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Wikipedia: The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America.
![[The first of four engravings by Amos Doolittle from 1775]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Battle_of_Lexington_Detail_s.jpg "The first of four engravings by Amos Doolittle from 1775")
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![[The third of four engravings by Amos Doolittle from 1775, depicting the engagement at the North Bridge]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/North_Bridge_Fight_Detail_s.jpg "The third of four engravings by Amos Doolittle from 1775, depicting the engagement at the North Bridge")
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from Flying_Jazz |
![[The fourth of four engravings by Amos Doolittle from 1775, showing Percy's rescue in Lexington]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Percy_27s_Rescue_at_Lexington_Detail_s.jpg "The fourth of four engravings by Amos Doolittle from 1775, showing Percy's rescue in Lexington")
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![[Percy's return to Charlestown (detail from 1775 map of the battle).]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Percys_return_s.jpg "Percy's return to Charlestown (detail from 1775 map of the battle).")
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from Flying_Jazz |
![[ Shot heard round the World, Birth of Liberty, 1925 issue, 2c]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lexington_and_Concord_2c_s.jpg "Shot heard round the World, Birth of Liberty, 1925 issue, 2c")
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![[ The Minute Man by Daniel Chester French, 1925 issue, 5c]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lexington_Concord_5c_2_s.jpg "The Minute Man by Daniel Chester French, 1925 issue, 5c")
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from Gwillhickers |
![[A National Park Service map showing the routes of the initial Patriot messengers and of the British expedition]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Concord_Expedition_and_Patriot_Messengers_s.jpg "A National Park Service map showing the routes of the initial Patriot messengers and of the British expedition")
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![[ Washington at Cambridge, 1925 issue, 1c]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Washington_at_Cambridge_1925_Issue_2c_2_s.jpg "Washington at Cambridge, 1925 issue, 1c")
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![[Francis Smith, commander of the military expedition, in a 1763 portrait]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Francis_Smith_s.jpg "Francis Smith, commander of the military expedition, in a 1763 portrait")
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![[Margaret Kemble Gage may have given military intelligence to the rebels]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Margaret_Kemble_Gage_s.jpg "Margaret Kemble Gage may have given military intelligence to the rebels")
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from Sebastian_Wallroth |
![[Thomas Gage]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Thomas_Gage_s.jpg "Thomas Gage")
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![[Daniel Chester French's Minute Man]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Minuteman_statue_1_Old_North_Bridge_s.jpg "Daniel Chester French's Minute Man")
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![[Statue memorializing the battle at the North Bridge, inscribed with verse from Emerson's "Concord Hymn"]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Minuteman_statue_3_Old_North_Bridge_s.jpg "Statue memorializing the battle at the North Bridge, inscribed with verse from Emerson's \"Concord Hymn\"")
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