They spiked their guns and retreated across the bridge, and Captain Leslie ordered his men to retreat into Fort Murray.
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Under orders from John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, British troops removed gunpowder from the colonial storehouse in Williamsburg, alarming the Whigs that dominated the colonial legislature.
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