. A brief history of the United States . ndrepresented every colony except Georgia. As yet few mem-bers had any idea of independence. The Congress simplyvoted that obedience was not due to any of the recent acts ofParliament, and sustained Massachusetts in her resistance. Itissued a protest against standing armies being kept in thecolonies without the consent of the people, and agreed tohold no intercourse with Great Britain. 1775- Battle of Lexington (April 19).—General Gage, learningthat the people were gathering mihtary stores at Concord,sent eight hundred men under Col. Smith and Major Pit
. A brief history of the United States . ndrepresented every colony except Georgia. As yet few mem-bers had any idea of independence. The Congress simplyvoted that obedience was not due to any of the recent acts ofParliament, and sustained Massachusetts in her resistance. Itissued a protest against standing armies being kept in thecolonies without the consent of the people, and agreed tohold no intercourse with Great Britain. 1775- Battle of Lexington (April 19).—General Gage, learningthat the people were gathering mihtary stores at Concord,sent eight hundred men under Col. Smith and Major Pitcairnto destroy them. The patriots of Boston, however, were on the use of their wharves to the Boston merchants. Aid and sympathy were receivedfrom all Bides. Schoharie, N. Y., sent five hundred and twenty-five bushels of wheat. I77SJ tMe revolutiokary war. 10-? alert, and hurried out messengers to alarm the country.*When the red-coats, as the British soldiers were called, reachedLexington, they found a company of minute men gathering. PUTNAM SUMMONED TO WAR. on the village green. Biding up, Pitcairn shouted, Disperse,you rebels; lay down your arms ! They hesitated. A skir-mish ensued, in which seven Americans—^the first martyrs ofthe Revolution—were killed. The British pushed on and destroyed the stores. Butalarmed by the gathering militia they hastily retreated. Itwas none too soon. The whole region flew to arms. Everyboy old enough to use a rifle hurried to avenge the death ofhis countrymen. From behind trees, fences, buildings, and ♦Paul Revere caused two lights to be hungup in the steeple of Christ were seen in Charlestown ; messengers set out, and he soon followed on hisfiunoos midnight ride. (Read Longfellows poem.) 108 EPOCH III. [1775- rocks, in front, flank and rear, so galling a fire was poured,that but for reinforcements from Boston, none of the Britishwould have reached the city alive. As it was, they lost nearlythree hundred men. Effects of the
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