The Minute Boys of York Town - James Otis - Bog

Excerpt: ...had come into my heart the certainty that death stood very near. "Instead of showing that we could play the part of men, we have simply come into this town of York and put a halter around the neck of that honest man from Jersey, for had we remained at home without dreaming of accomplishing the impossible in the way of winning glory, he would have deserted from the British army in order to carry the information to General Lafayette, and thus be out of danger." "One would suppose to hear you talk, Fitz Hamilton, that the end had come