Eight minutemen are guarding the house where Adams and Hancock are sleeping.
He had learned also through spies that minutemen had collected some cannon and military stores in Concord, twenty miles from Boston, and only eight miles beyond Lexington.
Just as the sun was rising, Major Pitcairn marched into Lexington, where he found forty or fifty minutemen ready to dispute his advance.
When the minutemen had increased to four hundred, they advanced to the bridge and brought on a fight which resulted in loss of life on both sides.
Pitcairn ordered his men to fire, and eighteen minutemen fell to the ground.
Even in the town they could not rest, for an ever-increasing body of minutemen kept swarming into Concord from every direction.
But when they started back, the minutemenkept after them and began a deadly attack.
About two hundred of them stood guard at the North Bridge, while a body of minutemen gathered on a hill on the opposite side.
The minutemen of the Old North State rallied from far and near, as they had done in Massachusetts after the battle of Lexington.
But North Carolina had its minutemen as well as Massachusetts.
The sun was rising as the first of the British, under Major Pitcairn, entered Lexington and saw drawn up across the village green some fifty minutemen [3] under Captain John Parker.
They came to be known as minutemen, and in 1775 the Continental Congress recommended "that one fourth part of the militia in every colony, be selected for minutemen .
Shots were exchanged, and sixminutemen were killed.
Soon everything was ready, and the little band of seventy minutemen of Lexington, under command of Captain Jonas Parker, gathered on the village common.
The minutemenwere cleaning and loading their muskets; while the women filled powder horns.
When the British reached Concord they found that the stores had been removed and hidden, and a large force of minutemen waiting for them.
His command was obeyed, and theminutemen answered with “the shot heard round the world.
The British rushed forward with huzzas, in the midst of which shots were heard; and when the little band of minutemen was dispersed eight of the fifty lay dead upon the village green.
This was to watch the movements of the British, collect arms and ammunition, and see that the minutemenwere always ready for duty.
Two lights in the tower, one night, notified the people of Charlestown that the British were moving, and the minutemen on guard scattered to rouse their fellow-soldiers.
The minutemenwere assembling as fast as they could, and Dr.
No one saw the minutemen march and countermarch, and no one could hear their feet in the soft grass.
There were so many of the letters, and they were very crooked, for all the world like the new minutemen whom her father drilled on the village green when it was dusk.
At Lexington minutemen who guarded the house where Samuel Adams and John Hancock were sleeping ordered Revere not to make so much noise.
As he heard the guns of the minutemen answer the guns of the regulars, Adams said to Hancock: "What a glorious morning is this!
The minutemen stood their ground till seven were killed and nine wounded--nearly one third of their number.
Soon he heard the alarm gun of the minutemen and the excited ringing of the church bells.
Paul Revere agreed to alarm the minutemen the moment the soldiers left Boston.
Day and night for weeks minutemen from other New England colonies, and even from as far south as Virginia, marched in hot haste to Boston.
At Lexington they fell upon the ground, tired out with the chase the minutemen gave them, and were met by fresh troops from Boston.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minutemen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
