The Battle of Lexington and Concord
We briefly talked about this in class but the details were fuzzy for me on how the events
themselves played out, so I decided to refresh my brain and familiarize myself with what went down.
On the night of April 18th, 1775, British troops marched from Boston to Concord, MA to locate
and get rid of any potential guns and ammunition the colonists could be harboring. The news of this
began to spread like wildfire thanks to messengers like Paul Revere, who jumped on horseback to
alert as many colonists as possible that “The British are coming!”. This enabled a handful of militia
men to confront the British in Lexington early the next morning. During this confrontation, a shot
went off, but to this day no one is able to identify which side it came from. This was the “shot heard
around the world”. As one could expect, this shot triggered people from both sides to start shooting
at each other. This ended as a blow to the minute men who suffered more casualties than the British,
forcing them to pull back. The British continued to plow forward to Concord. There they began to
ransack the locals houses in search of any weapons, guns, or ammunition that they could take. By
then more patriots had entered the scene, resulting in the British becoming outnumbered. They
quickly realized this and bid a hasty, 16 mile retreat back to Boston. The British did not only suffer
casualties in Concord, but additionally on their way back to Boston. Getting hit blow after blow by
various groups of militiamen from neighboring towns. But that’s not all. Once in Boston, the British
then found themselves cornered by the Americans on all three sides, with the Atlantic Ocean to their
back.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDRSE2Euxs4
https://www.britishbattles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lexington-by-William-Barnes-Wollen.jpg
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