Why Did Lobsterbacks Decided To Burn?

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The Lobsterbacks decided to burn what was left, hundreds of Minutemen were watching and it seemed like the fire was getting out of control so we headed to Concord’s North bridge, which was being defended by Lobsterbacks. They began to fire so we fired back, and that’s when they began to flee. The Lobsterbacks were still searching for about four more hours until they decided that they were going to head back to Boston, which was located 18 miles from Concord. At that time there was about 2,000 minutemen there and more were still arriving. At first we were following the Lobsterbacks. Then a little later we started to fire at them, hiding behind trees, houses, and stone walls for cover. Then not too long later the Lobsterbacks started to

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