An American history . 19, 1775 expedition, and galloping ahead of the British troops, he rousedthe farmers on the way and warned the refugees. When thevan of the British column reached Lexington, they found a litdecompany of minutemen (militia ready to fight at a minutesnotice) drawn up on the village green under Captain British major Pitcairn ordered the rebels to came a volley of musket shots, apparently without themajors orders, and the British marched on, leaving eight minute-men dead or dying on the green. Reaching Concord, Pitcairnstroops were turned back at the
An American history . 19, 1775 expedition, and galloping ahead of the British troops, he rousedthe farmers on the way and warned the refugees. When thevan of the British column reached Lexington, they found a litdecompany of minutemen (militia ready to fight at a minutesnotice) drawn up on the village green under Captain British major Pitcairn ordered the rebels to came a volley of musket shots, apparently without themajors orders, and the British marched on, leaving eight minute-men dead or dying on the green. Reaching Concord, Pitcairnstroops were turned back at the rude bridge which arched theflood, and commenced the long retreat toward Boston, harassedby a deadly fire from behind stone walls and apple trees. Lord British Rule I2S Percy, with the main column, met the exhausted troops justbelow Lexington Green and conducted them safely within theBritish lines. The colonial militia, aroused for miles around,closed in upon Boston 16,000 strong and held Gage besiegedin his The Battle of LexingtonFrom a drawing by an eyewitness REFERENCES The Authority of Parliament in the Colonies: G. E. Howard, The Pre-limiiim-ies of the Revolution (American Nation Series), chaps, i-v; Sloane, The French War and the Revolution, chap, x; J. A. WooD-BURN, Causes of the American Revolution (John Hopkins Studies, SeriesX, No. iz); Lechys American Revolution, chap, i, pp. 1-49; Wm. Mac-Don ald,^^^ Chai-ters of American History i6ob-iyjS Nos. 53-56. Taxation without Representation: Justin Winsor, Narrative and Crit-ical History of America, Vol. VI, chap, i; John Fiske, The AmericanRevolution, Vol. I, chaps, i, ii; M. C. Tylee, Literary History of theAmerican Revolution, Vol. I; G. Otto Trevelyan, The American Revo-lution, Vol. I; A. B. Hart, American Histoiy told by Contemporaries,Vol. II, Nos. 138-152; Howard, chaps, vi-xv; MacDonald, The Punishment of Massachusetts: Fiske, chap, iii; Trevelyan,chap, iii; Howard, chaps, xv-xvii; Winsor,
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