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A National Park Service map showing the redcoats' retreat from Concord. Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, concerned about the safety of his men, sent flankers to follow a ridge and protect his forces from the roughly one thousand colonials now in the field as the British marched east out of Concord.
Two series of 12 each = Twenty-four paintings of historic Uniforms of the US Navy 1775-1968 for the US Navy Department; published by the US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC Ten paintings: Soldiers of the American Revolution for the Center of Military History; reproductions published by the U.S. Government Printing Office
Citizen Information Service. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts "Minute Man NHP Things To Do". National Park Service. Archived from the original on December 9, 2008 "NPS Museum Collections 'American Revolutionary War': Riflemen". Valley Forge National Historical Park. National Park Service Museum Collections.
Meriam's Corner is a historic American Revolutionary War site associated with the revolution's first battle, the 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord.It is located, on the former Battle Road, at the junction of today's Lexington Road and Old Bedford Road in Concord, Massachusetts, and is named for the Meriam family who lived there.
The 249-year-old musket balls were discovered by archeologists doing "compliance activities" in preparation for an event, the National Park Service said in a news release Tuesday.
Nor shall peace ever be made between our nation and the Red-Coats until our brothers -the white people- lead the way. [2] This first incarnation of the militia served at the Siege of Boston and the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775. This militia disbanded soon thereafter, with some Indians returning to their homes and others continuing to ...
A monument stands in the corner plot (611 Mass Ave.) called Whittemore Park at the northeast corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Mystic Street in Arlington, Massachusetts; it reads (inaccurately as to age both at the time and 18 years later [3]): Near this spot, Samuel Whittemore, then 80 years old, killed three British soldiers, April 19, 1775.
A final possibility is that red is the primary color in the Royal Standard, the Royal Coat of Arms, and is the color of St George's cross (St George is the patron saint of England). During the Napoleonic Wars , the British Regulars were a well disciplined group of foot soldiers with years of combat experience, including in the Americas, the ...