Free countries can be as miserable as colonies, chaotic or despotic or both. In a decade of pre-revolutionary complaining, the farmers of Lexington and Concord had elaborated a revolutionary idea ...

The Battle of Lexington, 19 April 1775, 1910, oil on canvas by William Barns Wollen (1857-1936) By the spring of 1775, the upheaval in the British North American colonies had reached an advanced ...

Anniversaries come and go. But the 250 th marking of Lexington/Concord is a key milestone in world history. On the first anniversary of the battle, in 1776, Rev. Jonas Clark preached a sermon and ...

THE THIRTEEN COLONIES. By Helen Ainslie Smith. ... If Massachusetts, long before the rattling musketry on Lexington Common, gave notice to the world that a new era had begun, ...

How the Thirteen Colonies Tried—and Failed—to Convince Canada to Side With Them During the American ... the Battles of Lexington and Concord officially started the American Revolution, ...

The bridge he refers to is the North Bridge in Concord, Mass., the location of the main fighting in what is known as the Battles of Lexington and Concord. For days, the British had been preparing ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, and exchanged fire - the "shot heard ...

The British were stopped in Lexington on their march to Concord, seeking out caches of weapons and gunpowder they believed had been stockpiled. As they faced each other, a shot was fired.

Commentary: Lexington and Concord teach lessons 250 years later Share this: ... American colonies would yield their autonomy to become provinces within a larger British Atlantic World.

Lexington Celebrates walking tour: April 18, 11 a.m. to noon. The tour explores the Revolutionary War battlefield in Lexington. Re-creation of the Paul Revere ride : April 18, 10 p.m. to 10:45 p.m.