[25] “The Americans pressed upon the rear of the fugitives, whose retreat could not have been more precipitate ... had Pickering with his fine regiment from Salem and Marblehead been alert enough to have intercepted them in front ... they must have surrendered.”—Idem, p. 309.
[26] See Lossing’s Field Book, vol. 1, p. 528, etc.; also Bancroft’s U. S., vol. vii., ch. 28, p. 308.
[27] According to Lossing, the British lost sixty-five killed, one hundred and eighty wounded, and twenty-eight prisoners; the Americans fifty-nine killed, thirty-one wounded, and fifty missing.—See Lossing’s Pict. Field Book, vol. 1, p. 530. “The loss of the British in killed, wounded, and missing was two hundred and seventy-three.... Forty-nine Americans were killed, thirty-nine wounded, and five missing.”—Bancroft’s U. S., vol. vii., ch. 28, p. 309.
[28] “The guns of the ships of war ... saved them ... while they were ferried across Charles River.”—Idem.
[29] Mrs. Moulton extinguished the fire at the Concord court-house.—Lossing’s Pict. Field Book, vol. i., p. 526.
[30] “Heedless of his own danger, Samuel Adams ... exclaimed: ‘Oh! what a glorious morning is this!’ for he saw that his country’s independence was ... hastening on.”—Bancroft’s U. S., vol. vii., ch. 27, p. 296. “Adams and Hancock, whose proscription had already been divulged ... were compelled by persuasion to retire toward Woburn.”—Idem, p. 292.
ETHAN ALLEN.
Ticonderoga, May 10, 1775.
The bell that rang at Lexington
Had call’d our men to arms;