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174 wounded. 53 missing [8] 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 were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the ...
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".
The Lexington Battle Green, also known as Lexington Common, is the historic town common of Lexington, Massachusetts, United States. It was at this site that the opening shots of the Battles of Lexington and Concord were fired on April 19, 1775, starting the American Revolutionary War. Now a public park, the common is a National Historic Landmark.
The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. British General John Burgoyne led an invasion army of 7,200–8,000 men southward from Canada in the Champlain Valley, hoping to meet a similar ...
The siege of Lexington, also known as the first battle of Lexington or the Battle of the Hemp Bales, was a minor conflict of the American Civil War. The siege took place from September 13 to 20, 1861 [3] between the Union Army and the pro- Confederate Missouri State Guard in Lexington, county seat of Lafayette County, Missouri.
April Morning. April Morning is a 1961 novel by Howard Fast, about Adam Cooper's coming of age during the Battle of Lexington. [1] One critic notes that in the beginning of the novel he is "dressed down by his father, Moses, misunderstood by his mother, Sarah, and plagued by his brother, Levi." [2] In the backdrop are the peaceful people of ...
The Boston campaign was the opening campaign of the American Revolutionary War, taking place primarily in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.The campaign began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, in which the local colonial militias interdicted a British government attempt to seize military stores and leaders in Concord, Massachusetts.
Siege of Louisbourg (1758) Pontiac's War. American Revolutionary War. Battle of Lexington and Concord (WIA) Samuel Whittemore Jr. (July 27, 1696 – February 2, 1793) [1][2] was an American farmer and soldier. He was 78 years old [3] when he became the oldest known colonial combatant in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). [4]