The story of Patriots' day, Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775; (1895)
Varney, George Jones, 1836-1901. [from old catalog] · Boston, Lee and Shepard · leaf 70
The Provincials left the high grounds 1 Ensign De Berniere, who had made explorations and diagrams of the townsabout Boston, and was the guide of the British on this occasion, says that Cap-tain Laurie was attacked by about fifteen thousand rebels at the bridge ; andyet they let Captain Parsons,… … THE BRITISH RETREAT 5/ near the North Bridge and went across the fields andpastures (the Great Fields) to the Bedford road,which came in from the north-east at Merriams Cor-ner, a mile or more from the centre. Here they werejoined by the Reading minute-men under Major Brooks(afterwards governor) ;…
