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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
ince, and Headquarters of the standing forces in America; having a septennial assembly, a royal council, ships of war anchored near its wharfs, and within the town itself a fort, mounting many heavy cannon. Journal of an Officer. King's Lib. Ms. 213. There the authority of the British government was concentrated in the hands of Gage, the general, whose military powers, as ample as those of a Viceroy, extended over all the colonies, and who was extremely exasperated N. Rogers to Hutchinson, N. Y. 16 Sept. 1765. at the course of events, as well in New-York as Massachusetts. But he was at a loss what to do. Besides, the officers of government had no confidence in one another. In Boston, Gage was not esteemed a man of capacity; and he, in his turn, thought Bernard pusillanimous. At New-York, he called upon the civil power to exert itself more efficiently. All civil authority is at an end, Colden to Gage, 2 Sept. 1765. answered Colden; the presence of a battalion is the only