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1771. In 1774 he arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, in command of 600 Marines assigned to support the royal governor, General Thomas Gage, in the increasingly resistive colony.

Career

John Pitcairn was respected by the citizens in Boston as one of the more reasonable officers in the occupying force. He was in command of the advance party that marched on Lexington and Concord on 19

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