Lexington And Concord: Significant Part Of The American Revolution

“As we have learned from the textbook tensions between colonists and the British continued to escalate. By 1774, the colonists had begun to organize and train militias. The Battle of Lexington, on April 19, 1775, is considered the first battle of the American Revolution. Today, we’re going to try to figure out who fired the first shot.”

The Boston Massacre is considered by many historians to be the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The fatal incident happened on March 5 of 1770. The massacre resulted in the death of five colonists. British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations against the Townshend Acts and keep order, but instead they provoked outrage. The British soldiers and citizens brawled in streets and fought in bars. “The citizens viewed the British soldiers as potential oppressors, competitors for jobs, and a treat to social mores'; (Mahin 1). A defiant anti-British fever was lingering among the townspeople.     

The Battles of Lexington and Concord occurred on 19 April 1775 between the British Regulars and the Patriot Militia, also known today as Americans, in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. “The Battles of Lexington and Concord is often referred to as the “Shot Heard Around the World” and the beginning of the American Revolutionary War” (Fischer, 1994). The Battles of Lexington and Concord consisted of in four events: the skirmish in Lexington between the British Regulars and the Lexington Training Band, the search and seizure of arms, munitions and military stores in Concord, the battles between the Regulars and the militias during the march of the Regulars back to Boston and the surrounding of Boston by the

The Battle of Lexington and Concord started when a group of militiamen went out to stop British soldiers who were on their way seize guns that the colonists had stockpiled. Both sides were told not to fire unless fired upon. A shot was fired from someone in the crowd of militiamen and soldiers. Gunshots exploded from both sides. Once the first shot was fired it was chaos. Eight militiamen were killed and several wounded. No soldiers were killed and one was wounded. No one knows who fired the first

The Battle of Lexington and the Battle of Concord are two battles that happened on the exact same day, April 19, 1775. The Battle of Lexington was a small fight that started the Revolutionary War. Battle of Lexington was a military conflict between the 13 colonies and the Kingdom of Great Britain. It started with the military governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, who was aware of what the Colonists in the Province of Massachusetts Bay were doing. They were preparing for conflict and, were in possession of weapons and ammunition. On April 14, 1775, General Thomas Cage received orders to disarm the 'rebels' and arrest the leaders of the rebellion. The leaders were Samuel Adams and John Hancock who had been currently in Lexington. A

The pretext for the breakup was the Lexington shooting. On April 18, 1775, General Gage, who commanded the troops in Boston, sent a column to confiscate the deposits of arms and ammunition established in Concord by the revolutionary committees. The patriots, alerted, mostly farmers, received the soldiers by gunfire; was the first serious confrontation between the redcoats and the American volunteers. The British column had to retreat to Boston, to the great satisfaction of the Americans. It was the beginning of the armed insurrection.

When the colonists finally did show up at Lexington, Smith ordered his men not to fire until they were fired upon. On the other side, none of the British troops fired until three shots were fired that originated from the colonists in response to a British soldier that fired several random shots, most likely to force colonists to shoot first.

On the morning of April 19, 1775, about 700 British troops arrived in the town of Lexington from Boston on their march to Concord; seventy-seven American militiamen met them on the town’s green. A British Army officer yelled to the militiamen to “Throw down your arms! Ye villains, ye rebels!” (Fighting Breaks Out, n.d.). An officer within the militia ranks gave the order for the militia to disperse. A single musket shot rang out from an unknown source shortly after the militia began to leave the field. The British unit then fired several volleys at the American militiamen. Eight American militiamen were dead, and nine lay wounded when the engagement was over. The British suffered one

700 British troops march into Lexington. The British met only 77 minutemen, and at first were pleased to allow them to leave. Suddenly, from some unknown place a shot was fired, and the British opened up on the Americans. A cloud of musket smoke soon covered the green. When the brief Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans were dead and 10 others were wounded. Only one British soldier was injured, but the American Revolution had begun. At this point it was obvious to see that the British had a bigger and better army, and the American only had the militia. However, at Concord, the militia used a tactic called guerrilla. Guerrilla was a kind of tactic that utilized the geography feature to have advantage during the battles. Militias just shot enemies randomly and then they hid, so that the British troops were really confused about where their enemies were. This time the American militias were prepared, with this tactic, the Americans routed the British all the way back to Boston. There were nearly 300 British casualties, including 73 dead and 23 missing. The Americans suffered less than

The Battle of Lexington was a military conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in North America during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The year and date that the Battle of Lexington took place on Wednesday, April 19, 1775. The Battle at Lexington Green in 1775 started the American Revolution and the "shot heard round the world." The battlefield in which the British and American Forces fought during the Battle of Lexington was located in the village of Lexington in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.

On April 18, 1775, British troops marched towards Lexington with the intention of capturing the temerarious leaders of the nonsensical rebellion They intercepted rebel forces, who refused to disarm themselves of their muskets after the British respectfully told them to do so. It was not long before a battle ensued. No one is sure who fired the first ball, but after the firing ceased, one of of our soldiers was wounded, and eight of the treasonous soldiers were dead. A noble victory for the British. Afterwards, they marched to Concord where they were tasked with destroying arms the rebels had in their possession. However, they were unexpectedly surrounded by hordes of rebel scum. They fired upon the poor soldiers, who had no way to escape. They were rescued by

As tension in the colonies grew, British troops started to show more military force on the colonist. The British troops would conduct night raids, looking for any colonist that were out and preforming any suspicious activities. On the night of April 19, 1775 British troops went out on one of these night raids at both Lexington and Concord. The colonists were aware the British were on their way due to spies, so the British had lost the element of surprise. The colonist and the British troops exchanged fire at both locations and there were casualties on both sides.

In Lexington in April of 1775 the British troops and colonial militiamen kicked off the

A significant moment occurred for the founding of the United States at Lexington and Concord. This significant moment is know as “The shot heard round the world.” The British heard that the colonists had a good amount of guns and gun powder in Lexington they decided to act. On April 18, 1775 General Thomas Gage sent 1,000 from Boston. He did this in the night hoping to catch the colonists by surprise. Gage did not know that the colonists had patriots watching out for them. This is when Paul Revere rode back to town and warned the colonists the British are

At daybreak on April the 19, 1775 about 700 British soldiers marched into Lexington. They were met by a group of around 80 militiamen, lead by Captain John Parker. The British and the revolutions gathered upon Lexington Green to fight. Our colonies have kicked off the revolution with the Mother Country and we are ready for war. Over the past years conflict has been building p between the two sides and we have officially taken action but now we need to show that we are worth the fight for freedom. During the night of April 18 British troops started marching through concord lucky for us a few of our men; like paul revere spent their nights riding around warning us about the treachery to come. We, the colonists had time to gather ammunition and