All 7 Uses of
Minutemen
in
My Brother Sam is Dead
- The Minutemen.†
p. 2.3
- Some of the Massachusetts Minutemen tried to stop them there in the square, but there were too many British, and they got through and went on up to Concord looking for ammunitions stores.†
p. 2.5
- And then when they turned around and went back, the Minutemen hid in the fields along the roads and massacred them all the way back to Boston.†
p. 2.7 *
- Somebody signalled them from some church steeple in Boston, so when the Lobst—British got up to Lexington there wasn't anybody there, except the Minutemen.†
p. 4.9
- That was when the Minutemen really peppered them; they chased them all the way back home.†
p. 5.8
- Around fifty of the Minutemen and lots of British troops had been killed on Friday at Lexington or Concord, or wherever it was, although nobody seemed to know how many for sure.†
p. 26.6
- And part of the idea was to make sure that Redding Tories wouldn't be able to do to the Continentals what the Minutemen had done to the British at Concord and Lexington six months earlier.†
p. 52.0
Definition:
American militia prior to and during the American Revolution who vowed to be ready for battle within one minute of receiving notice