This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...Not one laid down his gun. "Fire!" cried the commander. In a moment, seven Americans lay dead, and the Revolution had begun. This was on April 19,1775. At Concord the British began to destroy the arms, but so many minute men were upon them that there was nothing to do but to retreat to Boston. The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...Not one laid down his gun. "Fire!" cried the commander. In a moment, seven Americans lay dead, and the Revolution had begun. This was on April 19,1775. At Concord the British began to destroy the arms, but so many minute men were upon them that there was nothing to do but to retreat to Boston. The farmers pursued. Longfellow tells the story of the retreat in his "Paul Revere's Ride: "--"How the British Regulars fired and fled, --How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load." Colonists hasten to Boston Long afterwards, when Benjamin Franklin was in England, some one said that hiding behind a wall and firing was no way to fight. Franklin asked quietly, but with a sly twinkle in his eye, "Did n't those stone walls have two sides?" Men whose names were to become well-known hurried to Boston, and although General Gage was in command of the British troops and had been appointed by the king governor of Massachusetts, he was really a prisoner in the city, for he was surrounded by many thousand men. Among these men was Israel Putnam, of Connecticut, who had left his plough in the field and started for Boston as soon as the news of the battle of Lexington reached him. There was also Benedict Arnold with sixty volunteers. Arnold suggested that Fort Ticonderoga, at the northern end of Lake George, ought to be captured, not only because there was in this fort a great supply of powder and guns, but because if no Americans were there to prevent, the British troops could come down from Canada and take New York. THE MINUTE MAN...
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