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The conn try people immediately lined the roads, which are fecurcd with hone walls, and theirnnmbcrs hourly mcreahng, they annoyed the regulars exceedingly, v, ho halted but two or three times, andthen in open plains for a few minutes.A confidcrable body of the provincials had formed an ambufcade, near Cambridge, for the troops in their return ; but the bridge having been deftroyed by the firft brigade ’in their march out, the troops took their route through Charlcllown, ami by that means avoided a total overthrow. The number of the regulars, when the twobrigades joined | is fiuo to have been at lead1800. It does not appear tha£ they were attacketLhy more than 600 provincials,till they got near to Charlcilown, when a
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Williamsburg Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia, US
Fri, May 12, 1775
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