What is Thomas Gage?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[General (United Kingdom)|General]] | name = Thomas Gage | image = Thomas Gage John Singleton Copley.jpeg | caption = Portrait by [[John Singleton Copley]], {{circa|1768}} | office1 = [[List of colonial governors of Massachusetts|Governor of Massachusetts Bay]] | term_start1 = 13 May 1774 | term_end1 = 11 October 1775 | monarch1 = [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]] | predecessor1 = [[Thomas Hutchinson (governor)|Thomas Hutchinson]] | successor1 = Vacant ([[American Revolution]])<br>[[John Hancock]] <small>(as [[Governor of Massachusetts]])</small> | order2 = [[Commander-in-Chief, North America]] | term_start2 = September 1763 | term_end2 = June 1775 | monarch2 = [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]] | predecessor2 = [[Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst|Jeffery Amherst]] | successor2 = [[Frederick Haldimand]] | office3 = [[Governor of Montreal|Military Governor of Quebec]] | term_start3 = 1760 | term_end3 = 1763 | predecessor3 = [[François-Pierre Rigaud de Vaudreuil]] | successor3 = [[Ralph Burton]] | birth_date = 10 March 1718/19 | birth_place = [[Firle]], [[Sussex]], [[England]] | death_date = 2 April {{Death year and age|1787|1719}} | death_place = [[Portland Place]], [[London]], England | nationality = British | spouse = {{marriage|[[Margaret Kemble Gage]]|8 December 1758|}} | profession = [[Officer (armed forces)|Military officer]], [[official]] | signature = Thomas Gage Signature.svg | allegiance = {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | branch = <!-- EDITORS NOTE: Please do not add the Army flag adopted by the British government in 1938 (151 years after Gage's death) as it would be historically inaccurate. Thank you. --> [[British Army]] | serviceyears = 1741–1775<br