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Why were the colonists storing weapons in Concord??

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British troops were sent there to take away and confiscate their weapons.
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they were against the British began calling themselves "patriots." In the town of concord. so general gage sent 700 British soldiers to find the weapons and arrest the two patriots leaders
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