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The day ended with performances — Lexington’s Bicentennial Band, formed in 1974 in preparation for the 200th anniversary of ...
This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...
Hundreds gathered Saturday on the Lexington Battle Green to watch the reenactment of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
LEXINGTON — Gunfire rang out on the grassy common of this quintessential New England town just after dawn Saturday, signaling ...
The irony of the moment does not escape Revolutionary War reenactor Justin Murray, a 33-year-old eighth grade civics teacher ...
1775. Why was there fighting at Concord’s North Bridge, and at Lexington Common earlier that morning? Britain’s colonies had enjoyed degrees of self-rule, some of them for a century and a half.
When British troops went to seize arms stockpiled by American colonists at Concord, Massachusetts, they could have had little ...
Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" ...
When constituting what a “well-regulated militia,” looks like, look no further than the first armed conflict of the War of the Revolution.Learning of military ...
As they marched, their path dimly lit by torches, they heard the clanging of bells, the firing of alarm guns, and drums.
Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...
In the early morning of April 19, 1775, British troops clashed with American colonists in the fateful Battles of Lexington and Concord. It marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the ...