First Stroke Quotes

“In most houses, militiamen received no quarter. “All that we found in the houses were put to death,” Lieutenant Barker said. Lieutenant McKenzie confirmed this practice.”
― Thomas Fleming, First Stroke: Lexington and Concord

“The Lexington company were tragic victims of one of those unreal moments when two nations are moving towards war, yet neither wishes to strike the first blow, and many on both sides cannot bring themselves to believe that the blow will really be struck, that guns will go off, that men will really bleed and die.”
― Thomas Fleming, First Stroke: Lexington and Concord