Fiction And Truth About the Battle On Lexington Common April 19 1775
Fiction And Truth About the Battle On Lexington Common April 19 1775
Frank Warren Coburn
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Smith's report for the entire ex- pedition is equally as interesting and valuable, and not particularly unfair in any part of it. He signed it: — "F. Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel loth Foot. " Major Pitcairn's Version. Richard Frothingham, Jr. , in his History of the Siege of Boston, second edition, quotes Stiles, in his manuscript diary, as to Pitcairn's version of the beginning of the firing: — LEXINGTON COMMON 37 "Ezra Stiles, D. D. , President of Yale College, in his Diary, under date of 1775, ...August 19 — says: 'Major Pitcairn, who was a good man in a bad cause, insisted upon it, to the day of his death, that the colonists fired first; and that he commanded not to fire, and endeavored to stay and stop the firing after it began : but then he told this with such circumstances as convince me that he was deceived, though on the spot. He does not say that he saw the colonists fire first. Had he said it, I would have believed him, being a man of integrity and honor. He expressly says he did not see who fired first; and yet believed the peasants began.
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