The most sensational rumor going back more than a century, however, is that Margaret Kemble Gage, the beautiful American wife of the British general who planned the strategic march on Lexington and ...

Historians have debated whether the New Jersey-born wife of a British general was the one who leaked his orders and set the militia into action 250 years ago.

because almost everyone back then considered themselves British.) Margaret Kemble Gage, the wife of the British general who planned the march on Concord, is suspected of leaking her husband’s ...

Others insist that circumstantial evidence is solid enough to offer only one conclusion: Margaret Kemble Gage was a mother of the American Revolution. William Gordon, a pastor in Massachusetts ...