Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Lexington and Concord
- General Gage
- in charge of troops in and around Boston
- sent scouts to check on resistance
- Sons of Liberty had guns and ammunition in Concord
- Gage sent 700 soldiers under cover of darkness to Concord; Paul
Revere warns of British coming
- daybreak got to Lexington and militia was practicing;
told to disperse, shot rang out; 8 colonists dead
- British pushed to Concord and found nothing;
hit-and-run attacks on British on way back to Boston (73 dead, 200 wounded)
- British pushed to Concord and found nothing; hit-and-run attacks on British as they headed
towards Boston (73 dead, 200 wounded)