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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.
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.
Concord's North Bridge, where on April 19, 1775, colonial commanders ordered militia men to fire back at British troops for the first time.British colonial militia and minutemen killed two regular army soldiers and wounded eight more, one mortally, at the North Bridge Fight.
The Minute Man [note 1] is an 1874 sculpture by Daniel Chester French in Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts.It was created between 1871 and 1874 after extensive research, and was originally intended to be made of stone.
The Culpeper Minutemen fought for the colonial side in the first year of the American Revolution and are remembered for their company flag: a white banner depicting a rattlesnake, featuring the phrases "Liberty or Death" and "Don't Tread on Me". At the time, Culpeper was considered frontier territory.
Colonial militia reenactors march to their positions to take on the British regulars as they take part in the Battle Road at Minute Man National Historical Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, on April ...
The North Bridge, often colloquially called the Old North Bridge, is a historic site in Concord, Massachusetts, spanning the Concord River.On April 19, 1775, the first day of the American Revolutionary War, provincial minutemen and militia companies numbering approximately 400 engaged roughly 90 British Army troops at this location.
The Minutemen and militia from Concord, Acton, Lincoln and a handful of Westford Minutemen, advanced in column formation, two by two, led by Major Buttrick, Lt. Col. Robinson, [77] then Capt. Davis, [78] on the light infantry, keeping to the road, since it was surrounded by the spring floodwaters of the Concord River. [79]