Battle+of+Lexington+and+Concord

====Prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord, America was in a state of rebellion due to outrageous taxes imposed on the colonists by King George III. The battles of Lexington and Concord were fought due to this rebellion.====

====On April 18th, 1775, General Thomas Gage received orders from King George III to have the British Military arrest the colonists who were causing the rebellion in Massachusetts. Before Gage received these orders, some colonists heard about the mission and warned the Patriots that the British were after them. Most fled to Lexington, Massachusetts to escape the British. On the night of the 18th, William Dawes, Paul Revere, and Dr. Samuel Prescott set off, on horse, to Lexington to warn fellow Patriots that the British were on the way to arrest them.====

====On the morning of the 19th, the British and the Patriots took part in a relentless battle, filled with blood, gore, and many deaths. At the end of the battle, eight Patriots were dead, 10 Patriots were wounded, and only one British soldier had been hurt. The picture to the right shows the beginning of the battle of Lexington. It shows the Patriots loosing to the British in gruesome warfare. The town of Lexington was then a small community of wealthy colonists.====

====Seeing that they were losing the battle, the Patriots once again fled from the British, this time to the town of Concord, Massachusetts. As they did the night before, Revere, Dawes, and Prescott now rode to Concord to warn the fleeing colonists that the British were on their way again, only this time, the British intercepted them on the path to Concord. The British captured Revere, Dawes turned back to Boston, and only Prescott made it to Concord to warn the Patriots.====

====The Patriots had an advantage in the battle of Concord because the colonists stored a fair amount of weaponry in Concord. For the second time that day, the Patriots and the British battled each other, this time, both sides lost a good amount of men. At the end of the day, the British lost about 250 men, whereas the Patriots lost around 90. The Battles of Lexington and Concord are very significant in the process of the colonists gaining their independence from England. This is because it was the beginning of the Revolutionary War, and a historical landmark in American History.====

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