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Lexington and Concord
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  • It is a scene out of Lexington and Concord, as Confederate sharpshooters take aim.†  (source)
  • So it was at Lexington and Concord.†  (source)
  • All this started up since [the] 19th [of] April [since Lexington and Concord].†  (source)
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  • Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill had just been the beginning.  (source)
    Lexington and Concord = the first and second battles of the American Revolution (1775)
  • By the time the first news of Lexington and Concord arrived, it was the end of May and Parliament had begun its long summer holiday, its members departing London for their country estates.†  (source)
  • That was when the first battle broke out between British and American troops, in and around the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord.  (source)
  • It had been John Adams, in the aftermath of Lexington and Concord, who rose in the Congress to speak of the urgent need to save the New England army facing the British at Boston and in the same speech called on Congress to put the Virginian George Washington at the head of the army.†  (source)
  • In April, when the call for help first went out after Lexington and Concord, militia and volunteer troops from the other New England colonies had come by the thousands to join forces with the Massachusetts regiments—1,500 Rhode Islanders led by Nathanael Greene, 5,000 from Connecticut under the command of Israel Putnam.†  (source)
  • Earlier, in April, when news came of Lexington and Concord, John, who was at home at the time, had saddled his horse and gone to see for himself, riding for miles along the route of the British march, past burned-out houses and scenes of extreme distress.†  (source)
  • In May 1775, hearing the news of Lexington and Concord, he had set off on foot with little more than the clothes on his back, his fife protruding from a front pocket.†  (source)
  • By the time he returned for the Second Continental Congress, in late spring 1775, a month after Lexington and Concord, Philadelphia had become the capital of a revolution.†  (source)
  • In the tense days following the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, the young couple packed what little they could carry and slipped out of Boston in disguise.†  (source)
  • From the day he saw with his own eyes what the British had done at Lexington and Concord, Adams failed to understand how anyone could have any misconception or naïve hope about what to expect from the British.†  (source)
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