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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)
officers should, on their part, have kept their men within the barracks after night-fall. Instead of it they left them to roam the streets. Hutchinson should have insisted on measures of precaution; Gordon's Hist. of American Revolution, i. 281. but he too much wished the favor of all who had influ- Chap. XLIII.} 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 b