Forgotten history..for most.

On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops set off from Boston toward Concord, Massachusetts, in order to seize weapons and ammunition stockpiled there by American colonists. Early the next morning, the British reached Lexington, where approximately 70 minutemen had gathered on the village green. Someone suddenly fired a shot—it’s uncertain which side—and a melee ensued. When the brief clash ended, eight Americans lay dead and at least an equal amount were injured, while one redcoat was wounded. The British continued on to nearby Concord, where that same day they encountered armed resistance from a group of patriots at the town’s North Bridge. Gunfire was exchanged, leaving two colonists and three redcoats dead. Afterward, the British retreated back to Boston, skirmishing with colonial militiamen along the way and suffering a number of casualties; the Revolutionary War had begun.

April 19th, 1775. Menotomy village was on the Concord Road between Lexington and Concord and Boston. While the fighting was going on in Lexington and Concord, 5,100 militia men arrived in Menotomy from Middlesex and Essex Counties.These men took up positions along the road the British troops would take on their retreat to Boston.They placed themselves in and around houses, stone walls, fields and barns. The bloodiest fighting of the first day of the American Revolution took place inside a single house, the Jason Russell House, in Menotomy. Eleven militia men died in this house fighting British troops trained in bayonet fighting.

Patriots' Day was first proclaimed in Massachusetts in 1894 by Gov. Greenhalge, replacing Fast Day as a public holiday.


Never surrender.

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America needs that American spirit here and now.

and now we have politicians that actively want to disarm us. God save the Republic

The grievances of the Colonies were nothing compared to what we face today. Just saying.

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I have personally been to Lexington Green and the Concord Bridge. These are hallowed places in American history, and I bowed my head in reverence at each site. American patriots had experienced enough tyranny, and blatant gun confiscation was the tipping point. You want our guns? Come and get them, redcoats!

They say history repeats. I sincerely hope not.

John

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My wife worked in Boston for a while and we went up and checked out the historical sites. I tip my hat to those brave men that answered the call for freedom. Sadly, our country has changed so much.

A trip to the Boston area to see the sacred sites of the American Revolution is a great experience for all citizens of the Republic.

I had a chance to do that once saw a lot- and am thankful and glad of it.

I sincerely regret though I did not go into the Green Dragon and hoist a brew to the founders.

Ah well.. next time perhaps.

The grievances set forth in the Declaration do strike me as quaint, by comparison.

There is a cemetery next to me that is full of these brave men. Men who left the farms they carved out of what was at the time hostile wilderness, to answer the call. They fought in engagements at Mt. Independence, Fort Ticonderoga, Crown Point...engagements from one end of Lake Champlain to the other. They followed Ethan Allen, joined Henry Knox in dragging cannon with Oxen from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston. My house, built around 1800, was constructed on the spot where the previous settlement was burnt by the retreating British, my woods are full of evidence of the old settlement in the form of stone works. Amazing group of men, and that cemetery is my favorite spot to just quietly reflect. Here's one of the many buried there.

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