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The Battles of Lexington and Concord was the first major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in an American victory and outpouring of militia support for the anti-British cause. [9]
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought between colonial militiamen and British Redcoats on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War.
The Battles of Lexington and Concord confirmed the alienation between the majority of colonists and the mother country, and it roused 16,000 New Englanders to join forces and begin the Siege of Boston, resulting in its evacuation by the British the following March.
American victory. The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists. Instead, their actions sparked the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
The Battles of Lexington and Concord (19 April 1775) constituted the first military engagement of the American Revolutionary War, between British regular troops and Massachusetts militia. They resulted in an American victory and led to the Siege of Boston.
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought between Massachusetts Militia and British forces on April 19, 1775. The battles followed the Midnight Rides and the Lexington Alarm, which alerted the countryside to British troops marching to Concord.
This page provides a brief overview of the battles of Lexington and Concord, the first military engagements of the Revolutionary War.
At dawn the British reached the town of Lexington, just east of Concord, where they found seventy American militiamen waiting for them on the village green. Warned of the British troops’ movements, the Lexington patriots had assembled in an effort to halt British progress toward Concord.
Often referred to as the "Battles of Lexington, and Concord," the fighting on April 19, 1775 raged over 16 miles along the Bay Road from Boston to Concord, and included some 1,700 British regulars and over 4,000 Colonial militia. British Casualties totaled 273; 73 Killed, 174 wounded, 26 missing.
More of a skirmish than a true battle, the fighting at Lexington was the inevitable result of almost a year of Anglo-American tensions, agitation by colonial propagandists, the Powder Alarms of 1774 and General Thomas Gage’s aggressive policy of raiding and seizing colonial munitions stores.