Battles of Lexington and Concord

When

19 Apr 1775

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

42.45° N, 71.23° W

Description

first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775)

1775 battle of the American Revolutionary War

The Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, were the first major military actions between the British Army and Patriot militias from British America's Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War. The opposing forces fought day-long running battles in Middlesex County in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “American Revolution – Battles of Lexington and Concord: Hostility between Britain and its American colonies explodes into bloodshed”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Der Amerikanische Unabhängigkeitskrieg zwischen dem Königreich Großbritannien und den Dreizehn Kolonien beginnt mit den Gefechten von Lexington und Concord”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “batailles de Lexington (les Minute Men, milices clandestines américaines harcèlent une colonne britannique engagée dans une opération de police) et de Concord…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “победа отрядов повстанцев над английскими войсками у Лексингтона и Конкорда”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Estados Unidos se libra la batalla de Concord”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “アメリカ独立戦争: レキシントン・コンコードの戦い。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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