2005 Scholar's Bookshelf Reprint Edition of the 1932 edition of this 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)