Colonies
in Revolt
The
story of the turbulent years leading to Lexington Green, Concord
Bridge,
and "the shot heard round the world.”
From
Chapter 1 “Under the Lion’s Paw”:
“Many in the crowd on the Boston street
were boys not yet in their teens. They shouted, cursed, and pitched
rocks
and snowballs against the house of the man accused of informing for the
hated British customs service. Windows shattered, rocks splintered
walls
and furniture. Then a musket barrel flamed from a window, and the crowd
fell back in panic as the sound of a gunshot echoed down the street. A
hush fell. At the window Ebenezer Richardson stood with a smoking gun
in
his hands. The crowd moved back in, circling a slender form lying
still in the snow and slush. On the morning of February 22, 1770,
eleven-year-old
Christopher Seider had become one of the first victims in a conflict
that
would grow into the American Revolution.”
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