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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)
wered, with powder and ball. Richard Palmes, in the Trial, 18. Are they going to fire upon the inhabitants? asked Theodore Bliss. They cannot, without my orders; replied Preston; Theodore Bliss, Trial, 82. while the town-born called out, ComeTheodore Bliss, Trial, 82. while the town-born called out, Come on, you rascals, you bloody backs, you lobster scoundrels, fire if you dare. We know you dare not. Preston's Case. Just then Montgomery received a blow from a stick thrown which hit his musket; and the word Fire, being given, he stepped a littlethink he did. 1. Disciplined men in the regular army were not likely to fire without orders. Preston himself said to T. Bliss, They cannot fire without my orders. See the Testimony of T. Bliss. 2. The men said positively they had his orders tT. Bliss. 2. The men said positively they had his orders to fire. 3. There were many witnesses to his giving the word to fire. 4. He himself owned it to Hutchinson when he said I did it to save Chap. XLIII.} 1770. March my men. 5. Afterwards he was obliged to confess he said Fire, yet pretending