This week marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where Massachusetts minutemen fought on April 18-19, 1775, to defend these towns against British soldiers who tried ...

The Minuteman Statue in Lexington, Massachusetts, is meant to depict Captain John Parker, who led the outnumbered Lexington militia against the British regulars on April 19, 1775.

The town’s annual reenactment of the deadly fight between Lexington minutemen and British regulars starts at 5:30 that the morning. Mona Roy of the Lex250 Commission, which is organizing the ...

On this day in 1775, British and American militiamen exchanged fire in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. On the night of April 18, the royal governor of Massachusetts, Gen. Thomas ...

Rejecting British Authority The minute men were, quite simply, Americans, born in New England. Vast distances of time and space made British authority more of an abstraction than a reality to them.

Date(s): April 19, 1775. Casualties: 368. Siege of Boston. After failing in Lexington and Concord, the British troops marched back to Boston, which was held by the British during the war.

On April 15, the Stow Minuteman Company will once again march along the 9.5-mile route taken by the Stow colonial militia in April of 1775 upon hearing the news that the British Regulars were ...

NEWBURY – The year is 1775 and British Redcoats are besieged by an endless formation of battle-ready local militia and Minutemen. British Gen. Thomas Gage carefully surveys the enemy line, ...

Date(s): April 19, 1775. Casualties: 368. Siege of Boston. After failing in Lexington and Concord, the British troops marched back to Boston, which was held by the British during the war.