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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Battle of Lexington and Concord. (search)
iles from Boston, he planned a secret expedition to seize or destroy them. Towards midnight, on April 18, he sent 800 men, under Lieutenant-Colonel Smith and Major Pitcairn, to execute his designs. The vigilant patriots had discovered the secret, and were on the alert, and when the expedition moved to cross the Charles River, Pato arouse the inhabitants and the minute-men. Soon afterwards church bells, musketry, and cannon spread the alarm over the country; and when, at dawn, April 19, Pitcairn, with the advanced guard, reached Lexington, a little village 6 miles from Concord, he found seventy determined men, under Capt. Jonas Parker, drawn up on the green to oppose him. Pitcairn rode forward and shouted, Disperse! disperse, you rebels! Down with your arms, and disperse! They refused obedience, and he ordered his men to fire. The order was obeyed, and the Revolutionary War was thus begun. Eight minute-men—good citizens of Mas- Battle of Lexington. sachusetts—were killed,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pitcairn, John 1740- (search)
Pitcairn, John 1740- Military officer; born in Fifeshire, Scotland, about 1740; was made major in the British army in 1771. Leading troops to seize stores at Concord, he engaged in the fight at Lexington, and was shot dead on entering the redoubt on Bunker (Breed's) Hill, June 17, 1775.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
300 members, meet at Cambridge......Feb. 1, 1775 Governor Gage sends a detachment of soldiers to Salem to seize some cannon said to be deposited there; they are met by a party of militia, but no collision takes place......Feb. 26, 1775 British troops, about 800 strong, under Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, start towards Concord about 10 P. M.......April 18, 1775 Paul Revere's ride to notify the country of the march of the British troops towards Concord, night of......April 18, 1775 Major Pitcairn, with the advance at Lexington, about 12 miles northwest from Boston, is met by about sixty militia under Captain Parker; here the first collision takes place between British troops and Americans, early in the morning of......April 19, 1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American forces by the Continental Congress......June 15, 1775 General Gage (lately reinforced) has at Boston about 10,000 men; Generals Clinton, Burgoyne, and Howe are also there......June,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), William and Mary, Fort (search)
believed the appeal to arms could not much longer be delayed. On the afternoon of December 13, Paul Revere (the same who escaped the vigilance of Howe's guards four months later, and spread the news along the road from Boston to Lexington of Pitcairn's intended march) rode up to Sullivan's house in Durham. One of the survivors of Sullivan's company died only some thirty years ago, and from his lips, shortly before his death, was obtained the story of what happened that day. Revere's horse, eyes of the deluded Americans. Thus, while war was doubtless ultimately inevitable, Sullivan's bold action was the immediate cause that led to it. Orders were forthwith despatched from London to seize all arms to be found in the colonies, and Pitcairn's march to Lexington was the result. Sullivan was the first man in active rebellion against the British government, and he drew with him the province he lived in. In a recent address on the history of that part of New Hampshire, the Rev. Dr.