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The statue is 7 feet (2.1 meters) tall and depicts a minuteman at the Battle of Concord. It is, perhaps, a portrait of Isaac Davis , [ note 4 ] an officer who died in the battle. [ 38 ] The farmer-turned-soldier is shown trading his plow for a musket [ note 5 ] and stepping away from his private life toward the impending battle. [ 25 ]
The Green is also where the Captain Parker Statue by Henry Hudson Kitson is located. Park visitor centers are located at the hill overlooking the North Bridge and along Battle Road. The main visitor center, on Route 2A/Battle Road, features a 25-minute multi-media show, "Road to Revolution" that gives a good introduction to the Lexington ...
Minutemen provided a highly mobile, rapidly deployed force that enabled the colonies to respond immediately to military threats. They were an evolution from the prior colonial rapid-response units. [2] The minutemen were among the first to fight in the American Revolution. Their teams constituted about a quarter of the entire militia.
French was born on April 20, 1850, in Exeter, New Hampshire, the son of Anne Richardson (1811–1856), daughter of William Merchant Richardson (1774–1838), chief justice of New Hampshire, and of Henry Flagg French (1813–1885), a lawyer, judge, Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary, and author of a book that described the French drain. [1]
The Minutemen - The First Fight: Myths & Realities of the American Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Pergamon-Brassey's International Defense Publishers, Inc. Proceedings of Lexington Historical Society and Papers Relating to the History of the Town Read by Some of the Members. Lexington, MA: Lexington Historical Society. 1890. Parker, Theodore (1893).
The statue was the first public work of sculptor Daniel Chester French, best known for his 1920 statue, "Abraham Lincoln", in the Lincoln Memorial. Although commissioned to sculpt a generic provincial soldier, French was inspired by the story of Isaac Davis and modeled the facial features of his statue after photographs of Isaac Davis's ...
A statue of the captain of the Lexington Militia, John Parker, stands on the Battle Green. The statue is known as the Minuteman Statue by locals. 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.
Minuteman statue at Lexington At approximately 2:00 a.m., one of these riders reached John Trull's house and without dismounting, called out that the Regulars were on the march. Ancient tradition has it that the galloping horseman depicted on the Tewksbury Town Seal is this rider.