Young people's history of the American Revolution . OQ 5 < u H & S *«- BO xh <! Q tmZ .3. — *Z 5 n < J S THE RESORT TO ARMS 39 When, one time in the spring of 1775, he heard throughhis spies that the minute-men had collected a supply ofmilitary stores at Concord, a little village about twentymiles distant from Boston, he ordered eight hundred ofhis regulars to march to the place and destroy all thepowder there, and with that order the war of the AmericanRevolution really began. This force was to march very quietly and go in thenight, so that the minute-men might not be able to learnof
Young people's history of the American Revolution . OQ 5 < u H & S *«- BO xh <! Q tmZ .3. — *Z 5 n < J S THE RESORT TO ARMS 39 When, one time in the spring of 1775, he heard throughhis spies that the minute-men had collected a supply ofmilitary stores at Concord, a little village about twentymiles distant from Boston, he ordered eight hundred ofhis regulars to march to the place and destroy all thepowder there, and with that order the war of the AmericanRevolution really began. This force was to march very quietly and go in thenight, so that the minute-men might not be able to learnof his plan until it was too late to save their stores; butthe friends of the colony were as watchful as the Britishgeneral himself, and by the time the force had started, thepeople were aware of what was going on. All throughthe night men went riding through the country, stoppingat the scattered farmhouses and rousing the inmates withthe startling cry, The regulars are coming. Signalswere also displayed, bells were rung, and when, just atsunrise on the eventful morning of April 19, 1775, t
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