Wuchak
The day the American Revolution started
This covers the events of April 18-19, 1775, with Paul Reveres ride and the ensuing Battles of Lexington and Concord.
The Lexington engagement took place about an hour before sunrise and was really just a deadly skirmish. The strength of the Lexington militiamen was 77 men whereas the British regulars (the redcoats) was about 400 by the time they marched the 12.5 miles from Boston. Eight militiamen died in the clash whereupon the arrogant British troops moved on to Concord, which was 6.5 miles west, to search for stashes of colonial weapons. Failing to find them, they were attacked by accumulating militiamen firing from behind trees and structures, which forced redcoats into a humbling ret...