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...time had come. In the 15 months since Lexington and Concord, the colonial psychology has changed profoundly. Radicals like Boston's Samuel Adams and other revolutionary leaders played a canny waiting game, delaying the call for outright independence until popular sentiment clearly swung away from King George and reconciliation. The radicals declared until nearly the last moment that the Colonists wanted only their rights within the British Empire, thus denying the Tories the chance to brand them as extremists who were misleading the people. Counseled Sam Adams: "Wait till the fruit is ripe before we gather...
April 18-19. British send force of 700 regulars out from Boston to seize arms cache in Concord. Clash with Minutemen on Lexington Green, then are turned back at Concord's North Bridge. Estimated casualties: American, 95; British...
...found that it had fewer than 50 cannons, hardly any powder, few trained gunners or engineers, little pay and no order at all. The men had been recruited from the Connecticut. Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire militia to meet the alarm sent out after Lexington and Concord. By tradition, they elected their own leaders, and many refused to serve with men from other parts of New England...
Paine did write occasionally on political questions, but it was the news of last spring's skirmish at Lexington and Concord that turned him into the fiery prophet of the new America he saw taking form. Says he: "It was the cause of America that made me an author. I neither read books nor studied other people's opinions?I thought for myself." He adds that he has not earned a shilling from the huge popularity of his pamphlet (under his arrangement with Printer Robert Bell, Paine's half of the profits was to be donated to buy mittens...
When the students of Harvard College returned to Cambridge last month after more than a year's forced exile in Concord, they found that the Yard had been significantly altered during the American soldiers' occupation. Most of the brass doorknobs and locks as well as much of the interior woodwork had disappeared from the older buildings, and almost half a ton of lead had been removed from the roof of Harvard Hall to mold bullets...