"we got all over the bay and landed on the opposite shore betwixt twelve and one o’clock and was on our march by one, which was at first through some swamps and slips of the sea till we got into the road leading to lexington soon after which the country people begun to fire their alarm guns, light their beacons, to raise the country."the events referred to above were the most direct result . king george iii’s decision to allow the enactment of the townshend actsb. benjamin franklin’s decision to support the crown’s decision to tax tea *c. samuel adam’s decision to publicize the events of the boston massacred. general thomas gage’s decision to seize the gunpowder and firearms of massachusetts colonists