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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 28: (search)
r flanking parties became ineffective from weariness; the wounded were scarce able to get forward. In the west of Lexington, as the British were rising Fiske's hill, a sharp contest ensued. It was at the eastern foot of the same hill, that James Hayward, son of the deacon of Acton Chap. XXVIII} 1775. April 19. church, encountered a regular, and both at the same moment fired; the regular was instantly killed, James Hayward was mortally wounded. A little further on fell the octogenarian JosiJames Hayward was mortally wounded. A little further on fell the octogenarian Josiah Haynes, of Sudbury, who had kept pace by the side of the swiftest in the pursuit, with a rugged valor which age had not tempered. The British troops, greatly exhausted and fatigued, and having expended almost all their ammunition, began to run rather than retreat in order. The officers vainly attempted to stop their flight. They were driven before the Americans like sheep. At last, about two in the afternoon, after they had hurried with shameful haste through the middle of the town, ab