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Powder Alarm

major popular reaction to the removal of gunpowder from a magazine by British soldiers under orders from General Thomas Gage, royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, on September 1, 1774
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Powder Alarm
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Powder Alarm

Summary

Powder Alarm ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (74 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Powder Alarm's image is recorded as SomervillePowderhouse1935.jpg[2].
  • Powder Alarm's location is recorded as Boston[3].
  • Powder Alarm's part of is recorded as American Revolutionary War[4].
  • Powder Alarm's point in time is recorded as +1774-09-01T00:00:00Z[5].
  • Powder Alarm's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 42.400055555555554, 'lon': -71.11622222222222}[6].
  • Powder Alarm's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/061y6h[7].

Why It Matters

Powder Alarm ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (74 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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