[15] “Pitcairn rode in front and ... cried out: ‘Disperse, ye villains, ...; lay down your arms.’”—Idem, 293.
[16] “The main part of the countrymen stood motionless.”—Idem.
[17] “At this, Pitcairn discharged a pistol, and with a loud voice cried, ‘Fire.’”—Idem.
[18] “The order was instantly followed, first by a few guns ... then by a heavy close and deadly discharge”—Idem.
[19] “Jonas Parker (not the captain) ... had promised never to run from British troops, and he kept his vow ... he lay on the post which he took at the morning’s drum beat.”—Idem, pp. 293, 294.
[20] “Seven of the men of Lexington were killed; nine wounded.”—Idem.
[21] “In disparity of numbers, the common was a field of murder, not a battle; Parker therefore ordered his men to disperse. Then, and not till then, did a few of them return the British fire.”—Idem. Behind stone walls and buildings. See Lossing’s Pict. Field Book, vol. i., p. 524.
[22] “The British ... huzzaed thrice by way of triumph, and after ... less than thirty minutes, marched on for Concord.”—Bancroft’s U. S., vol vii., ch. 28, p. 297.
[23] “In Lincoln (after the affair at Concord) the minute-men of Lexington, commanded by John Parker, renewed the fight.”—Idem, p. 305.