 | BENJAMIN AND WILLIAM R. CUTTER - 1880 - 394 pages
...the rebels endeavored to annoy us by concealing themselves behind stone-walls and within houses, and firing straggling shot at us from thence ; nor did...time perceive any body of them drawn up together, except near Cambridge, just as we turned down towards Charlestown, who dispersed on a cannon shot being... | |
 | Benjamin Cutter, William Richard Cutter - Arlington (Mass.) - 1880 - 404 pages
...the rebels endeavored to annoy us by concealing themselves behind stone-walls and within houses, and firing straggling shot at us from thence ; nor did...time perceive any body of them drawn up together, except near Cambridge, just as we turned down towards Charlestown, who dispersed on a cannon shot being... | |
 | Ellen Chase - United States - 1910 - 456 pages
...April, 1877. to this encounter Lord Percy 1 wrote that he did not "perceive any body of [Patriots] drawn up together, exc. near Cambr, just as we turned...being fired at them, & came down to attack our right Sank in the same straggling manner the rest had done before." Before reaching the Milk Row Road from... | |
 | Ellen Chase - United States - 1911 - 452 pages
...Soc., No. 3. May. to this encounter Lord Percy 1 wrote that he did not "perceive any body of [Patriots] drawn up together, exc. near Cambr, just as we turned...same straggling manner the rest had done before." Before reaching the Milk Row Road from Beech Street the redcoats were bewildered and on the point of... | |
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... take, lest the rebels should have taken up the bridge at Cambridge (which I find was actually the case), and also as the country was more open, and the road shorter. During the whole of our retreat the rebels endeavored to annoy us by concealing themselves... 