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g. body of about eighteen hundred
men, made a halt, picked up many
Of their dead and took care of theiE
wounded. ~
two hours at Lexington, found 1t nee
essary to make q second retreat, car
rying with them many of their dead
and wounded They continued their
retreat from 3 Lexington4ito Charles
town with great precipitation, ana
their field pieces, our
people continued the pursuit, firing
neck (Which they reached little
after s,1nset), over which the enemy
passed. proceeded up 'Bunker's hill
and soon afterward went into the
Town, under the protection Of the I
Somerset Man-of-War of sixty-four
guns.
It appeared to be their design to
burn and destroy all before them;l
and nothing but our vigorous pursuit.
prevented their Internal purposes
from being put in execution.
(From the London Gazette Of Juna
10. 1775.1
Whitehall, June 10, 1775.-Lieutens
ant Mum Of the navy, arrived this
morning at Lord Dartmouth's, ana
brought letters from General Gage
Lord Percy and Lieutenant Colonel
Smith, containing the following pars y
ticulars of what passed on the nine. /
teenth Of April last between a detacnA
ment of the kings troops In the prov&l
ince of Massachusetts Bay, and sev@g
eral parties Of rebels, provincials. viz. s1
General Gage having received intel. i
Hgence of a quantity of military stores
being collected at Concord, for the
avowed purpose Of supplying q Dody1
Of troops to act in opposition to hie
H. OF q
the eighteenth of April, at night the3
Grenadiers of his army, and the Light
infantry under the command of L1eu-
tenant Colonel Smith Of the Tenth
regiment, and Major Pitcairn OF ne
Marines with orders to destroy the
said stores; and the next morning
eight companies Of the Fourth, the
same number Of the Twenty-third ana
Forty-ninth, and some Marines,
marched under the command Of LORD
Percy to support the other detach~
ment.
Lieutenant Colonel Smith Findings
after he had advanced some miles on
his march, that the country had been
ringing of bells, despatched six COM.
| panies Of Light infantry, in order TO
secure two bridges on different roads
beyond Concord, who, upon their ar
country people under arms, on a green
close to the road; and upon the kings
| troops marching up to them. in order
| to inquire the reason of their being
so assembled, they went off IN great
confusion, and several guns were fired
upon the kings troops from behind a
stone wall, and also from the meeting
house and other houses by which one
man was wounded and Major Pit
| CAIRNS horse shot in two places. In
consequence of this attack by the
rebels, the troops returned the fire and
killed several Of them. After which
the detachment marched on to Con-
cord without ANYTHING further hap
| pening, where they effected the pur-
pose for which they were sent, having
knocked off the trunnions Of three
| pieces Of iron ordnance, burnt some
| new gun carriages and great number
| of carriage wheels, and thrown into
| the river a great quantity OF Hour, gun
] powder, rnusketballs and other are
i ticles.
/ Concord, they were very much an
! moved. and had several men killed and
j wounded by the rebels firing from be-
| hind walls, bitches, trees and other
ambushes; but the brigade under the
j command Of Lord Percy, having Joined
cannon, the rebels We're for awhile
i dispersed: but as soon as the troops
resumed their march, they began to
i fire upon them from behind stone walls
I and houses and kept UP in that man
4 ner scattering fire during the whole
4 of their march of fifteen miles by
u wounded; and such was the cruelty
and barbarity Of the rebels, that they
I. scalped ard cut off the ears Of some
Of the Wounded men who fell into
their hands.