Harold Murdock’s “The Nineteenth Of April 1775”
Forty years ago a Boston banker suggested that the Battle of Lexington had become a myth, and later evidence proves him right
August 1959 | Volume 10, Issue 5
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EmailHarold Murdoch became the leading American authority on Hugh, Earl Percy, who commanded the brigade that Gage sent out to rescue the British companies resisted by the minutemen. He wrote two delightful antiquarian reconstructions of Lord Percy as a man. Continuing his searching probes into the local military origins of the Revolution in Massachusetts, he published, in 1927, some invaluable notes and queries on the Battle of Bunker Hill. In 1934, this banker son of a Boston clergyman died at the age of 73, having written probably the most forceful single revision of a major episode in American history.
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