Post by: Ironhand on March 15, 2012, 09:14:05 AM
I especially like the 80 year old guy who took on the Brits
Pistols appear in the hands of non-militia members who engage in guerilla warfare
against the British at the start of the Revolution. “Samuel Whittemore, aged eighty years,”
upon seeing British soldiers marching towards Concord, prepared by oiling “his musket and
pistols and sharpening his sword.” When the soldiers returned,
Whittemore had posted himself behind a stone wall, down Mystic Street about four hundred and fifty
feet…. The distance seemed an easy range for him, and he opened fire, killing the soldier he aimed
at. They must have discovered his hiding place from the smoke-puff, and hastened to close in on
him. With one pistol he killed the second Briton, and with his other fatally wounded a third one. In
the meantime, the ever vigilant flank guard were attracted to the contest, and a ball from one of their
muskets struck his head and rendered him unconscious. They rushed to the spot, and clubbed him
with their muskets and pierced him with their bayonets until they felt sure he was dead….
Whittemore lived eighteen more years, dying in 1793 at the age of ninety-eight.
http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/gunstuff ... merica.pdf (http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/gunstuff/writings/pistols-and-crime-in-early-america.pdf)
Post by: Two Steps on March 15, 2012, 09:24:25 AM
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They rushed to the spot, and clubbed him
with their muskets and pierced him with their bayonets until they felt sure he was dead….
Whittemore lived eighteen more years, dying in 1793 at the age of ninety-eight.
:shock:
Al
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