An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . a subsequent session, in November, they took measures for arm-ing the militia, and appointed two more officers, Prescottand also secured the co-operation of New Hampshire, RhodeIsland, and Connecticut, in raising an army of twenty thousand men. 2d2 318 CO?:iMENCEMEXT OP THE REVOLUTION. fn Ihode Island and New Hampshire, the ordnance and ammunitionwert secured for the us
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . a subsequent session, in November, they took measures for arm-ing the militia, and appointed two more officers, Prescottand also secured the co-operation of New Hampshire, RhodeIsland, and Connecticut, in raising an army of twenty thousand men. 2d2 318 CO?:iMENCEMEXT OP THE REVOLUTION. fn Ihode Island and New Hampshire, the ordnance and ammunitionwert secured for the use of the people. The British ministry, when apprised of these acts, disregarded theattempts of Chatham and Burke to have the grievances of the colo-nist? removed, declared Massachusetts in a state of rebellion, andcaused a bill to be passed restricting the colonial commerce and fish-eries, while John Hancock and Samuel Adams, and a band of otherleading spirits, were stimulating the colonies to the most determinedresistance. Oppression and menaces of force on the one hand, anddiscontent and a determination to be free, or die in the cause ct free-dom, on the other, were now speedily bringing affairs to a BBITigH NAVAL COSTITMB, 1?76 CHAPTER XXVII. FIRST HOSTILITIES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. HE first serious collision between the colo-nists and the British troops ar ;se from anexpedition sent out from Boston by Gene-ral Gage, to destroy some military storesdeposited at Concord. For the executionof this design, he, on the night precedingthe 19th of April, detached Lieutenant-CoJonel Smith and Major Pitcairn, witheight hundred grenadiers and light infantry, who, at eleven oclock,embarked in boats at the bottom of Boston Common, crossed Charlesriver, and having landed at Phipps farm, in Cambridge, commenceda silent and expeditious march for Concord. Although measureshad been taken to intercept any expresses that might be sent fromBoston to alarm the country, yet some messenge
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