[12] “In double file with trailed arms.”—_Lossing’s Pict. Field Book_, vol. i., p. 527. [13] “The British began to take up the planks.”—_Bancroft’s U. S._, vol. vii., ch. 28, p. 302. [14] “Major Buttrick called on them to desist.”—_Lossing’s Pict. Field Book_, vol. i., p. 190. [15] “A volley followed, and Isaac Davis and Abner Hosmer ... fell dead.”—_Bancroft’s U. S._, vol. vii., ch. 28, p. 303. [16] “Buttrick ... cried aloud: ... ‘Fire, fellow-soldiers, for God’s sake, fire!’... Two of the British fell.”—_Idem._ [17] “The British retreated in disorder toward the main body.”—_Idem._ [18] “In ... Concord, Smith ... showed by marches and counter-marches, his uncertainty of purpose. At last ... he left the town, to retreat the way he came.”—_Idem_, p. 304. [19] “The minute-men and militia ... ran over the hills, ... placed themselves in ambush, ... reinforced by men who were coming in from all around, and ... the chase of the English began. Among the foremost were the minute-men of Reading, ... of Billerica, ... the ... Sudbury company. The men from Woburn came up in great numbers and well armed.”—_Idem_, pp. 304, 305. [20] “Of the Americans, there were never more than four hundred together at any one time; but, as some grew tired, others took their places.”—_Idem._, p. 308. The first detachment of British troops numbered “not less than eight hundred.”—_Idem_, ch. 27, p. 288. [21] “Every piece of wood, every rock ... served as a lurking-place ... ‘the road was lined’ by an uninterrupted fire from behind stone walls and trees.”—_Idem_, p. 305. [22] “Two waggons, sent out to them with supplies, were waylaid and captured by Payson, the minister of Chelsea. From far and wide minute-men were gathering. The men of Dedham, ... from Essex, and the lower towns, ... The company from Danvers, ... lost eight men.... Below West Cambridge, the militia from Dorchester, Roxbury, and Brookline came up.”—_Idem_, pp. 307-9. [23] Lord Percy reinforced them with “about twelve hundred men.”—_Idem_, ch. 28, p. 306. [24] “West Cambridge, where Joseph Warren and William Heath, ... the latter a provincial general officer, gave ... organization to the resistance, and the fight grew sharper.”—_Idem_, p. 308. [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.