PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

MAPS.

AUTHORITIES.

IN PARLIAMENT.

THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.

BRITISH FORCES IN BOSTON.

THE BRITISH START FOR LEXINGTON AND CONCORD.

THE MESSENGERS OF ALARM.

FLIGHT OF HANCOCK AND ADAMS.

ALARMS IN OTHER PLACES.

LIEUT.-COL. SMITH'S ADVANCE THROUGH CAMBRIDGE.

LIEUT.-COL. SMITH'S ADVANCE THROUGH SOMERVILLE.

LIEUT.-COL. SMITH'S ADVANCE THROUGH CAMBRIDGE. (2)

LIEUT.-COL. SMITH'S ADVANCE THROUGH ARLINGTON.

LIEUT.-COL. SMITH'S ADVANCE THROUGH LEXINGTON.

THE OPENING BATTLE ON LEXINGTON COMMON.

LIEUT.-COL. SMITH'S ADVANCE THROUGH LINCOLN.

LIEUT.-COL. SMITH'S ADVANCE INTO CONCORD.

BATTLE AT NORTH BRIDGE IN CONCORD.

LIEUT.-COL. SMITH'S RETREAT THROUGH CONCORD.

LIEUT.-COL. SMITH'S RETREAT THROUGH LINCOLN.

LIEUT.-COL. SMITH'S RETREAT TO LEXINGTON VILLAGE.

EARL PERCY MARCHES TO REINFORCE LIEUT.-COL. SMITH.

PERCY'S RETREAT THROUGH ARLINGTON.

PERCY'S RETREAT THROUGH CAMBRIDGE.

PERCY'S RETREAT THROUGH SOMERVILLE.

PERCY'S ARRIVAL IN CHARLESTOWN.

AMERICAN KILLED, WOUNDED AND MISSING.

BRITISH KILLED, WOUNDED, PRISONERS AND MISSING. [316]

DISTANCES MARCHED BY THE BRITISH SOLDIERS.

ENGLISH FRIENDS AFTER THE BATTLE.

ERRATA

INDEX.

FOOTNOTES:

MUSTER ROLLS OF THE PARTICIPATING COMPANIES

PREFACE. (2)

LEXINGTON. Captain John Parker's Company.

CONCORD.

ACTON. Captain Isaac Davis's Company.

BEDFORD. Captain John Moore's Company.

LINCOLN. Captain William Smith's Company .

BILLERICA. Lieutenant Oliver Crosby's Company .

CHELMSFORD. Captain Oliver Barron's Company.

FRAMINGHAM. Captain Simon Edget's Company.

READING. Captain John Bacheller's Company.

SUDBURY. Captain Nathaniel Cudworth's Company.

WOBURN. Captain Samuel Belknap's Company.

STOW.

WESTFORD.

DRACUT.

CAMBRIDGE. Captain Samuel Thatcher's Company.

NEWTON. Captain Phinehas Cook's Company, under Command of John Marean, Captain-Lieutenant .

BROOKLINE. Captain Thomas White's Company.

WATERTOWN. Captain Samuel Barnard's Company.

MEDFORD. Captain Isaac Hall's Company.

MALDEN. Captain Benjamin Blaney's Company.

ROXBURY. Captain Lemuel Child's Company.

DEDHAM. Captain Eben Battle's Company.

NEEDHAM. Captain Aaron Smith's Company.

LYNN. Captain Nathaniel Bancroft's Company.

BEVERLY. Captain David Dodge's Company.

DANVERS. Captain Samuel Epes's Company.

ARLINGTON,

INDEX TO THE MUSTER ROLLS.

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