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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.
The towns of Concord and Lexington, Massachusetts, are the site of Minute Man National Historical Park, a park governed by the National Park Service. [1] The most highly attended event in the park is the annual reenactment of the first shots of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, [2] performed by the Lexington Minute Men Company and His Majesty's Tenth Regiment of Foot.
The 1836 obelisk with The Minute Man in the background on the other side of the Concord River. In 1825, the Bunker Hill Monument Association donated $500 (equivalent to $13,460 in 2023) to Concord to build a monument to the Battle of Concord. [18] The original plan was to place the monument "near the town pump" in Concord. [19]
A historical reenactment of the Battle of Lexington takes place on the Battle Green every year on Patriots' Day as part of the Patriots' Day celebrations. Another important historical monument is the Revolutionary Monument, the nation's oldest standing war memorial (completed on July 4, 1799) and the gravesite of those colonists slain in the ...
Concord (/ ˈ k ɒ ŋ k ər d /) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.In the 2020 census, the town population was 18,491. [2] The United States Census Bureau considers Concord part of Greater Boston.
An African American Union soldier of the American Civil War, seated, in a studio portrait, circa 1863. Credit - Getty Images. O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day ...
President-elect Donald Trump rolled out five key picks for ambassadorships in Japan, the Dominican Republic, Austria, Luxembourg and Uruguay on Monday as he continues to fill out his incoming ...
Credit - Top row: Marco Di Marco—AP; Sofiia Gatilova—Reuters; Leo Correa–AP; Amr Alfiky—Reuters; John Moore—Getty Images; Bottom row: Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images; Jerome Brouillet ...