At the time of the Battles of Lexington and Concord,General Thomas Gage,the commander of the British garrison in Boston,
A) considered his army too small to act without reinforcements.
B) was convinced that Americans would never actually dare to fight.
C) arrested Sam Adams and John Hancock near Lexington.
D) offered to resign his command to avoid war.
E) believed the colonists' calls for independence were justified.

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General Thomas Gage believed his army was too small to act without reinforcements. This is evidenced by his decision to send out a group of 700 soldiers, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, to seize and destroy colonial military supplies at Concord, in the hopes of preventing further colonial resistance.

At the Time of the Battles of Lexington and Concord,General