Minutemen defined...
Item # 540431Sorry, but this item is no longer available. Please be in touch at info@rarenewspapers.com if you would like to be placed on a want list or are interested in a potential alternate issue.
May 01, 1775
THE EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT, Scotland, May 1, 1775
* Minutemen defined... Revolutionary War era
* General Gage
Page 2 has much on events in America with a report headed: "America" with a Boston, March 2 dateline which includes a lengthy address to General Gage, including in part: "...cannot but lament that while we are endeavouring to preserve peace & maintain the authority of the law...our enemies are practicing every insidious stratagem to seduce the people into acts of violence & outrage..." with so much more (see photos).
Page 2 also has a: "...letter from a Merchant at Newport..." which begins: "You may want to hear something of the state of affairs in America; then believe me when I tell you at present you had better remain in England; this country being now reduced from the happiest on earth...to a wretched condition..." with more.
This is followed by an: "Extract of a letter from Boston" which includes: "...Their appetite for fighting did not appear to be very violent on General Gage's lately sending a detachment of 150 men at the request of the loyal part of the inhabitants of a town 35 miles from hence...One of the minute-men, so called from being supposed to be always ready for action, told the Captain they should not land..." with more (see).
Most of the balance of the issue is taken up with European reports and advertisements. Folio size, 4 pages, minor archival mends at the spine, generally nice.
* Minutemen defined... Revolutionary War era
* General Gage
Page 2 has much on events in America with a report headed: "America" with a Boston, March 2 dateline which includes a lengthy address to General Gage, including in part: "...cannot but lament that while we are endeavouring to preserve peace & maintain the authority of the law...our enemies are practicing every insidious stratagem to seduce the people into acts of violence & outrage..." with so much more (see photos).
Page 2 also has a: "...letter from a Merchant at Newport..." which begins: "You may want to hear something of the state of affairs in America; then believe me when I tell you at present you had better remain in England; this country being now reduced from the happiest on earth...to a wretched condition..." with more.
This is followed by an: "Extract of a letter from Boston" which includes: "...Their appetite for fighting did not appear to be very violent on General Gage's lately sending a detachment of 150 men at the request of the loyal part of the inhabitants of a town 35 miles from hence...One of the minute-men, so called from being supposed to be always ready for action, told the Captain they should not land..." with more (see).
Most of the balance of the issue is taken up with European reports and advertisements. Folio size, 4 pages, minor archival mends at the spine, generally nice.
Category: Revolutionary War
