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NYJ-N.775.047
1 Jun 1775:212 (1691)
(The following is General Gage's account of the battle, sent
by him to the several governors on the continent; and
referred to in the answer, to Governor Trumbull's letter,
published in our last.) A circumstantioal account of an
attack that happened on the 19th of April, 1775, on his
Majesty's troops by a number of the people of the Province
of Massachusetts-Bay. On Tuesday the 18th of April, about
half past ten at night, Lieutenant Colonel Smith, of the
10th Regiment, embarked from the common at Boston, with the
Grenadiers and Light Infantry of the troops there, and
landed on the opposite side, from whence he began his march
towards Concord, where he was ordered to destroy a magazine
of military stores, . . . [9 more lines] (c) Soon after they
heard many signal guns, and the ringing of alarm bells
repeatedly, which convinced them that the country was rising
to oppose them,. . . [more]
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