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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 Lexington–Concord Sesquicentennial half dollar, sometimes the Lexington–Concord half dollar or Patriot half dollar, is a commemorative fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1925 in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which began the American Revolutionary War.
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.
His farm was the storage site [2] of all the town of Concord's militia gunpowder, weapons [3] and two pairs of prized bronze cannons, according to secret British intelligence. [ 4 ] On the morning of April 19, 1775, the British Regulars were ordered by General Thomas Gage to march from Boston to the town of Concord, about 20 miles inland, and ...
Laid out in 1635, it is now part of the Concord Monument Square–Lexington Road Historic District. [ 1 ] The square is prominently known as the site of British activities on April 19, 1775, the day of the battles of Lexington and Concord , which began the American Revolutionary War , and of earlier meetings by Massachusetts Patriots , which ...
The Concord Monument Square–Lexington Road Historic District is an historic district in Concord, Massachusetts. Monument Square, at the center of the district, was laid out in 1635. The district includes a collection of well-preserved residential houses stretching along Lexington Street southeast from the square, and along Lowell northwest of ...
The network that was created allowed for planning and execution of activities when the colonial assemblies and the Continental Congress were not in session. [4] Although the committees were not started as revolutionary endeavors, according E. D. Collins' Committees of Correspondence, "Its importance as a piece of revolutionary machinery can hardly be overestimated."
Prescott made it to Concord. [6] The redcoats' return to Boston later in the day was also eventful: "The running battle back to Boston passed by Smith's house around 1:30 p.m., and a British regular who was wounded nearby was left in the care of Catharine Louisa, Captain Smith's wife. Despite her best efforts and those of Lexington physician ...