<em>"In the spring of 1775, General Thomas Gage, the British governor of Massachusetts, received instructions from Great Britain to seize all stores of weapons and gunpowder accessible to the American insurgents. On April 18, he ordered British troops to march against Concord and Lexington."</em>
It contributed to the rise of the Ottoman Empire. When the Byzantine Empire ended, the Ottomans received a strong trade port affecting Mediterranean-black sea trade zones.<span />
