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Marlborough 1775 Minuteman Rosters Edit. From the book History of Middlesex County - Vol III, page 822-823 by Duane Hamilton Hurd: On 19 April 1775, news reached Marlborough that the British Army had left Boston and were marching to sieze rebel arms at Concord. Within a few hours, four companies of Marlborough men, consisting of 190 men, were

British Casualties, April 19, 1775. Estimate by Stephen Kemble, Gage’s Intelligence [!] Officer: “We lost about 25 killed and about 150 wounded.” Kemble Journals, N-YHS, 42-43. Estimate by John Pope, a British soldier: 90 killed, 181 wounded, total 271

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Tuesday, April 18, 1775 At 10:00 pm, April 18th, 1775, seven hundred troops are awakened with orders from General Gage. They will be led by Lt. Col. Smith on a secret mission to Concord, some 18 miles from Boston. There they will search out and confiscate weapons and supplies in …

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April 19. 1775: Dr. Samuel Prescott reaches Concord with a message that the British are coming, which allows the militia to remove or destroy supplies and prepare to fight. An unordered "shot heard around the world" begins the American Revolution. British forces retreat from Lexington back to Boston and are harassed and shot at all along the

So the next morning on April 19, 1775, when the 700 British troops arrived in Lexington, they did not find the sleeping village they had hoped, instead they found an armed and waiting militia. The shots that were fired that morning became the first of the American Revolutionary War.

On This Day in History - April 19, 1775 The American Revolution begins. On this day in history, April 19, 1775, the American Revolution begins when the first shots are fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.British troops had been occupying Boston for several years by this time, but their presence was increased after the Boston Tea Party in early 1773.

On This Day In History - April 19: anniversaries, birthdays, major events, and time capsules. This days facts in the arts, politics, and sciences. Launched this day in 1775 with the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the American Revolution was an effort by 13 British colonies in …