Lantern, 1765—75; hung from North Church, Boston

Tinned iron, glass; probably manufactured in England. Concord Museum, Concord, MA.

One if by land, and two if by sea ...

It was two; meaning that the redcoats would cross the Charles River to begin their march to Concord.

The Old North Church lantern reputed to have been used by sexton Robert Newman has a provenance that cannot be certified. But it has a tradition of being one of the lanterns he used.

Acccording to the Concord Museum:

The collector Cummings Davis (1816—96), acquired this lantern around 1853 with the history that it was bought in 1782 by Captain Daniel Brown, of Concord, from the sexton of Christ Church in Boston, and affirmed by the said sexton at that time to have been one of the two lanterns flashed from the belfry of that church by order of Paul Revere on the evening to the 18th of April, 1775.

Wounds [from battle] were first cleansed with lint, either dry or wet with oil, and bandaged lightly. Later they were to be washed with a digestive — a substance used to draw pus — and then covered with a bread-and-milk poultice, with oil for moisture. For the first twelve days, a cooling regiment of medicines and diet was recommended, on the theory that this lowered the danger of infection. The empiricists among the medical men of the time had noticed that a man ran a fever with an infection, and concluded, with somewhat superficial logic, that keeping him cool would lower the chances of the infection taking root.

Unfortunately, there was little or no interest in using clean bandages or instruments.

— Thomas Fleming

Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill (1960; reissued 2010)