Raynor HCA 2014-01
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Newspaper, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, June 1775, 56pp., disbound, fine. A 2-3/4 page report under “American Affairs” provides a first hand account of the battle of Lexington-Concord. It opens “The late action at Concord, between his majesty's forces and the provincials, having been variously related,we have here collected the most authentic particulars of that unhappy affair. ... General Gage having received intelligence of a large quantity of military stores being collected at Concord, for the avowed purpose of supplying a body of troops to act in opposition to his majesty's government, detached, on the 18th of April at night, the grenadiers of his army and the light infantry, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Smith, of the 10th regiment, and Major Piteairne of the marines, whh orders to destroy the said stores; ... he had advanced some miles on his march, that the country had been alarmed by the firing of guns and ringing of bells, dispatched six companies of light infantry, in order to secure two bridges on different roads beyond Concord, who, upon their arrival at Lexington, found a body of the country people drawn up under arms on a green close to the road ... several guns were fired upon the king's troops from behind a stone wall, and also from the meeting-house and other houses, by which one man was wounded, and Major Pitcairn's horse shot in two places. In consequence of this attack by the rebels, the troops returned the fire, and killed several of them ... On the return of the troops from Concord, they were very much annoyed, and had several men killed and wounded, by the rebels firing from behind walls, ditches, trees, and other ambushes; but the brigade under the command of Lord Percy having joined them at Lexington, with two pieces of cannon, the rebels were for a while dispersed: but, as soon as the troops resumed their march, they began again to fire upon them from behind stone walls and houses, and kept up in that manner a scattering fire during the whole of their march of 15 miles, by which means several were killed and wounded and such was the cruelty and barbarity of the rebels, that they scalped and cut off the ears of some of the wounded men, who fell into their hands. ...”
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