Never had their been a more foolish notion by the House of Lords and commanding officers about Lord General Thomas Gage, that the heart of American rebellion should be struck in and around the epicenter of Boston in 1775. By that point, the rebel network was commuting often to Philadelphia for a most heinous insurrection plot, and had the House of Lords left Boston well enough alone, on that fateful summer of 1775, the brats with their makeshift Congress in Philadelphia would not have postured such an audacious Virginian to general a corps of otherwise rowdy thrashing barbarians conceived by Salem witchcraft into a standing army. Indeed, had Admiral Samuel Graves fleet sailed up the Delaware River that fateful June, instead of into the pyrrhic brimstone of Charleston, the British Empire would have smashed any hopes of Congress, and this revolutionary summer would have ended before it began!
