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Shotheard‘round
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enough•When the regulars approached Lexington Green, a shot rang out early in the morning and the revolution was on.
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enough•After they had what they
considered to be an easy victory in Lexington, the British marched on to Concord, convinced that everything would be just as easy there.
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enough•When they arrived in Concord, they found militia (citizen soldiers) scattered around the North Bridge.
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enough•As the militia attacked, the British became scared and retreated back toward Boston.
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enough•The way home was no better for them, as militia from along the road rose up from behind trees and rocks and fences and fired into the retreating troops.
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enough•By the end of April 19,1775,
the British had lost over 70 soldiers with close to 200 being wounded, numbers far higher than untrained militia.
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retreat• There was no fighting for the
next couple of months as the British licked their wounds in Boston and the colonists gathered much needed supplies to continue the fight.
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retreat• The colonists sent Ethan
Allen and his Green Mountain Boys to Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York to capture the lightly guarded British fort and the cannons that were there.
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retreat•As the summer of 1775 began, the colonists had taken the high ground just to the north of Boston at Bunker and Breed Hills.
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retreat•British General Gage decided
that the colonists posed too much of a threat to the British from these hills and ordered his troops to take the colonists off.
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retreat•On June 17, 1775, the British approached the hill and tried on three different occasions to take them.
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retreat•Finally, short on musket powder and supplies, the colonists were forced to retreat, but did so inflicting over 1,100 deaths on the British.
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retreat•When the cannon from Fort
Ticonderoga arrived in Boston in March after being taken from upstate New York over the winter, the British realized that they could no longer hold on to Boston.
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retreat•On March 17, 1776, the British retreated from Boston for Nova Scotia, a day now known as Evacuation Day in Massachusetts.