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4 days ago · Musket Balls Fired in Early Revolutionary War Battle Unearthed in Concord. ... The events of that day, known as the Battles of Lexington and Concord, spanned 16 miles, killing 96 militiamen and ...
The Battle of Lexington. On the night of April 18, 1775, British troops marched out of Boston with orders to seize the guns and ammunition stored by local militia companies in Concord, Massachusetts. Paul Revere and other riders set out to warn the communities outside Boston.
3 days ago · This map depicts significant events around Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on April 18–19, 1775, at the beginning of the American Revolution. Revolutionary leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams fled Lexington to safety, and Revere was joined by fellow riders William Dawes and Samuel Prescott.
- The American Revolution—also called the U.S. War of Independence—was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britai...
- On the ground, fighting in the American Revolution began with the skirmishes between British regulars and American provincials on April 19, 1775, f...
- The American Revolution was principally caused by colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make t...
- Until early in 1778, the American Revolution was a civil war within the British Empire, but it became an international war as France (in 1778) and...
- In the early stages of the rebellion by the American colonists, most of them still saw themselves as English subjects who were being denied their r...
6 days ago · The town of Lexington was a small crossroads community of 750 people. The British forces were prepared to face 500 militia. At first, there was about 170 militiamen that responded to the initial call to arms.
3 days ago · This map depicts significant events around Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on April 18–19, 1775, at the beginning of the American Revolution. (more) Revolutionary leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams fled Lexington to safety, and Revere was joined by fellow riders William Dawes and Samuel Prescott.
4 days ago · The "shot heard round the world" is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, which sparked the American Revolutionary War and led to the creation of the United States. It originates from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 poem "Concord Hymn".
4 days ago · The opening shots of the American Revolutionary War at the Battles of Lexington and Concord —where the Massachusetts militia known as the minutemen faced their first battle—initiated a new order in Massachusetts and its sister provinces.
