Who sent troops to Lexington

and Concorde to capture stores of ammunition

General Thomas Gage sent troops to Lexington and Concord to capture stores of ammunition.

On this day in 1775, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the American arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock ... Revere arrived in Lexington shortly before Dawes, but together they warned Adams and Hancock and then set out for Concord ... Lead Story.