tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post1450543289730048817..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: “Several Men killed and wounded, by the Rebels”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-16710755252974168782009-07-16T23:23:44.472-05:002009-07-16T23:23:44.472-05:00Sticking up for Gage, I'll point out generals ...Sticking up for Gage, I'll point out generals often minimize casualty figures or exaggerate enemy casualties. It was a common belief among British colonials were scalping.<br /><br />As for Gage's complaints of colonists using skirmishing tactics, Gage can blame himself for sending cannon for support. <br />Until artillery arrived the militia were generally fighting in formations. Once the artillery arrived it was suicidal. Formed militia tried to contest the way in Cambridge but were quickly scattered by artillery.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-5772539287897883452009-04-15T10:21:00.000-05:002009-04-15T10:21:00.000-05:00The British government press repeated Gage’s claim...The British <I>government</I> press repeated Gage’s claim of a victory. But there were also printers opposed to the government in power, or skeptical of it, and they carried a range of reports from America, including the Massachusetts Provincial Congress’s dispatch about the army committing atrocities and the provincial militia winning. <br /><br />A rudimentary sense of the value of a free press had become part of British-American values by this period, so we can often see both sides of a debate in the papers. (Alas, I don’t know of a more comprehensive British newspaper database easily accessible from this side the water.)J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-39787289681003497652009-04-15T09:37:00.000-05:002009-04-15T09:37:00.000-05:00This is pretty awesome and very enlightening. Natu...This is pretty awesome and very enlightening. Naturally, the British press listed it as a British victory.Robert S. Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208771657848284055noreply@blogger.com