Jan 4, 2010

Salem on History | Battle of Lexington and Concord

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Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
Categories: Military History
Subcategories: American Revolution, Revolutionary War, Colonialism, Colonies, Settlements, Wars, Battles
Curriculum: American Colonial History (1607-1775), American Revolutionary History (1776-1788), British History, 18th Century European History
Geographical Location: Massachusetts, New England
Date: April 19, 1775

Article abstract: The opening of hostilities in what became America’s Revolutionary War.

Summary of Event

In the early-morning hours of April 19, 1775, Captain John Parker, forty-five-year-old veteran of the French and Indian War, stood with his single company of Minutemen on the village green at Lexington, Massachusetts. Several hours had passed since Paul Revere’s word of an approaching column of redcoats had brought them tumbling out of their beds. Revere had been unsure as to how General Thomas Gage would lead his men, quartered in Boston, toward...

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Salem on History | Battle of Lexington and Concord

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