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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: succeeded on both sides, while the Americans remained in sight; and the British troops were then drawn up on the green to fire a volley and give a shout in honor of the victory. FIGHT AT CONCORP BRIDGE. Elated with its success at Lexington, the British army took up its march toward Concord. The intelligence of the projected expedition had been communicated to this town by Dr. Samuel Prescott; and from Concord had traveled onward in every direction. The interval was employed in removing a portion of the public stores to the neighboring towns, while the aged and infirm, the women and children, sought refuge in the surrounding woods. About seven o'clock in the morning, the glittering arms of the British column were seen advancing on the Lincoln road. A body of militia, from one hundred and fifty to two hundred men, who had taken post for observation on the heights above the entrance to the town, retire at the approach of thearmy of the enemy, first to the hill a little farther north, and then beyond the bridge. The British troops press forward into the town, and are drawn up in front of the court-house. Parties are ther ordered out to the various spots where the publia stores and arms were supposed to be deposited Much had been removed to places of safety. ani something was saved by the prompt and innoceiv artifices of individuals. The destruction of property and of arms was hasty and incomplete, and con sidered as the object of an enterprise of such fatal consequences, it stands in shocking contrast witli the waste of blood by which it was effected. It was the first care of the British coinmandei to cut off the approach of the Americans from tlu neighboring towns, by destroying or occupying tlu bridges. A party was immediately sent to tht south bridge and tore it up. A for...
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