seems the officers and soldiers are a good deal disaffectedtowards the Governor, thinking, I suppose, he is partial to theinhabitants.—Letters of John Andrews^ formerly Selectman of Boston^p. 401. The Governors partiality is alleged to have been largelydue to his wife. Backstairs correspondence between subordinateGenerals and Whitehall or the Treasury occurs at every stage ofthis war. Burgoyne had practised it ; afterwards he suffered fromit. There is no doubt Whitehall encouraged a kind of unofficial. antord^ Gttog ^stab\ Ion London: MacaoEiillaiL &■ THE STORM CENTRE, BOSTON 169 Burgoyne, too, seems to have formed a poor opinionof General Gage, and had no scruple in writing to hisown and Gages official superiors uninvited criticismson the Governor. The amazing point about thiscorrespondence is that the Colonial Secretary acceptedand acted on it. So much disloyalty in all directionsdoes there seem to have been at work in connectionwith that explosive city.^ The lurid romances depicting General Gage and hislittle court, their pompous extravagance and heartless-ness, are hard to follow if, as Burgoyne reports, therewas no money in the military chest, and mutton wasa guinea a pound. Bunker Hill, which in that slope of it lying closerto Charlestown was known as Breeds Hill, lies parallelto the shorter axis of the town. The newly-arriv
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