Angels & Patriots by Salina B Baker

Author:Salina B Baker [Baker, Salina B]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780998755809
Publisher: Culper Press
Published: 2017-12-04T22:00:00+00:00

Far ahead of the angels and the weary men who followed them, the British column led by, Lord Hugh Percy, Colonel Francis Smith, Major John Pitcairn, Captain Munday Pole, Captain Leslie Parsons, Captain Walter Laurie, and Ensign Henry de Berniere marched the road to madness through Menotomy.

The stretch of road through Menotomy marked the deadliest fighting that day. The British soldiers ransacked homes, searching for and killing rebels hiding inside. American civilians perished defending their families and property.

The Danvers militia, under the command of Captain Daniel Epes, suffered horrible casualties, yet those men, in conjunction with the Cambridge- Watertown militias under the command of Major Fergus Driscoll, and the Menotomy minutemen under the command of Captain Samuel Whittmore, maintained ferocious pressure on the British.

When the day came to an end, the British suffered 73 dead, 174 wounded, and 26 missing. The American casualties totaled 49 dead, 40 wounded, and 5 missing.

Lord Hugh Percy led his surviving soldiers through Charlestown Neck on the evening of April 19.

As the waning gibbous moon rose over Boston, rebels and British soldiers alike wondered, what have we done?

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