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diff --git a/36536.txt b/36536.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ede8517 --- /dev/null +++ b/36536.txt @@ -0,0 +1,993 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Gage's Instructions, by +Thomas Gage and Ensign de Berniere + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Gage's Instructions + +Author: Thomas Gage + Ensign de Berniere + +Release Date: June 27, 2011 [EBook #36536] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GAGE'S INSTRUCTIONS *** + + + + +Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Joseph Cooper and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution + +Gage's Instructions + +Thomas Gage + +The New York Times & Arno Press + + +Reprinted from a microfilm copy in The American Antiquarian Society +Library + +Reprint Edition 1971 by Arno Press Inc. + +LC# 78-140865 +ISBN 0-405-01198-9 + +Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution, Series III +ISBN for complete set: 0-405-01187-3 + +Manufactured in the United States of America + + + + +GENERAL GAGE's + +INSTRUCTIONS, + +Of 22d _February_ 1775. + +To Captain _Brown_ and Ensign _D'Berniere_, (of the army under his +command) whom he ordered to take a sketch of the roads, passes, +heights, &c. from _Boston_ to _Worcester_, and to make other +observations: + +With a _curious_ + +NARRATIVE + +Of OCCURRENCES during their mission, Wrote by the _Ensign_. + +Together with an ACCOUNT of their doings, in consequence of further +Orders and Instructions from General _Gage_, of the 20th _March_ +following, to proceed to _Concord_, to reconnoitre and find out the +state of the provincial magazines; what number of cannon, &c. they +have, and in what condition. + +ALSO, + +An ACCOUNT of the Transactions of the _British_ troops, from the time +they marched out of _Boston_, on the evening of the 18th, 'till their +_confused_ retreat back, on the _ever memorable Nineteenth of April +1775_; and a Return of their killed, wounded and missing on that +_auspicious day_, as made to Gen. _Gage_. + +[Left in town by a _British_ Officer previous to the evacuation of it +by the enemy, and now printed for the information and amusement of the +_curious_.] + + +_BOSTON_ +Printed, and to be sold, by J. GILL, in Court Street. +1779. + + + + +INSTRUCTIONS, &_c._ + + +_Boston, February_ 22, 1775. + +GENTLEMEN, + +You will go through the counties of _Suffolk_ and _Worcester_, taking a +sketch of the country as you pass; it is not expected you should make +out regular plans and surveys, but mark out the roads and distances +from town to town, as also the situation and nature of the country; all +passes must be particularly laid down, noticing the length and breadth +of them, the entrance in and going out of them, and whether to be +avoided by taking other routes. + +The rivers also to be sketched out, remarking their breadth and depth +and the nature of their banks on both sides, the fords, if any, and the +nature of their bottoms, many of which particulars may be learned of +the country people. + +You will remark the heights you meet with, whether the ascents are +difficult or easy; as also the woods and mountains, with the height and +nature of the latter, whether to be got round or easily past over. + +The nature of the country to be particularly noticed, whether inclosed +or open; if the former, what kind of inclosures, and whether the +country admits of making roads for troops on the right or left of the +main road, or on the sides. + +You will notice the situation of the towns and villages, their churches +and church-yards, whether they are advantageous spots to take post in, +and capable of being made defencible. + +If any places strike you as proper for encampments, or appear strong by +nature, you will remark them particularly, and give reasons for your +opinions. + +It would be useful if you cou'd inform yourselves of the necessaries +their different counties could supply, such as provisions, forage, +straw, &c. the number of cattle, horses, &c. in the several townships. + +_I am, + +Gentlemen, + +your most obedient humble servant_, + +THOMAS GAGE. + +_To Capt._ Brown _52d regiment, and } + Ensign_ D'Berniere _10th regiment_. } + +(COPY) + + + + +NARRATIVE, &_c._ + + +The latter end of _February_ 1775, Capt. _Brown_ and myself, received +orders to go through the counties of _Suffolk_ and _Worcester_, and +sketch the roads as we went, for the information of Gen. _Gage_, as he +expected to have occasion to march troops through that country the +ensuing spring. + +We set out from _Boston_ on Thursday, disguised like countrymen, in +brown cloaths and reddish handkerchiefs round our necks; at the ferry +of _Charlestown_, we met a sentry of the 52d regiment, but Capt. +_Brown's_ servant, whom we took along with us, bid him not take any +notice of us, so that we passed unknown to _Charlestown_. From that we +went to _Cambridge_, a pretty town, with a college built of brick, the +ground is entirely level on which the town stands. We next went to +_Watertown_, and were not suspected, it is a pretty large town for +_America_, but would be looked upon as a village in _England_; a little +out of this town we went into a tavern, a Mr. _Brewer_'s, a whig, we +called for dinner, which was brought in by a black woman, at first she +was very civil, but afterwards began to eye us very attentively; she +then went out and a little after returned, when we observed to her that +it was a very fine country, upon which she answered so it is, and we +have got brave fellows to defend it, and if you go up any higher you +will find it so--This disconcerted us a good deal, and we imagined she +knew us from our papers which we took out before her, as the General +had told us to pass for surveyors; however, we resolved not to sleep +there that night, as we had intended, accordingly we paid our bill +which amounted to two pounds odd shillings, but in was old tenor. After +we had left the house we enquired of _John_, our servant, what she had +said, he told us that she knew Capt. _Brown_ very well, that she had +seen him five years before at _Boston_, and knew him to be an officer, +and that she was sure I was one also, and told _John_ that he was a +regular--he denied it; but she said she knew our errant was to take a +plan of the country; that she had seen the river and road through +_Charlestown_ on the paper; she also advised him to tell us not to go +any higher, for if we did we should meet with very bad usage: Upon this +we called a council, and agreed that if we went back we should appear +very foolish, as we had a great number of enemies in town, because the +General had chose to employ us in preference to them; it was absolutely +necessary to push on to _Worcester_, and run all risk rather than go +back until we were forced.--Accordingly we continued our rout and went +about six miles further; we met a country fellow driving a team, and a +fellow with him whom we suspected to be a deserter; they both seemed +very desirous to join company with us and told us, upon our saying we +were going towards _Worcester_, that they were going our way: As we +began to suspect something we stopped at a tavern at the sign of the +golden-ball, with an intention to get a drink and so proceed; but upon +our going in the landlord pleased us so much, as he was not +inquisitive, that we resolved to lye there that night; so we ordered +some fire to be made in the room we were in, and a little after to get +us some coffee; he told us we might have what we pleased, either tea or +coffee. We immediately found out with whom we were, and were not a +little pleased to find, on some conversation, that he was a friend to +government; he told us that he had been very ill-used by them some time +before; but that since he had shewed them that he was not to be +bullied, they had left him pretty quiet.--We then asked him for the +inns that were on the road between his house and _Worcester_, he +recommended us to two, one at about nine miles from his house, a Mr. +_Buckminster_'s, and another at _Worcester_, a namesake of his own, a +Mr. _Jones_. The second day was very rainy and a kind of frost, with it +however we resolved to set off, and accordingly we proceeded to Mr. +_Buckminster_'s; we met nothing extraordinary on the road; we passed +some time in sketching a pass that lay in our road, and of consequence +were very dirty and wet on our arrival: On our entering the house we +did not much like the appearance of things; we asked for dinner and +they gave us some sausages, we praised every thing exceedingly, which +pleased the old woman of the house much; when we told them we intended +staying the night, they gave us a room to ourselves, which was what we +wanted; after being there some time we found we were pretty safe, as by +that time we perceived that the _coate de pay_'s was not a dangerous +one; of consequence we felt very happy, and _Brown_, _I_, and our man +_John_, made a very hearty supper; for we always treated him as our +companion since our adventure with the black woman. We slept there that +night, and the next morning; being a very fine one, we resolved to push +on for _Worcester_, which was about thirty miles from us; we proceeded +about nine miles without any thing extraordinary happening, except +meeting two men whom we suspected to be deserters. We then dined in the +woods on a tongue and some cherry brandy we brought with us, and +changed our stockings, which refreshed us much, our feet being very +wet. We then travelled through a very fine country, missed our way and +went to _Southborough_; we were obliged to turn back a mile to get the +right road. We then passed through _Shrewsbury_; all a fine open +cultivated country. We came into a pass about four miles from +_Worcester_, where we were obliged to stop to sketch. We arrived at +_Worcester_ at five o'clock in the evening, very much fatigued; the +people in the town did not take notice of us as we came in, so that we +got safe to Mr. _Jones_'s tavern; on our entrance he seemed a little +sour, but it wore off by degrees and we found him to be our friend, +which made us very happy; we dined and supped without any thing +happening out of the common run. The next day being Sunday, we could +not think of travelling, as it was contrary to the custom of the +country; nor dare we stir out until the evening because of meeting, and +no-body is allowed to walk the streets during divine service, without +being taken up and examined; so that thinking we could not stand the +examination so well, we thought it prudent to stay at home, where we +wrote and corrected our sketches. The landlord was very attentive to +us, and on our asking what he could give us for breakfast, he told us +tea or any thing else we chose--that was an open confession, what he +was; but for fear he might be imprudent, we did not tell him who we +were, tho' we were certain he knew it. In the evening we went round the +town and on all the hills that command it, sketched every thing we +desired, and returned to the town without being seen. That evening +about eight o'clock the landlord came in and told us there were two +gentlemen who wanted to speak with us; we asked him who they were? on +which he said we wou'd be safe in their company; we said we did not +doubt that, as we hoped that two gentlemen who travelled merely to see +the country and stretch our limbs, as we had lately come from tea, +could not meet with any thing else but civility, when we behaved +ourselves properly; he told us he would come in again in a little time, +and perhaps we wou'd change our minds, and then left us;--an hour after +he returned, and told us the gentlemen were gone, but had begged him to +let us know, as they knew as to be officers of the army, that all their +friends of government at _Petersham_ were disarmed by the rebels, and +that they threatened to do the same at _Worcester_ in a very little +time; he sat and talked politicks, and drank a bottle of wine with +us--and also told us that none but a few friends to government knew we +were in town; we said it was very indifferent to us whether they did or +not, tho' we thought very differently; however, as we imagined we had +staid long enough in that town, we resolved to set off at day-break the +next morning and get to _Framingham_; accordingly off we set, after +getting some roast beef and brandy from our landlord, which was very +necessary on a long march, and prevented us going into houses where +perhaps they might be too inquisitive; we took a road we had not come, +and that led us to the pass four miles from _Worcester_; we went on +unobserved by any one until we passed _Shrewsbury_, where we were +overtaken by a horseman who examined us very attentively, and +especially me, whom he looked at from head to foot as if he wanted to +know me again; after he had taken his observations he rode off pretty +hard and took the _Marlborough_ road, but by good luck we took the +_Framingham_ road again to be more perfect in it, as we thought it +would be the one made use of. We arrived at _Buckminster_'s tavern +about six o'clock that evening, the company of militia were exercising +near the house, and an hour after they came and performed their feats +before the windows of the room we were in; we did not feel very easy at +seeing such a number so very near us; however, they did not know who we +were, and took little or no notice of us--After they had done their +exercise, one of their commanders spoke a very eloquent speech, +recommending patience, coolness and bravery, (which indeed they much +wanted) particularly told them they would always conquer if they did +not break, and recommended them to charge us cooly, and wait for our +fire, and every thing would succeed with them--quotes _Caesar_ and +_Pompey_, brigadiers _Putnam_ and _Ward_, and all such great men; put +them in mind of _Cape-Breton_, and all the battles they had gained for +his majesty in the last war, and observed that the regulars must have +been ruined but for them.--After so learned and spirited an harangue, +he dismissed the parade, and the whole company came into the house and +drank until nine o'clock, and then returned to their respective homes +full of pot-valour. We slept there that night and no-body in the house +suspected us. Next morning we set off for _Weston_, had a very +agreeable day, having fine weather and a beautiful country to travel +through; we met nothing extraordinary on the road, no-body knew us, and +we were asked very few questions: On our arrival at Mr. _Jones_'s we +met with a very welcome reception, he being our friend; we received +several hints from the family not to attempt to go any more into the +country; but as we had succeeded so well heretofore, we were resolved +so go the _Sudbury_ road, (which was the main road that led to +_Worcester_) and go as far as the thirty-seven mile-stone, where we had +left the main road and taken the _Framingham_ road. We slept at +_Jones_'s that night, and got all our sketches together and sent them +to _Boston_ with our man, so that if they did stop and search us, they +would not get our papers. The next day was very cloudy and threatened +bad weather, towards twelve o'clock it snowed; we dined soon in hopes +the weather would clear up.--At two o'-clock it ceased snowing a +little, and we resolved to set off for _Marlborough_, which was about +sixteen miles off; we found the roads very bad, every step up to our +ankles; we passed through _Sudbury_, a very large village, near a mile +long, the causeway lies across a great swamp, or overflowing of the +river _Sudbury_, and commanded by a high ground on the opposite side; +nobody took the least notice of us until we arrived within three miles +of _Marlborough_, (it was snowing hard all the while) when a horseman +overtook us and asked us from whence we came, we said from _Weston_, he +asked if we lived there, we said no; he then asked us where we resided, +and as we found there was no evading his questions, we told him we +lived at _Boston_; he then asked us where we were going, we told him to +_Marlborough_ to see a friend, (as we intended to go to Mr. _Barnes_'s, +a gentleman to whom we were recommended, and a friend to government) he +then asked us if we were in the army, we said not, but were a good deal +alarmed at his asking us that question; he asked several rather +impertinent questions, and then rode on for _Marlborough_, as we +suppose, to give them intelligence there of our coming,--for on our +entering the town, the people came out of their houses (tho' it snowed +and blew very hard) to look at us, in particular a baker asked Capt. +_Brown_ where are you going master, he answered on to see Mr. +_Barnes_.--We proceeded to Mr. _Barnes_'s and on our beginning to make +an apology for taking the liberty to make use of his house and +discovering to him that we were officers in disguise, he told us we +need not be at the pains of telling him, that he knew our situation, +that we were very well known (he was afraid) by the town's people.--We +begged he would recommend some tavern where we should be safe, he told +us we could be safe no where but in his house; that the town was very +violent, and that we had been expected at Col. _Williams_'s the night +before, where there had gone a party of liberty people to meet us,--(we +suspected, and indeed had every reason to believe, that the horseman +that met us and took such particular notice of me the morning we left +_Worcester_, was the man who told them we should be at _Marlborough_ +the night before, but our taking the _Framingham_ road when he had +parted us, deceived him:)--Whilst we were talking the people were +gathering in little groups in every part of the town.--Mr. _Barnes_ +asked us who had spoke to us on our coming into the town, we told him a +baker; he seemed a little startled at that, told us he was a very +mischievous fellow, and that there was a deserter at his house; Capt. +_Brown_ asked the man's name, he said it was _Swain_, that he had been +a drummer; _Brown_ knew him too well, as he was a man of his own +company, and had not been gone above a month--so we found we were +discovered.--We asked Mr. _Barnes_ if they did get us into their hands, +what they would do with us; he did not seem to like to answer; we asked +him again, he then said we knew the people very well, that we might +expect the worst of treatment from them--Immediately after this, Mr. +_Barnes_ was called out; he returned a little after and told us the +doctor of the town had come to tell him he was come to sup with +him--(now this fellow had not been within Mr. _Barnes_'s doors for two +years before, and came now for no other business than to see and betray +us)--_Barnes_ told him he had company and could not have the pleasure +of attending him that night; upon this the fellow stared about the +house and asked one of Mr. _Barnes_'s children who her father had got +with him, the child innocently answered that she had asked her pappa, +but he told her it was not her business; he then went, I suppose, to +tell the rest of his crew.--When we found we were in that situation, we +resolved to lie down for two or three hours, and set off at twelve +o'clock at night; so we got some supper on the table and were just +beginning to eat, when _Barnes_ (who had been making enquiry of his +servants) found they intended to attack us, and then he told us plainly +he was very uneasy for us, that we could be no longer in safety in that +town: upon which we resolved to set off immediately, and asked Mr. +_Barnes_ if there was no road round the town, so that we might not be +seen; he took us out of his house by the stables, and directed us a bye +road which was to lead us a quarter of a mile from the town, it snowed +and blew as much as ever I see it in my life; however, we walked pretty +fast, fearing we should be pursued; at first we felt much fatigued, +having not been more than twenty minutes at Mr. _Barnes_'s to refresh +ourselves, and the roads (if possible) were worse than when we came; +but in a little time after it wore off; and we got without being +perceived, as far as the hills that command the causeway at _Sudbury_, +and went into a little wood where we eat a bit of bread that we took +from Mr. _Barnes_'s, and eat a little snow to wash it down.--After that +we preceded about one hundred yards, when a man came out of a house and +said those words to Capt. _Brown_, "What do you think will become of +you now," which startled us a good deal, thinking we were betrayed.--We +resolved to push on at all hazards, but expected to be attacked on the +causeway; however we met no-body there, so began to think it was +resolved to stop us in _Sudbury_, which town we entered when we passed +the causeway; about a quarter of a mile in the town we met three or +four horsemen, from whom we expected a few shot, when we came nigh they +opened to the right and left and quite crossed the road, however they +let us pass through them without taking any notice, their opening being +only chance; but our apprehensions made us interpret every thing +against us.--At last we arrived at our friend _Jones_'s again, very +much fatigued, after walking thirty-two miles between two o'clock and +half-after ten at night, through a road that every step we sunk up to +the ankles, and it blowing and drifting snow all the way--_Jones_ said +he was glad to see us back, as he was sure we should meet with +ill-usage in that part of the country, as they had been watching for us +sometime; but said he found we were so deaf to his hints, that he did +not like to say any thing for fear we should have taken it ill: we +drank a bottle of mulled Madeira wine, which refreshed us very much, +and went to bed and slept as sound as men could do, that were very much +fatigued. The next morning, after breakfast, we set off for _Boston_. +_Jones_ shewed us a road that took us a quarter of a mile below +_Watertown_ bridge, as we did not chuse to go through that town. We +arrived at _Boston_ about twelve o'clock, and met General _Gage_ and +General _Haldiman_, with their aid-de-camps, walking out on the neck, +they did not know us until we discovered ourselves; we besides met +several officers of our acquaintance, who did not know us. + +A few days after our return, Mr. _Barnes_ came to town from +_Marlborough_, and told us, immediately on our quitting the town, the +committee of correspondence came to his house and demanded us; he told +them we were gone; they then searched his house from top to bottom, +looked under the beds and in their cellars, and when they found we were +gone, they told him if they had caught us in his house they would have +pulled it about his ears.--They then sent horsemen after us, every +road; but as we had the start of them, and the weather being so very +bad, they either did not overtake us, or missed us. Mr. _Barnes_ told +them we were not officers, but relations of his wife's, from +_Penobscot_, and were gone to _Lancaster_; that, perhaps, might have +deceived them. + + * * * * * + +_Account of the proceedings of the aforesaid officers, in consequence +of further orders end instructions from General_ Gage, _of the 20th +March following; with occurrences during their mission_. + +The twentieth of _March_ Captain _Brown_ and myself received orders to +set out for _Concord_, and examine the road and situation of the town; +and also to get what information we could relative to what quantity of +artillery and provisions. We went through _Roxbury_ and _Brookline_, +and came into the main road between the thirteen and fourteen +mile-stones in the township of _Weston_; we went through part of the +pass at the eleven mile-stone, took the _Concord_ road, which is seven +miles from the main road. We arrived there without any kind of insult +being offered us, the road is high to the right and low to the left, +woody in most places, and very close and commanded by hills frequently. +The town of _Concord_ lies between hills that command it entirely; +there is a river runs through it, with two bridges over it, in summer +it is pretty dry; the town is large and covers a great tract of ground, +but the houses are not close together but generally in little groups. +We were informed that they had fourteen pieces of cannon (ten iron and +four brass) and two cohorns, they were mounted but in so bad a manner +that they could not elevate them more than they were, that is, they +were fixed to one elevation, their iron cannon they kept in a house in +town, their brass they had concealed in some place behind the town, in +a wood. They had also a store of flour, fish, salt and rice; and a +magazine of powder and cartridges. They fired their morning gun, and +mounted a guard of ten men at night. We dined at the house of a Mr. +_Bliss_, a friend to government; they had sent him word they would not +let him go out of town alive that morning; however, we told him if he +would come with us we would take care of him, as we were three and all +well armed,--he consented and told us he could shew us another road, +called the _Lexington_ road. We set out and crossed the bridge in the +town, and of consequence left the town on the contrary side of the +river to what we entered it. The road continued very open and good for +six miles, the next five a little inclosed, (there is one very bad +place in this five miles) the road good to _Lexington_. You then come +to _Menotomy_, the road still good; a pond or lake at _Menotomy_. You +then leave _Cambridge_ on your right, and fall into the main road a +little below _Cambridge_, and so to _Charlestown_; the road is very +good almost all the way. + +In the town of _Concord_, a woman directed us to Mr. _Bliss_'s house; a +little after she came in crying, and told us they swore if she did not +leave the town, they would tar and feather her for directing Tories in +their road. + + * * * * * + +Transactions _of the_ British _troops previous to, and at the Battle +of_ Lexington; _with a Return of their killed, wounded and missing, as +made to General_ Gage. + +On the night of the 18th of _April_, 1774 at nine o'clock, the +grenadiers and light-infantry of the army at _Boston_, received orders +to embark immediately under the command of Col. _Smith_, in the men of +war's boats, and proceed according to his directions. They embarked at +the common in _Boston_, and crossed to the shore lying between +_Charlestown_ and _Cambridge_, where they landed and received a day's +provisions: They began their march about twelve o'clock for _Concord_, +that being the place they were ordered to go to, for the purpose +of destroying some military stores laid up there by the rebels. The +troops received no interruption in their march until they arrived at +_Lexington_, a town eleven miles from _Boston_, where there were about +150 rebels drawn out in divisions, with intervals as wide at the front +of the divisions; the light-infantry who marched in front halted, and +Major _Pitcairn_ came up immediately and cried out to the rebels to +throw down their arms and disperse, which they did not do; he called +out a second time, but to no purpose; upon which he ordered our +light-infantry to advance and disarm them, which they were doing, when +one of the rebels fired a shot, our soldiers returned the fire and +killed about fourteen of them; there was only one of the 10th +light-infantry received a shot through his leg; some of them got into +the church and fired from it, but were soon drove out. We then +continued our march for _Concord_, and arrived there between nine and +ten o'clock in the morning of the 19th _April_, the light-infantry +marched on the hills that lay the length of the town, and the +grenadiers took the lower road immediately on our arrival; Capt. +_Parsons_ of the 10th, was dispatched with six light-companies to take +possession of a bridge that lay three quarters of a mile from +_Concord_, and I was ordered to shew him the road there, and also to +conduct him to a house where there was some cannon and other stores +hid; when we arrived at the bridge, three companies under the command +of Capt. _Lowry_ of the 43rd, were left to protect it, these three +companies were not close together, but situated so as to be able to +support each other; we then proceeded to Col. _Barrett_'s, where these +stores were, we did not find so much as we expected, but what there was +we destroyed; in the mean time Capt. _Lowry_ and his party were +attacked by about 1500 rebels and drove from the bridge, three officers +were wounded and one killed, three soldiers were killed and a number +wounded, notwithstanding they let Capt. _Parsons_ with his three +companies return, and never attacked us; they had taken up some of the +planks of the bridge, but we got over; had they destroyed it we were +most certainly all lost; however, we joined the main body. Col. _Smith_ +during our absence, had sent Capt. _Pole_ of 10th regiment, to destroy +some provisions and cannon that were lodged in another part of the +town, he knock'd the trunnions off three iron 24 pound cannon and burnt +their carriages; they also destroyed a quantity of flour, and some +barrels of trenchers and spoons of wood for their camp. Upon the +different detachment's joining the main body, and after getting some +horses and chaises for the wounded, we began the march to return to +_Boston_, about twelve o'clock in the day, in the same order of march, +only our flankers were more numerous and further from the main body; +all the hills on each side of us were covered with rebels--there could +not be less than 5000; so that they kept the road always lined and a +very hot fire on us without intermission; we at first kept our order +and returned their fire as hot as we received it, but when we arrived +within a mile of _Lexington_, our ammunition began to fail, and the +light companies were so fatigued with flanking they were scarce able to +act, and a great number of wounded scarce able to get forward, made a +great confusion; Col. _Smith_ (our commanding-officer) had received a +wound through his leg, a number of officers were also wounded, so that +we began to run rather than retreat in order--the whole behaved with +amazing bravery, but little order; we attempted to stop the men and +form them two deep, but to no purpose, the confusion increased rather +than lessened: At last, after we got though _Lexington_, the officers +got to the front and presented their bayonets, and told the men if they +advanced they should die: Upon this they began to form under a very +heavy fire; but at that instant, the first brigade joined us, +consisting of the 4th, 23d, and 47th regiments, and two divisions of +marines, under the command of Brigadier-General Lord _Percy_; he +brought two field-pieces with him, which were immediately brought to +bear upon the rebels, and soon silenced their fire.--After a little +firing the whole halted for about half an hour to rest. Lord _Percy_ +then made the light-infantry march in front, the grenadiers next, and +the first brigade brought up the rear and sent out flankers; the rebels +still kept firing on us, but very lightly until we came to _Menotomy_, +a village with a number of houses in little groups extending about half +a mile, out of these houses they kept a very heavy fire, but our troops +broke into them and killed vast numbers; the soldiers shewed great +bravery in this place, forcing houses from whence came a heavy fire, +and killing great numbers of the rebels. At about seven o'clock in the +evening we arrived at _Charlestown_, they kept up a scattering fire at +us all the way; at _Charlestown_ we took possession of a hill that +commanded the town, the Selectmen of which sent to Lord _Percy_ to let +him know that if he would not attack the town, they would take care +that the troops should not be molested, and also they would do all in +their power for to get us across the ferry; the _Somerset_ man of war +lay there at that time, and all her boats were employed first in +getting over the wounded, and after them the rest of the troops; the +piquets of 10th regiment, and some more troops, were sent over to +_Charlestown_ that night to keep every thing quiet, and returned next +day. The rebels shut up the neck, placed sentinels there, and took +prisoner an officer of the 64th regiment that was going to join his +regiment at _Castle-William_.--So that in the course of two days, from +a plentiful town, we were reduced to the disagreeable necessity of +living on salt provisions, and fairly blocked up in _Boston_. + + * * * * * + +RETURN _of the killed, wounded and missing, on the 19th of_ April, +1775, _as made to General_ Gage. + + KILLED. + + IVth regiment, Lieut. _Knight_, at _Menotomy_. + XLIIId, ditto, Lieut. _Hull_, bridge beyond _Concord_. + + WOUNDED. + + IVth regiment, Lieut. _Gould_, bridge beyond _Concord_. + Vth, ditto, Lieut. _Hauxshaw_, near _Lexington_. + ditto, Lieut. _Cox_, ditto. + ditto, Lieut. _Baker_, ditto. + Xth ditto, Lieut. Col. _Smith_, ditto. + ditto, Lieut. _Kelly_, bridge beyond _Concord_. + ditto, Ensign _Lester_, near _Concord_. + XXIIId ditto, Lieut. Col. _Bernard_, _Menotomy_. + XXXVIIId do. Lieut. _Sunderland_, bridge _Concord_. + XLVIIth ditto, Ensign _Baldwin_, near _Lexington_. + ditto, Ensign _McCloud_, ditto. + MARINES. {Capt. _Souter_, and } near _Lexington_. + {Lieut. _Potter_ } + + PRISONERS. + + IVth regiment, Lieut. _Gould_. + LXIVth ditto, Lieut. _Hamilton_. + MARINES. Lieut. _Potter_. + + _Killed. Wounded. Missing._ + Officers 2 13 3 + Serjeants 2 7 1 + Drummers 1 0 1 + Rank and File 68 154 21 + -- --- -- + _Total_, 73 174 26 + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Gage's Instructions, by +Thomas Gage and Ensign de Berniere + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GAGE'S INSTRUCTIONS *** + +***** This file should be named 36536.txt or 36536.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/6/5/3/36536/ + +Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Joseph Cooper and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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