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Showing posts with label Jeremy Lister. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeremy Lister. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

“The fire then commenced and fell heavy on our Troops”

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The rest of Lt. John Bourmaster ’s April 1775 account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord , which I started to quote yesterday , didn’t ...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

The Sight, Sound, and Taste of Battle

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Minute Man National Historical Park just published Thompson Dasher’s article “Enlightened Senses: A Sensory History of April 19, 1775.” A...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022

The First British Army Casualty of the Revolutionary War

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In describing the skirmish at Lexington , the senior British officer on the scene, Maj. John Pitcairn of the Marines , wrote: …some of the ...
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Monday, November 26, 2018

“Went so far as to wound some officers with their Watch Crooks”

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Yesterday I quoted the Boston Whigs’ side of some early confrontations between British army officers and the town watch . There were, o...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

British Corpses at the North Bridge

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I’m returning to the Battle of Lexington and Concord for another series of essays. Later this week I’ll post some work by another resear...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010

“They let him pass without firing a single shot”

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Yesterday we left the Middlesex County militia in uncontested control of the North Bridge over the Concord River. There were three dead or...
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