On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive, Who remembers that famous day and year.... ~~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from The Midnight Ride of Paul RevereOn 18 April 1775 saw the Battle of Lexington and Concord of the American Revolutionary War. British General Thomas Gage attempted to confiscate the firearms of the American colonists. The British were driven back to Boston, Massachusetts, thus beginning the American Revolutionary War.
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