GAGE, Thomas, British Commander in Chief in America (1763-75) . Autograph letter signed ("Thos. Gage") TO SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON New York, 21 November 1763. INDIAN RAIDS ON THE VIRGINIA FRONTIER. Gage, five days after taking over as British Commander in Chief, writes to Johnson, his Supt. of Indian Affairs, on recent Native American incursions on the Virginia frontier: "Since the departure of Sir Jeffery Amherst who sailed the 18th...I have received a letter from the Council of Virginia complaining of the Depredations of the Northern Indians on the Frontiers of that Province...I inclose you a copy of the said letter; begging the favor of you to return me an answer thereto, as soon as you shall have made the necessary enquirys therein, that I may transmit the same to Lt. Govt. Fauquier." With the death of Capt. Lotteridge in Montreal, Gage asks Johnson to "order Capt. Claus thither" as a replacement: "If he is there the Beginning of the new Year, the Time the Indians are coming Home from their Hunt, I believe it will be soon enough." Gage, previously military governor in Montreal, replaced Amherst as Commander in Chief, and held the position for the next nine years. Upon the outbreak of revolutionary agitation in 1775, he was himself recalled to England and succeeded by William Howe
GAGE, Thomas, British Commander in Chief in America (1763-75) . Autograph letter signed ("Thos. Gage") TO SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON New York, 21 November 1763. INDIAN RAIDS ON THE VIRGINIA FRONTIER. Gage, five days after taking over as British Commander in Chief, writes to Johnson, his Supt. of Indian Affairs, on recent Native American incursions on the Virginia frontier: "Since the departure of Sir Jeffery Amherst who sailed the 18th...I have received a letter from the Council of Virginia complaining of the Depredations of the Northern Indians on the Frontiers of that Province...I inclose you a copy of the said letter; begging the favor of you to return me an answer thereto, as soon as you shall have made the necessary enquirys therein, that I may transmit the same to Lt. Govt. Fauquier." With the death of Capt. Lotteridge in Montreal, Gage asks Johnson to "order Capt. Claus thither" as a replacement: "If he is there the Beginning of the new Year, the Time the Indians are coming Home from their Hunt, I believe it will be soon enough." Gage, previously military governor in Montreal, replaced Amherst as Commander in Chief, and held the position for the next nine years. Upon the outbreak of revolutionary agitation in 1775, he was himself recalled to England and succeeded by William Howe
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