Parker’s Revenge, Lexington

“About the middle of the forenoon Captain Parker having collected part of his company, I being with them, determined to meet the regulars on their retreat from Concord,” wrote Nathan Munroe. “We met the regulars in the bounds of Lincoln. We fired on them and continued so to do until they met their reinforcement in Lexington.” Parker’s fire plunged the British column into total confusion. Lt. Col. Smith had been moving his men through the last ambush when he was struck by a round from one of Parker’s men and wounded. The exhausted Regulars were reaching their breaking point.