Note 81 — Chapter VI · The Conflict Commenced.
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It is difficult to find any two narratives of these events which will agree in the minute details. It was a scene of awful confusion, and honest men would differ in the accounts they gave. But there can be no question whatever, that the all-important general facts are as here recorded.—See History of the Battle of Lexington, by Elias Phinney, and an admirable account of the expedition by Frederick Hudson in Harper’s Magazine, vol. 50.