Note 538 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

This name, probably by a typographical error, appears in some of the contemporary accounts as Bernicre, and this mistake has been followed by various later writers. The pamphlet is called Instructions of 22 Feb. 1775 to Capt. Brown and Ensign de Berniere ... and an account of their doings in consequence of further orders to proceed to Concord. Also an Account of the Transactions of the British troops from their march from Boston, April 18, till their retreat back, April 19, 1775, and a return of killed and wounded (Boston, 1779, 20 pp.). There is a copy in the Boston Pub. Library. Cf. Haven in Thomas, ii. p. 658.