Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution

Lexington and Concord (1x21)

Uitzenddatum: Mrt 22, 2022

Fearful of a standing army in Boston, Massachusetts farmers armed themselves. British soldiers, threatened, marched from Boston to Lexington and Concord to seize a store of gunpowder. Armed Minutemen refused to disband, and the British responded with gunfire. By the end of the day more than 300 men had fallen in battle.