The Battles of Lexington and Concord

                                    The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, started off the American Revolutionary War. Tensions had been building for many years between people of the 13 American colonies and the British Parliament/King, mainly in Massachusetts. War erupted between Lexington and Concord. General Thomas Gage sent troops to capture and arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Paul Revere wanted to warn the colonists that the British were coming.

The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. They received details about British plans on the night before the battle and were able to rapidly notify the area militias of the enemy movement. About 700 British Army regulars were given secret orders to capture and destroy military supplies that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord.


The superior British killed 7 Americans on Lexington Green and marched to Concord with new regiments who had joined them. But American militias arriving at Concord before the British in advance. when the advance guard of nearly 240 British soldiers arrived in Lexington, they found about 70 minutemen formed on the Lexington Green waiting for them. Suddenly, a bullet went through the morning air. It was "the shot heard round the world."