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Bunker Hill (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ngton on that afternoon twenty-five Provincials fell or were mortally wounded. Among them were Henry Putnam and William Polly of Medford. It was between five and six o'clock that Percy crossed into Cambridge, then into the present city of Somerville at the corner of Beach and Elm streets, down Somerville avenue into Union square, and so on down Washington street along the then Cambridge road. Soon after sunset the column reached Charlestown common, now Sullivan square, and wheeled up Bunker hill. The British were back in Charlestown. All along this route the Minute Men kept up the attack upon the exhausted and disordered British, sometimes in organized attack, sometimes in personal encounter. Among the troops that followed the British down into Charlestown were the Minute Men of Medford. So ended the battle of April nineteenth, and while the women and children of Charlestown were fleeing in terror across the marshes to Medford, the Medford company proceeded to Cambridge,
Concord (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
In Medford and all along the battle road to Concord stand sentinels of that day. One need not go gton common or beyond to the North bridge in Concord to feel the consciousness that in that region John Hancock as president, and the second in Concord on February 1, 1775. In October the Congress that preceded the meeting of the Congress in Concord on April 15, 1775, when, as the journal statember of the committee of supplies, he sent to Concord a large consignment of military stores and maed along the highways in Cambridge and toward Concord. It was while the troops at rest on the Cambreached its objective six miles further on in Concord. There they searched out the stores, and thering the entire advance of the British toward Concord it is not easy to determine the whereabouts otain Parker's men alone barred the way. At Concord it is known that both Minute Men and militia , The nineteenth of April. French, The day of Concord and Lexington. Coburn, The battle of April 19[4 more...]
North America (search for this): chapter 11
rs take us farther from it, let us pause after the century and a half to bring to mind the spring days of 1775. When March turned to April one hundred and fifty years ago it ushered in an uneasy spring for the colonists of Great Britain in North America. In Massachusetts, in Boston and the neighboring towns, a new restlessness, stimulated as it were by the rays of the spring sunshine, permeated life itself. It was the outcome of what had gone before. For ten years, in fact, there had beenion and action to protect and preserve their liberties by force of arms. The cause lay ten years back in the policy of the English Parliament to impose arbitrary taxes upon the colonists. In 1763 England had wrested from France supremacy in North America. In that seven years struggle the colonists had served the mother country. In recognition of that fact England had remitted to the treasury of Massachusetts substantial sums in part payment of expenses thus advanced. In 1765, however, the
Grove River (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
almost destitute of men, for unorganized volunteers, singly and in groups, took up their own hurried march, eager to be in the fray. One was Henry Putnam, in 1758 a lieutenant in the Louisburg campaign, and past the age of military service. Seizing his flintlock as his wife asked if he were going without his dinner, he answered, I am going to take powder and balls for my dinner today, or to give them some. Another was the Rev. Edward Brooks. From his house near the old slave wall on the Grove street of today, he too went over to Lexington, and with full-bottomed wig, rode on horseback, his gun on his shoulder. From the garret window of that house his son, Peter, prompted as we may fancy by the impulse of more than one boy of the age of eight, listened to the guns of the British at Menotomy and saw them glisten under the morning sun. Along with the volunteers, throughout the morning the country people were moving through Medford toward Menotomy — in their faces curiosity, susp
Medford (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ops at rest on the Cambridge shore were receiving a day's rations and thirty-six rounds of ammunition that Revere started from the Charlestown shore, mounted on Deacon Larkin's best horse. He had gone beyond Charlestown Neck, along the Cambridge road to the point where Crescent street now joins Washington street in Somerville, when he caught sight of two British officers halted in the shadows by the roadside. Wheeling his horse, he dashed back along the road to the Neck and turned into the Mystic road, now Broadway and Main street in Somerville, and Main street in Medford. It was the two British officers who intercepted Revere on his intended route to Cambridge that caused him to make the detour through Medford. It is because of those unknown soldiers of the night, lurking in the shadows of the road, that in Medford and at the house of Isaac Hall was sounded the first alarm on that ride. It was one o'clock before the British column left the Charles river behind them. By that ti
France (France) (search for this): chapter 11
ys of the spring sunshine, permeated life itself. It was the outcome of what had gone before. For ten years, in fact, there had been gathering on the part of the colonists of Massachusetts against the mother country resentment, resistance, defiance, and finally determination and action to protect and preserve their liberties by force of arms. The cause lay ten years back in the policy of the English Parliament to impose arbitrary taxes upon the colonists. In 1763 England had wrested from France supremacy in North America. In that seven years struggle the colonists had served the mother country. In recognition of that fact England had remitted to the treasury of Massachusetts substantial sums in part payment of expenses thus advanced. In 1765, however, the financial policy of a majority of the British statesmen sought to reimburse the royal coffers by a tax upon the colonies. Its first form was a stamp act, so bitterly opposed that it was repealed in less than six months. Next
Danvers (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
t some hour of the morning thirty-eight men from Lynn marched through Medford in the direction of the gun-shots up the Lexington road. The word reached Salem and Danvers at about nine o'clock in the morning of the nineteenth. The Danvers men, three hundred and thirty-one of them, without waiting for a full regiment, set off at niDanvers men, three hundred and thirty-one of them, without waiting for a full regiment, set off at nine o'clock. Before noon they came striding through Medford and in four hours did the march of sixteen miles to Menotomy. All these, during the day, came down the Salem road through the square and followed the route taken by Captain Hall and his men during the cool hours of the early morning. The day, in the meantime, had becomthe battle Captain Hall of Medford, fifty-nine men; Captain Blaney of Malden, seventy-five men; Captain Bancroft of Lynn, thirty-eight men; and eight companies of Danvers men, totaling three hundred and thirty-one men. It thus appears that these companies, among others, may have been definitely held at Menotomy, or in the uncertain
Middlesex County (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
nnings were in the first armed stand of the Minute Men gathered from the towns roundabout us. Here in Massachusetts, in the decade preceding that year, from event to event grew the resolve of free men to preserve their liberties. Here in Middlesex county on that day, at the flash of the first volley at Lexington, flamed up the unconquerable spirit of the Revolution. Here in Medford her patriot sons, roused in the middle of the night, hurried toward Lexington in the early hours of the mornin beyond to the North bridge in Concord to feel the consciousness that in that region lay the first battle of the Revolution. One need not scan the roadside markers or read the inscription on the larger monuments. That whole country side of Middlesex county speaks of the days of 1775. The long established roads leading from town to town, the stone walls skirting the highways, the ample houses fitting snugly to the ground against the winter's cold, the generous chimneys where the wood smoke dri
Surrey (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 11
tle of April nineteenth, and while the women and children of Charlestown were fleeing in terror across the marshes to Medford, the Medford company proceeded to Cambridge, which became the headquarters of the American army. But how looked at these events Hugh Earl Percy, whose men that night recrossed the Charles in the boats of the Somerset, which swung in the tide as Paul Revere, the night before, passed under its shadow? On August 8, 1774, Percy wrote to Henry Reveley, Esq., Peckham, Surrey, The people here are a set of sly, artful, hypocritical rascalls, cruel, & cowards. I must own I cannot but despise them completely. On April 20, 1775, in an unofficial account of the retreat, he wrote General Harvey, We retired for 15 m under an incessant fire, wh like a moving circle surrounded & fold us wherever we went, till we arrived at Charlestown at 8 in the ev'g, . . . Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob, will find himself much mistaken. . . . You may depend upon it, tha
Somerset, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
attack, sometimes in personal encounter. Among the troops that followed the British down into Charlestown were the Minute Men of Medford. So ended the battle of April nineteenth, and while the women and children of Charlestown were fleeing in terror across the marshes to Medford, the Medford company proceeded to Cambridge, which became the headquarters of the American army. But how looked at these events Hugh Earl Percy, whose men that night recrossed the Charles in the boats of the Somerset, which swung in the tide as Paul Revere, the night before, passed under its shadow? On August 8, 1774, Percy wrote to Henry Reveley, Esq., Peckham, Surrey, The people here are a set of sly, artful, hypocritical rascalls, cruel, & cowards. I must own I cannot but despise them completely. On April 20, 1775, in an unofficial account of the retreat, he wrote General Harvey, We retired for 15 m under an incessant fire, wh like a moving circle surrounded & fold us wherever we went, till we
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