On April 19, 1775 the first battle of the Revolutionary War broke out.

By: Carter

The Battle of Lexington

• On April 19, 1775 at four thirty am Major James Pitcairn’s troops arrived in Lexington. He was told five hundred minute men were waiting at Lexington. There were really only one hundred seventy.

• Pitcairn told his men to disarm the rebels. At the same time Captain John Parker (leader of the minute men at Lexington) told his men to disperse.

The Beginning

• At five o’clock am Pitcairn told his men to march towards the town of Lexington. Of the original one hundred minute men seventy of them returned to the second call-to-arms. Forty men faced the British in the field and thirty men were in houses and buildings.

• Pitcairn saw that seventy men could not

stand up to his force. He wanted to disarm the rebels. One soldier fired a shot and the battle began. The British started to fire on the Minute Men while Pitcairn tried to get a cease fire.

The Battle

• It ended with the British sweeping through Lexington with a bayonet charge. British reinforcements came to restore order led by Lt. Col. Francis Smith. Eight Minute Men died and one British soldier killed.

The Aftermath

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The Battle of Lexington and Concord

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