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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 27: (search)
ad not advanced far, when the firing Chap. XXVII.} 1775. April 19. of guns and ringing of bells announced that their expedi to demand a reinforcement. On the morning of the nineteenth of April, between the hours of twelve and one, the message fres! How wives with heaving breasts, Chap. XXVII.} 1775. April 19. bravely seconded their husbands; how the countrymen, forthirty answered to their names. The Chap. XXVII.} 1775. April 19. captain, John Parker, ordered every one to load with powund on which they trod was the altar Chap. XXVII.} 1775. April 19. of freedom, and they were to furnish its victims. Thelay on the post which he took at the Chap. XXVII.} 1775. April 19. morning's drum beat. So fell Isaac Muzzey, and so died race divine. They gave their lives Chap. XXVII.} 1775. April 19. in testimony to the rights of mankind, bequeathing to th rightfulness of human freedom. All Chap. XXVII.} 1775. April 19. the centuries bowed themselves from the recesses of a pa
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 28: (search)
up on the village green, Chap. XXVIII} 1775. April 19. fired a volley, huzzaed thrice by way of tri from their sense of the Chap. XXVIII} 1775. April 19. divine power. This looking to God as their . But they found there Chap. XXVIII.} 1775. April 19. nothing to destroy except some carriages forl it met the causeway at Chap. XXVIII} 1775. April 19. right angles. The Americans saw before them Davis and Abner Hosmer, Chap. XXVIII} 1775. April 19. the latter a son of the deacon of the Acton had done. They made no Chap. XXVIII} 1775. April 19. pursuit and did no further harm, except thatle from that of petition Chap. XXVIII} 1775. April 19. and complaint, came down from the north, whiAmericans had to contend Chap. XXVIII} 1775. April 19. against nearly the whole of the British armyeir flight led the regu- Chap. XXVIII} 1775. April 19. lars to plunder houses by the wayside, to depline, the pursuit never Chap. XXVIII} 1775. April 19. flagged.— Below West Cambridge, the milit[4 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 29: (search)
Chapter 29: Effects of the day of Lexington and Concord: the alarm. April, 1775. darkness closed upon the country and upon the Chap. XXIX.} 1775. April 19. town, but it was no night for sleep. Heralds on swift relays of horses transmitted the war-message from hand to hand, till village repeated it to village; the sea to the backwoods; the plains to the highlands; and it was never suffered to droop, till it had been borne north, and south, and east, and west, throughout the land. d. Ever renewing its strength, powerful enough even to create a commonwealth, it breathed its inspiring word to the first settlers of Kentucky; so that hunters who made their halt in the matchless valley of the Elkhorn, commemorated the nineteenth day of April by naming their encampment Lexington. With one impulse the colonies sprung to arms: with one spirit they pledged themselves to each other to be ready for the extreme event. With one heart, the continent cried Liberty or Death. The
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 33: (search)
fidence in peace. And now it was certain that war had begun, that Britain was at war with herself. The Massachusetts congress, by a swift packet in its own service, had sent to England a calm and accurate statement of the events of the nineteenth of April, fortified by depositions, with a charge to Arthur Lee their agent, to give it the widest circulation. These were their words to the inhabitants of Britain: Brethren, we profess to be loyal and dutiful subjects, and so hardly dealt with agrandeur of the strife, saying: The country people must soon disperse, as it is the season for planting their Indian corn, the chief sustenance of New England. With clearer vision Garnier took notice, that the Americans had acted on the nineteenth of April, after a full knowledge of the address of the two houses of parliament to the king, pledging lives and fortunes for the reduction of America, and of the king's answer. The Americans, he wrote to Vergennes, display in their conduct, and ev
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 34: (search)
ad invaded the country, had wasted stores which were the property of the province, had burned and destroyed private property, had shed innocent blood; the people of Massachusetts had justly risen in arms, accepted aid from the neighboring colonies, and besieged the British army. At once, on the eleventh, the considera- May 11. tion of the report of the agents of congress on their petition to the king, gave way to the more interesting and more important narrative of the events of the nineteenth of April, and their consequences. The members listened with sympathy, and their approval of the conduct of Massachusetts was unanimous. But as that province, without directly asking the continent to adopt the army which she had assembled, entreated direction and assistance; and as the answer might involve an ultimate declaration of independence, as well as the immediate use of the credit and resources of all the colonies, the subject was reserved for careful deliberation in a committee of th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 39: (search)
s confusion; but while the bells were ringing and the drums beating to arms, officers who had longed for the op- Chap. Xxxix} 1775. June. 17. portunity of meeting the British in battle, soldierswho clung to the officers of their choice with constancy, set off for the scene of battle, hardly knowing themselves whether they were countenanced by the general, or the committee of safety, or the council of war; or moved by the same impetuous enthusiasm which had brought them forth on the nineteenth of April, and which held an honorable death in the field for the liberties of all America preferable to an ignominious slavery. The veteran, Seth Pomeroy of Northampton, an old man of seventy, once second in rank in the Massachusetts army, but now postponed to younger men, heedless of the slight, was roused by the continuance of the cannonade, and rode to Charlestown neck; there, thoughtful for his horse, which was a borrowed one, he shouldered his fowling-piece, marched over on foot, and a