Mark’s Reviews > The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 > Status Update

"Across the colony, in an image that would endure for centuries, solemn men grabbed their firelocks and stalked off in search of danger, leaving the plow in the furrow, the hoe in the garden, the hammer on the anvil, the bucket at the well sweep."

Were that many people really plowing their fields and tending their gardens in the middle of the night when the alert went out that the British were coming?