BATTLE GREEN LEXINGTON

Here on Lexington green 70 minutemen await the arrival of the British Soldiers. It is five in the morning before both sides confront each other across the village green. The British commander orders the minutemen to disperse and after some discussion with their commander Capt John Parker they begin to leave the field. It is then as the minutemen disperse to their homes that a single shot if fired to this day no one knows where this shot came from. The British soldiers formed up in their lines three ranks deep believe that they are coming under fire and so reply with concentrated volley fire into the dispersing minutemen and the tragedy begins. This incident led to the revolutionary war and finally to the creation of the United States of America. After this incident the British continued on to Concorde where at the North Bridge they were confronted by a much larger force of Minutemen now some 1700 strong who firing from concealed positions behind walls,trees etc inflicted heavy losses on the British column forcing them to retreat back to Boston

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