Название: The First Stroke: Lexington, Concord, and the Beginning of the American Revolution
Автор: Thomas Fleming
Издательство: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 141022306X
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 108
Размер: 1,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

On April 19, 1775, thirty-eight Americans formed two uneven lines on the wet grass of the two-acre common in Lexington, Massachusetts. They were summoned by the rolling beat of sixteen-year-old William Diamond's brightly painted drum. The order to sound the call to arms had been given by Lexington's militia captain, John Parker.