Question

We got all over the bay and landed on the opposite shore betwixt twelve and one o’clock and was on our march by one, which was at first through some swamps and slips of the Sea till we got into the Road leading to Lexington soon after which the Country people begun to fire their alarm guns, light their Beacons, to raise the Country against us.”



Who is the “us” referred to in the last sentence?

Answer 1

www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/battles-of-lexington-and-concord

Probably not the British!

Answer 2

Or maybe ”us” is the British: “to raise the Country against us.”