. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... etreat by the way he had come. One of those killed at the bridge wasIsaac Davis, the captain of the minute ^ Acton. He had bidden his young w/^e a 358 touching good-bye, as he ran to lead hismen to the fight. A little later his deadbody was brought to her door. With the retreat of the British from Con-cord the real work of the day began. Thecountry was thoroughly aroused, and mencame pouring in from every direction, eagerto get a shot at the regulars.
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... etreat by the way he had come. One of those killed at the bridge wasIsaac Davis, the captain of the minute ^ Acton. He had bidden his young w/^e a 358 touching good-bye, as he ran to lead hismen to the fight. A little later his deadbody was brought to her door. With the retreat of the British from Con-cord the real work of the day began. Thecountry was thoroughly aroused, and mencame pouring in from every direction, eagerto get a shot at the regulars. The road bywhich the royal forces were retreating wasnarrow and crooked, and led through torests THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. the strife as the regulars entered its and wide the alarm was spreadingthrough the country, and the people weregetting under arms. By noon a messengerrode furiously into the distant town of Wor-cester and shouted the alarm. Instantly theminute men of the town got under arms, andafter joining their minister in prayer, on thecommon, took up the march for whole province was rising, and the. DEATH OF ISAAC DAVIS. and thickets, and was bordered by the stonewalls which enclosed the farms. At everystep the militia and minute men hung uponthe enemy, and kept up an irregular butfatal fire upon them from behind trees,fences and houses. Flanking parties werethrown out to clear the way, but withoutsuccess. The number of the Americansincreased at every step* Each town took up enemies of the fugitive regulars wereincreasing every moment. Smith hurried his command through Lex-=ington at a rapid rate, and a short distancebeyond the town met Lord Percy advancingto his assistance with twelve hundredinfantry and two pieces of artillery. Percyformed his men into a square, enclosing thefugitives, who dropped helplessly on the PROGRESS OF THE WAR. 359 ground, their tongues hanging out of theirmouths hke those of dogs after a chase,and with his cannon kep
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