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Battles of Lexington and Concord
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• 1st military engagement of American Revolutionary War
• Marked outbreak of open armed conflict
• Paul Revere’s Ride happened
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• Military supplies stored at Concord
• British were to capture Patriots gained intelligence and moved supplied
• 1st shots fired at Lexington
• British seized no weapons of significance due to no secrecy or speed
• The British had been ordered not to plunder the inhabitants or hurt private property.
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Thomas Gage
• British leader
• Intelligence may have come from Margaret Gage (Thomas’s wife)
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1st Shot
• No one knows who fired 1st shot
• Did not come from the men on the ground
• Lexington
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Battle of Lexington
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British Army in Concord
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North Bridge Fight
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Old North Bridge
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Percy’s Rescue at Lexington
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1st 8 Massachusetts Men to Die
• John Brown (rumored to have fired first shot from a saloon)
• Samuel Hadley• Caleb Harrington• Johnathon Harrington (managed to crawl
home and died on his door step)• Robert Monroe• Isaac Muzzy• Ashahel Parker• Jonas Parker (run through)
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Arsenal
• Was hidden by being buried in furrows to look like a crop had been planted
• An arsenal is an establishment for the construction, repair, receipt, storage and issue of weapons and ammunition