[NEWSPAPERS]. [LEXINGTON AND CONCORD TESTIMONIES]. Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet or, The General Advertiser. Vol. IV No. 186. Philadelphia: May 15, 1775. 4pp. 18 3/4 x 12". CONTAINING EYE-WITNESS TESTIMONIES FROM LEXINGTON AND CONCORD, P2-3. Reproducing numerous personal testimonies from one of the most important events in American History, including the narratives of both militiamen and onlookers, "it being of the greatest importance, that an early, true, and authentic account of this inhuman proceeding should be known." The Colonial accounts are unified in their presentation of events, alleging that the British Regulars under Col. Francis Smith had fired upon them unprovoked: "I Elijah Sanders...do further testify and declare, that I was on Lexington Common the morning of the 19th April aforesaid, having been dismissed by the Officers above mentioned, and saw a large body of regular troops advancing towards Lexington Company, many of whom were then dispersing. I heard one of the regulars, whom I took to be an Officer, say "damn them, we will have them," then immediately the regulars shouted aloud, run and fired on the Lexington Company, which did not fire a gun before the regulars discharged on them..." The testimonies are followed by a message from John Warren—who sent Paul Revere on his famous midnight ride—to the inhabitants of Great Britain, informing them of "the alarming occasion." Historians remain uncertain whether the Colonists present an accurate account. The British troops under Gage claimed the minutemen fired first, while certain historians have suggested the potential of multiple simultaneous shots, or shots fired by an onlooker. 

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