Lexington+and+Concord

Lexington and Concord ** The battle of lexington and concord took place in April, 1775. It started when [|General Gage] found out that [|**Samual Adams**]and [|**John Hancock**]were staying in Lexington and had a weapons stash in nearby Concord. Genral Gage sent 700 soldiers to arrest Adams and Hancock. The British wanted to make it their with out being comprinized, but [|Pual Reaver,] William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott rode on horesback to warn Adams and Hancock. Although only Dawes made it, Adams and Hancock escaped. When the British got to Concord, instead of finding Adams and Hancock they found muskets pointed at them held by minutemen (also known as Sons of Liberty). The leader of the Americans said to fire only if fired upon, no one knows who shot first. The minutemen retreated after losing eight of their own. The British kept marching to Lexington, and found about 700 minutemen waiting for them on North Bridge. Soon the British reatreted back to Boston. Little militias that hid in forests and fields fired at British foreces as they reatreted back to Boston. By the time the British got back to Boston they lost 73 men and had 174 woulded. The American soldiers had only lost less than100.
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