the town commercially, sealed off the port and it would begin with the arrival of royal governor thomas gage, a military governor and the four regiments of regulars and it would take this story through the uptick and it became occupied city through these skirmishes of lexington and concord that bunker hill was the point* that violence turned from a skirmish in to the all out war and that was the turning point* it was realized this would be something more than a dustup to be dealt with it diplomatically this would move into new and terrifying directions. what a lot of people think of outside of boston is when they look at the revolutionary boston as the center of patriot to finance which it originally was. with the arrival of general gage and his growing army of british regulars that would grow to almost 9,000 by the end of occupation, instead of the center of patriot to finance it was turned inside out and the trees began to flee the city particularly after lexington and concord that created a wave of panic and not just bostonian says says, but people who lived around boston to throw out and