On the way back from Boston, i made Tim stop by Concord and Lexington. The first battles of the american
revolution. Paul Revere's ride was to these villa
ges to warn of british soldiers approaching to sieze arms and cannons from the colonists so that they could not resist the crown. concord was the sight of the first skirmish. the militia warned by riders from boston, including paul revere, who was captured by the british, waited on the green for the british to come. the british came to a fork in the road and then made a choice to engage and disperse the colonists... which they did after killing a few. which kind of made the colonists mad.
at lexington bridge the colonists fired on the briti
sh and killed several of them...
following this shocker. american colonists firing at british soldiers, the british troops began to withdraw back to boston... as they withdrew colonial militiamen from all over massachusetts bay began to converge on the road back to boston... eventually the continual sniping and skirmishing of the colonials disturbed the britis
h enough that they began to lose their order... until they met reinforcements with artillery who allowed the british troops
to rest a while, they had been on the march since ridiculously early times that morning. after the british troops had rested, they continued their march towards boston with the colonials harassing them.
one of my bigger issues with the museum and historical preservation at lexington was that there was almost equal if not more emphasis placed
on the transcendentalists who lived in the area. thoreau and his ilk spent a lot of time in and around this part of the country doing their thing and i saw more references to them than the battle for this little cannon at the battlefield.
revolution. Paul Revere's ride was to these villa
ges to warn of british soldiers approaching to sieze arms and cannons from the colonists so that they could not resist the crown. concord was the sight of the first skirmish. the militia warned by riders from boston, including paul revere, who was captured by the british, waited on the green for the british to come. the british came to a fork in the road and then made a choice to engage and disperse the colonists... which they did after killing a few. which kind of made the colonists mad.
at lexington bridge the colonists fired on the briti
sh and killed several of them... 
following this shocker. american colonists firing at british soldiers, the british troops began to withdraw back to boston... as they withdrew colonial militiamen from all over massachusetts bay began to converge on the road back to boston... eventually the continual sniping and skirmishing of the colonials disturbed the britis
h enough that they began to lose their order... until they met reinforcements with artillery who allowed the british troops 
to rest a while, they had been on the march since ridiculously early times that morning. after the british troops had rested, they continued their march towards boston with the colonials harassing them.
one of my bigger issues with the museum and historical preservation at lexington was that there was almost equal if not more emphasis placed
on the transcendentalists who lived in the area. thoreau and his ilk spent a lot of time in and around this part of the country doing their thing and i saw more references to them than the battle for this little cannon at the battlefield.
