Lexington and Concord with Pictures

Heidi also gave us a play-by-play of the events that happened at Lexington and Concord. On April 19, 1775, the British had to walk 12 miles into Lexington, and were on their way to Concord, when all 700 of them met with only 77 Minute Men. Minute Men were untrained soldiers that had to be ready on a minute's notice. Instead of walking by the Minute Men, who, obviously, posed no threat to the British, without a command, some British troops fired. Holding true to their orders, the Minute Men did not respond. Through this fire, eight of the Minute Men were killed, and ten others were wounded. After this bout of manslaughter, the British continued on to Concord. Word spread all throughout Lexington and Concord, though, that the British had fired at these poor Minute Men, so all throughout the area, more and more Minute Men troops were called to get revenge on the British. When the British were marching on the road to Concord, they didn't know that hiding in the bushes on the sides of the roads, their enemies awaited them outnumbered three Minute Men to one British soldier. The unsuspecting British were soon caught in a flurry of shots from the Minute Men. The British tried going into the woods to find the Minute Men, but they shot them before they got too close. This slaughter continued well into the night.

Meanwhile, Paul Revere and William Doss were trying to warn the citizens of Concord that the Regulars were coming. But they got stopped on the way by a British patrol who asked them what they were doing. William Doss pretended to be drunk and evaded capture, but Paul Revere's horse was taken away, and he was held for a few hours until he managed to convince the British of his innocence. Paul Revere and William Doss ran into the town of Concord, and alerted the townsfolk that the Regulars were coming to Concord.
At Miriam's Corner, a place where many roads intersected, the British and the Minute Men came together in terrible bloodshed. Legend has it that seven British soldiers were so afraid of the Minute Men that they came up to a woman working in her fields outside of the fighting and surrendered to her.