Paoli+Massacre+-+David+O.

"The enemy last night at twelve o'clock attacked... Our men just raised from sleep, moved disorderly-- Confusion followed... The Carnage was very great... this is a bloody month." On September 20, 1777, The British led a surprise attack on the american colonists in Paoli, Pennsylvania. The British were only aloud to use bayonets, for guns would ruin the point of a surprise attack. 53 colonists were killed, 113 were wounded, and 71 were wounded. There was an account of a man who was surrounded by more than a dozen British soldiers with their fixed bayonets. They all took part in torturing him. He was stabbed 46 times.