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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.
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
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.
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.
April 19 – Isaac Davis, American gunsmith and militia officer (b. 1745) April 24 – Jan Caspar Philips, engraver from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1690) April 26 – Josiah Quincy II, American lawyer (b. 1744) April 27 – Peter Boehler, Moravian missionary (b. 1712) April 30. Francesco Barsanti, Italian flautist, oboist and composer (b. 1690)
20th-century depiction of Revere's ride. Paul Revere's midnight ride was an alert given to minutemen in the Province of Massachusetts Bay by local Patriots on the night of April 18, 1775, warning them of the approach of British Army troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord.
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.
The "shot heard round the world" is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, which sparked the American Revolutionary War and led to the creation of the United States. It originates from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 poem "Concord Hymn".