Where was the Revolutionary War?
The Revolutionary is located is in Little Yorktown, they called it the Battle of Yorktown ( Siege of Yorktown. ) It started on April 19, 1775, about 5 a.m. 700 British troops, on a mission to capture some Patriot leaders and to take hold of collections of weapons of the Patriots. Now they march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker´s command waiting for them on the town’s common green.
British Major John Pitcairn ordered the outnumbered Patriots to spread. After a moment’s pause, Americans began to drift off the green. Suddenly, the “shot heard around the world” was fired from an not known gun, and a cloud of musket smoke soon covered the green. When the meeting for giving information Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans lay dead or dying and 10 others were wounded.
Just only one British soldier was injured, but the American Revolution had begun. By 1775, mental and emotional between the American colonies and the British government. Nearer to the breaking point, especially in Massachusetts, where Patriot leaders bring together a shadow revolutionary government and trained military force to prepare for protected complaining with the British troops occupied in Boston. In the spring of 1775, General Thomas Gage, the British governor of Massachusetts, been given instructions from England to take hold of all stores of weapons and gunpowder able to reach to the Americans rebel. On April 18, he commands British troops to march against the Patriot collection of weapons at Concord. Then, captured Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington.
British Major John Pitcairn ordered the outnumbered Patriots to spread. After a moment’s pause, Americans began to drift off the green. Suddenly, the “shot heard around the world” was fired from an not known gun, and a cloud of musket smoke soon covered the green. When the meeting for giving information Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans lay dead or dying and 10 others were wounded.
Just only one British soldier was injured, but the American Revolution had begun. By 1775, mental and emotional between the American colonies and the British government. Nearer to the breaking point, especially in Massachusetts, where Patriot leaders bring together a shadow revolutionary government and trained military force to prepare for protected complaining with the British troops occupied in Boston. In the spring of 1775, General Thomas Gage, the British governor of Massachusetts, been given instructions from England to take hold of all stores of weapons and gunpowder able to reach to the Americans rebel. On April 18, he commands British troops to march against the Patriot collection of weapons at Concord. Then, captured Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington.