As accounts issued by Whig printers address public curiosity, General Gage appeals for support from senior officials throughout the colonies. When his personal letters fail to have an effect on either public opinion or policy, Gage decides to write his own version of the events at Lexington and Concord. Loyalist newspapers are unable or unwilling to publish Gage's account so he recruits a sympathetic Boston printer to publish his narrative as a broadside. Gage's primary goal, like that of the Provincial Congress, is to consider testimony and prove who fired the first shot on Lexington Green. Everyone who reads his broadside will also hear that the bloody butchery on 19 April was not one-sided.