Young folks' history of the United States . ho were stationed Isaac Davis of Acton said proudly, I have nt aman that is afraid to go; and he and his companymarched at the head. When they reached the bridge, the British soldiersfired ; and Davis fell dead. Then Major Buttrickcalled, Fire ! for Gods sake, fire ! Then the Ameri-cans fired ; and the regulars retreated in great disorder,one man being killed, and several wounded. But theAmericans knew that they were too few to attack themain body, until it should have set out on its return. When the British troops had destroyed all the m
Young folks' history of the United States . ho were stationed Isaac Davis of Acton said proudly, I have nt aman that is afraid to go; and he and his companymarched at the head. When they reached the bridge, the British soldiersfired ; and Davis fell dead. Then Major Buttrickcalled, Fire ! for Gods sake, fire ! Then the Ameri-cans fired ; and the regulars retreated in great disorder,one man being killed, and several wounded. But theAmericans knew that they were too few to attack themain body, until it should have set out on its return. When the British troops had destroyed all the mill- CONCORD, LEXINGTON, AND BUNKER HILL. i8i n^] of the ^ hey British. tary stores they could find at Concord, they prepared The retreatto return, carrying with them their wounded,were now sixteen miles from Boston, and they were notto go back as easily as they came. The guns and bellshad roused the whole country round; and men camehurrying from all directions, commonly in their shirt-sleeves, without order or discipline, but with guns in. RETREAT OF THE BRITISH FROM CONCORD. their hands ; and every man was ready to shelter himselfbehind a stone wall or a tree. A British officer wroteafterwards, that it seemed as if men had dropped fromthe clouds. Sometimes there were companies of minute-men, and at other times only single farmers. Everymile that the tired English soldiers marched from Con-cord to Lexington, they had more and more opponents, 182 YOUNG folks UNITED STATES. who kept firing from behind walls and trees; so thatmen were constantly falling, wounded or killed. At The retreat, last the British soldiers fairly ran. There was greatconfusion. Their ammunition was almost gone ; andthey would have had to surrender, had not Lord Percymarched out to meet them with reinforcements, andformed his troops into a hollow square at this square the tired fugitives ran, and were safeat last. They had to lie down for rest on the ground, anEnglish historian says, their to
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