 | Mary Mostert - 2004 - 230 strani
...defend their towns within a minute's notice of being called,"// the British went out by water, we should show two lanterns in the North Church steeple; and if by land one, as a signal."7 Revere slipped out of Boston shortly before Gage closed all the routes out of the city and... | |
 | Walch Publishing - 2004 - 118 strani
...chain. The British Are Coming! ". . . if the British went out by Water, we should shew two Lanthorns in the North Church Steeple; and if by Land, one, as a Signal " (Revere writes that if the British arrived in Boston by sea, a signal of two lights would be shown... | |
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I agreed with a Colonel Conant, and some other gentlemen, that if the British went out by water, we would show two lanterns in the north church steeple ; and if by land one as a signal ; for we were apprehensive it would be difficult to cross the Charles... 
