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The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County in the colonial-era Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge. They marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Patriot militias from America's Thirteen Colonies.
April 16. Sylvester Maxwell, American lawyer and legislator (d. 1858) Charles Stewart, English Anglican bishop in Lower Canada (d. 1837) April 21. Alexander Anderson, American physician and illustrator (d. 1870) Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, British politician (d. 1851) April 22. Georg Hermes, German Roman Catholic theologian (d. 1831)
On April 21, 1775, two days after the Battles of Lexington and Concord (and well before news of those events reached Virginia), Lord Dunmore ordered the removal of the gunpowder from the magazine in Williamsburg, Virginia, to a Royal Navy ship. This action sparked local unrest, and militia companies began mustering throughout the colony.
Speech on American Taxation, April 19, 1774; Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775; Susannah Dobson – Life of Petrarch (drawn from Jacques-François de Sade's Mémoires pour la vie de François Petrarch) Elizabeth Griffith – The Morality of Shakespeare's Comedy Illustrated; John Howie – Biographia Scoticana; Samuel Johnson
Ultimately, the bloodiest fighting of the first day of the American Revolution took place at a single house as the British cleared a path for their retreat. [3] Of the 25 militia men killed in Menotomy, 10 were found dead afterward in the Jason Russell House , while a total of 21 were killed in the house or on the grounds, as noted on that page.
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
Patriots' Grave in the Old Burying Ground cemetery, Arlington, Massachusetts Patriots' Day (Patriot's Day in Maine) [1] is an annual event, formalized as a legal holiday or a special observance day in six U.S. states, commemorating the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy, the inaugural battles of the American Revolutionary War.
On April 19, 1775, Joseph Palmer of the Committee of Safety sent Israel Bissell on a ride through Connecticut [12] to warn colonists that the war with Britain had begun. [2] [13] The purpose of the dispatch was to have militias in five colonies rally to support the minutemen of the Massachusetts militia at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.