1770: Crispus Attucks is killed in the Boston Massacre. 1775: Peter Salem, a black Patriot, fights at Lexington and Concord. 1780: Elizabeth Freeman wins her suit for emancipation under the new ...

The British were met with armed resistance in Lexington and Concord in what would be the first skirmishes in the Revolutionary War, made famous decades later by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn” ...

Fighting first broke out in Lexington (the fabled "shot heard round the world"), then in Concord. The day ended in a British retreat to Boston. But the war would be long — John Adams had ...

Historians say 18 men were killed or wounded in the battle at the bridge. The fighting that day at Lexington, Concord and ...

What happened on April 19. April 19 recognizes the start of Revolutionary War, specifically the battles of Lexington and Concord which happened on April 19, 1775. The holiday recognizes those two ...