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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 43: (search)
II.} 1770. March ence at Westminster. Evening came on. The young moon was shining brightly in a cloudless winter sky, and its light was increased by a new fallen snow. R. Treat Paine's Trial of the Soldiers, 121. Parties of soldiers were driving about the streets, Hutchinson's History, III. 271. making a parade of valor, challenging resistance, and striking the inhabitants indiscriminately with sticks or sheathed cutlasses. A band which rushed out from Murray's Barracks, Jeremiah Belknap's Testimony, Boston Narrative, 65. in Brattle Street, armed with clubs, cutlasses and bayonets, provoked resistance, and an affray ensued. Ensign Maul, at the gate of the barrack-yard, cried to the soldiers, Turn out, and I will stand by you; kill them; stick them; knock them down; run your bayonets through them; James Kirkwood, Boston Narrative, 70, and 19 20. Dr. Richard Hiron's Trial of the Soldiers, 61, 62. and one soldier after another levelled a firelock and threatened to make