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Updated: June 5, 2025
Were English soldiers really enemies of their own flesh and blood? As they approached the common an irregular triangle of ground, with a meeting-house at the further end the alarm-drum was beating, and muskets firing; and yonder are the minute-men sure enough, running together in the morning dusk, and marshaling themselves in scanty ranks under the orders of Captain Parker.
A moment's silence ensued: the alarm-drum ceased to beat; the people scarcely breathed; the daughters wrung their hands silently, and the fire-bell called anxiously to the ineffectual engine-showers, for the flames rose higher and higher.
The alarm-drum beat in the plaza, and the long roll echoed in every cuartel. Signal rockets shot up from San Juan, and were answered by others from Santiago and Concepcion. Thousands of dark forms clustered upon the roofs of the city and the ramparts of the castle; and thousands of pale lips whispered in accents of terror, "They come! they come!"
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