![]() ![]() "If they mean to have a war, let it begin here."Ĭaptain John Parker was born in Lexington on July 13, 1729, to Lt. ![]() "Stand your ground, do not fire unless fired upon," Parker told his men. "Throw down your arms! Ye villains, ye rebels," a British officer, most likely Major John Pitcairn, reportedly ordered the vastly outnumbered American volunteers. The moment of truth came on Lexington Common. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO ROWED WASHINGTON ACROSS THE DELAWARE ON CHRISTMAS: SAILOR-SOLDIER JOHN GLOVERĪmong other indignities, the acts closed the port of Boston, the source of the colony’s prosperity, and restricted the cherished tradition of town meeting in communities like Lexington. The colony had a long simmering feud with Britain that reached its breaking point a year earlier with Parliament's Intolerable Acts. Massachusetts was the center of the movement. The remarkable literacy of the colonists is considered a major reason why revolutionary ideals that toppled millennia of monarchial hierarchies took root so deeply among Americans in the 1700s. ![]() He reached Lexington to warn minutemen there before being stopped by the British on the way to Concord. American silversmith, engraver and Revolutionary patriot Paul Revere (1735-1818) rides to warn the people of Massachusetts that the British troops were advancing by boat, April 1775. ![]()
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