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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 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 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 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.
The fighting along the “Battle Road” grew bloody as the Regulars marched from Concord towards Lexington and back to Boston. But the bloodiest and fiercest fighting took place in Menotomy (modern-day Arlington) along modern-day Massachusetts Avenue.
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.
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 Battle of Lexington, which took place on April 19, 1775, was the opening engagement of the American Revolutionary War. British troops, under orders to seize colonial munitions and arrest rebel leaders, clashed with militiamen in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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.