General Gage's Informers: New Material upon Lexington & Concord, Benjamin Thompson As Loyalist & the Treachery of Benjamon Church, Jr.

Reprint edition of this 1932 work by the most important historian of the events of April, 1775, the first work to draw on the Gage MSS. The work showed how Gage kept informed about American sentiments and plans, and gathered sixteen basic documents and accounts detailing the events of the day as well as a chapter on the story of Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford. The author also presented evidence that the Americans fired first at Lexington. 2005: 207 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf)