Jalen Perez-Aguilar
Mountain View High School
Abstract
The battles of Lexington and concord were the first battles of the Revolutionary War. Many events lead the defeat and the close victory at Concord. Paul Revere took a Midnight ride with 3 men he got captured, but William Dawes escaped to Lexington and warned Samuel Adams and John Hancock. The Patriots retreated at Lexington, but they formed a trap at concord and the road leading to concord. They fought the British. The British retreated and attacked along the way to Charleston Neck were they attack the Patriots with the Reinforcements of 1,400 men from Lord Percy.
Keywords: Revolutionary War, Lexington, Concord, Patriots. The Battles of Lexington and Concord during the Revolutionary War The battles of Lexington and concord were the first battles of the revolutionary war. …show more content…
The British marched on to Lexington and concord. The Patriots were not prepared for this battle but one man, Paul Revere help the Patriots greatly. The patriots Guerilla warfare, an unorganized way of fighting would lead to many British death, but with the might of the patriots they still suffered a defeat. The way the Patriots held their own. The Lexington Militia were unaware of the British plans. Paul revere rode to Lexington to tell Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Revere rode out with three men during their Midnight ride the men ran into a British patrol. Revere was captured, and William Dawes, one of the men in the group, escaped to Lexington. Captain John Parker assembled his militia containing only 130 minutemen. The men wait but there was no sign of the British soldiers so parker sent most of his men to bed but warned that they still might had to fight at the beating of a drum. Parker also send four scouts down the road. The scouts found a small group of British soldiers. Three out of the four men were captured but one man Thaddeus Brown was the scout that want captured. Thaddeus Brown traveled a short distance back of half of a mile to warn Parker of the British. When the British reached Lexington he only had about seventy minutemen with ammo Parker formed his men on open ground called the Lexington Green. Captain Pitcairn and his light infantry reached Parker's men on the Lexington Green He ordered his men to form a firing line. Pitcairn was not worried about Parker's little force. Captain Parker saw that fighting the British was a sure loss so he ordered his men to retreat. When he said this there was one shot on the battlefield, no one knew who fired first. One British officer ordered his men to fire. The patriots fired back although most men fled. At the end of the battle patriots laid dead and 10 wounded there was only 1 British soldier had a light wound. The British marched through Lexington and onto Concord. As the British marched onto concord groups of minute men and armed civilians formed around the road the British were marching on a trap was forming all around the