Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson - Concord Hymn
Today marks the anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War! On the morning of April 19, 1775, the British troops arrived in Lexington to confiscate military supplies and instead found an armed group of colonists, ready to fight. Though both sides were told to hold fire, a shot rang out. After some fighting at the North Bridge, the redcoats fled back to Boston.
Suggested reading: Howard Fast's April Morning
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